Senior Technical Program Manager, R&D Operations
Spring Health
SDLC
Lead Technical Program Manager
The Walt Disney Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $159,500 - $213,900 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Deliver projects from concept to completion by collaborating with engineering teams, product management, design, and other cross-functional stakeholders
- Understand architectural and design specifications and suggest alternate solutions
- Facilitate technical meetings and summarize/capture outcomes
- Facilitate team agile ceremonies (standups, grooming, team retrospective and planning sessions)
- Track team progress against results and determine solutions to get back on-track
- Engage with development teams to build delivery timelines and sequence work based on priorities
- Collaborate with other TPMs to understand cross-team dependencies and prioritize work
- Represent engineering teams in project meetings, communicating progress, risks, and mitigation plans
- Prioritize multiple team requests and assess impact on team backlog
- Ensure all involved parties understand and accept their roles and responsibilities
- Navigate the TWDC to effectively drive progress when scope is unclear
- Track and report key program metrics and proactively drive, track, and report on budgets
- Facilitate all build activities (including QA and UAT) as per plan
- Lead tech-driven initiatives to meet 99.999% operational excellence key performance requirements (OpEx KPR)
- Work closely with Engineering Excellence, Platform Architecture Group, GCI Orchestration, and GCI Performance to harden services, build architecture, ensure scaling, and create a forward-looking roadmap
- Exemplify leadership characteristics through collaboration, work ethic, and creative thinking
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience managing large-scale, strategic, software development programs in a well-established global technology organization
- Proven ability to facilitate effective communication across disparate teams
- Evidence of strong planning, delivery, and problem-solving skills
- Superb written and verbal communications, presentation skills, and meeting facilitation skills (especially when working with senior leadership)
- BA/BS or equivalent experience required
- Proficient in technology and comfortable acting as a program strategist for a development team
- Capable of digging into technical details and clearly communicating schedules, risks, status, and processes
- Ability to partner closely with product managers and technical leads
- Strong technical architecture aptitude
Benefits
- A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
- Full range of medical benefits
- Financial benefits
- Other benefits dependent on the level and position offered
- Primarily On-Site / Occasionally from Home (flexible work arrangement)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software developmentprogram managementagile methodologiestechnical architectureproject deliverybudget trackingquality assurance (QA)user acceptance testing (UAT)risk managementstrategic planning
Soft skills
communicationleadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingpresentation skillsmeeting facilitationcreative thinkingplanningteamworkadaptability
Certifications
BA/BS or equivalent experience
