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The Enterprise Architecture & Platforms Customer Service and Delivery
Team needs a strong Agile Program Manager who will lead self-organizing and
self-managing teams and programs in applying and optimizing Agile practices to
maximize program performance and effectiveness.
Responsibilities
- Operates
as a team-based servant leader who enables the team to self-organize,
self-manage and deliver for the program at the highest level.
- Provides
a Program Governance and manages the overall delivery operating model
- Manages
overall Program Budget in alignment to scope
- Drives
the program in the coordination of major feature releases and helps ensure
ongoing delivery of value to customers where multiple teams are involved.
- Facilitates
program level processes and execution, identifies and manages dependencies and
risks, as well as escalates impediments.
- Coordinates
and facilitates iterative program level planning ceremonies (such as Product
Owner Syncs, Scrum of Scrums, Inspect and Adapt, Program Increment Planning,
and System Demos).
- Manages
and optimizes the flow of value via cross-organization collaboration.
- Proactively
manages Program Risk through data-driven analytics and ongoing risk remediation
efforts
- Drives
the Product Owners, Product Managers and Agile teams to facilitate release
planning preparedness.
- Provides
transparency into the organizations backlog, providing visibility to work in
flight, aligned to progress against defined scope
- Accountable
for the overall program execution and delivery of work (schedule/capacity).
- Monitors
and reports program health (i.e., progress of feature completion, program
predictability) with the purpose to provide transparency on program delivery of
value.
- Coaches
and leads the program team in practicing Agile principles and leading
practices, identify program/team training opportunities and solution/facilitate
as needed.
- Coaches
and mentors leadership in Lean/Agile best practices and mindset.
- Travel:
Yes, 5% of the time.
Skills
- Advanced
understanding of Agile Principles and how they’re applied in workplace culture
- Strong
facilitation, coaching and mentoring skills
- Experience
leading teams through resolution of program issues
- Strong
communication, team dynamics, conflict resolution, mentoring, and servant
leadership skills
- Advanced
understanding of technology systems and the program’s ecosystem
- Advanced
understanding of lean and program budgets
Qualifications
- Minimum
6 years relevant work experience
- Experience
working with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools
- Experience
with other agile methodologies, LEAN, Kanban, XP Programming etc.
- Relevant
certification preferred