Technical Program Manager
HP
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Spring • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $145,000 - $160,000 per year
About the role
- In this role you will be an effective servant leader and coach responsible for managing an Agile Release Train (ART) in its mission to deliver value and achieve program objectives.
- This role is responsible for coaching, ensuring collaboration, and flow guardianship for an Agile Release Train (ART) of 6-10 scrum teams (~100 people).
- Prepare stakeholders for PI Planning, lead the PI Planning Workshop, organize and enable cross-team syncs, surface risks and impediments early, and enable a culture of relentless improvement so that customer value flows every iteration.
- Define the overall approach and process design, driving overall quality, transparency, and ensuring the on-time delivery of complex software solutions.
- Plan and lead the PI Planning Workshop, PO/PM Syncs, Scrum of Scrums, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt Retrospectives.
- Track Outcomes + Flow (lead time, throughput, WIP, predictability). Remove systemic blockers, manage dependencies & risks, create and maintain transparent dashboards and metric reporting.
- Mentor Scrum Masters, POs, and teams on SAFe Lean Agile principles while driving continuous iterative improvement.
- Lead teams through effective risk identification in PI Planning. Manage, maintain, and review the ART risk board during the PI.
- Create and enable a culture of continuous and transparent feedback. Drive action and results from feedback.
- Responsible for driving execution and delivery of a software feature, solution, or product.
- Serves as the bridge between cross-functional teams including Product Management, Design, and R&D.
- Perform program analysis, manage risk, identify and influence necessary course corrections, and communicate program status and activities across multiple levels of management.
- Continuously assess and improve the processes that comprise the software development lifecycle while coaching other members of the team to do the same.
- Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release, scope, schedule, and quality of highly visible, complex programs.
Requirements
- Four-year or Graduate Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Management, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
- Typically has 7-10 years of work experience, preferably in program/project management, scrum master, professional technology organization, or a related field.
- Knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) principles and practices.
- Proven experience facilitating large-scale agile events.
- Strong project and program management skills.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
- Ability to effectively present to and communicate with executive leadership
- Advanced JIRA experience including metrics, dashboards, and road maps.
- Comprehensive experience in managing development of commercial software products using agile development practices.
- Expertise in managing cross-organizational software development projects from initiation through delivery.
- Hands-on experience with developing and reporting on metrics for engineering development.
- Analytical and problem-solving experience with large-scale software systems.
- Change Management processes
- Continuous Improvement processes and leading adoption
- Kanban Principles
- Scrum software development framework
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- life insurance
- disability coverage
- 15 paid vacation days per year prorated based on start date
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Agile Release Train (ART)SAFe principlesprogram/project managementscrum masteragile development practicesmetrics reportingKanban principlesScrum frameworkrisk managementsoftware development lifecycle
Soft skills
servant leadershipcoachingcollaborationcommunicationinterpersonal skillspresentation skillsproblem-solvinganalytical skillscontinuous improvementfeedback culture