ninthwave
Program Manager/Engineering
New York, New York
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 21 days ago
AWSKafkaProject ManagementAgileJiraConfluenceStakeholder ManagementCRMLeadership
About the role
- The Program Manager is a member of the Delivery team and responsible for knowing the "who, what, where, when and why" of both functional & technical details for the projects in their portfolio.
- This means engaging the key members of the project and being able to effectively communicate with each (both top down and bottom up).
- They are responsible for managing processes including scope, issues & risk management.
Responsibilities
- However, a Delivery lead should always think forward on lessons learned and how to solve issues tactically as they arise and evaluate strategic solutions for long term.
- Project Planning: o Build comprehensive, end to end project plans which span from the inception of a project through to completion. o Create Project plans collaboratively with your peers and colleagues. o Capture business facing milestones & critical path deliverables and track towards them.
- Analyze, the impact of these risks and come up with collaborative mitigation strategies to ensure they do not happen wherever possible. o Should also have the ability to document issues as they arise, implement mitigation strategies, and effectively communicate impacts on not only the project the issue is related to, but any other "knock on" impacts as a result.
- Stakeholder Management: o Providing regular updates to senior leadership within Jefferies. o Effectively manage change requests and potential scope creep utilizing data such as time, complexity & effort. o Demonstrate an ability to effectively manage down and up.
- Methodology Should be fluent in both Agile & Waterfall methodologies as it relates to project management, and they should be able to identify the appropriate project management process as it relates to the project and apply fit for purpose solutions to successfully manage a project from start to finish.
- Clear and defined leadership - ability to take charge, own a deliverable and carry it through ideation to deployment
- Identifying, scoping & developing ways to improve the delivery capability of teams
- Ability to quickly identify, manage risks and issues, resolving them at the lowest level and escalating /communicating approach when needed to the appropriate individuals
- o Build comprehensive, end to end project plans which span from the inception of a project through to completion. o Create Project plans collaboratively with your peers and colleagues. o Capture business facing milestones & critical path deliverables and track towards them.
- o The Program Manager should always have a mind on improving the capability of a team to deliver.
Nice to have
- Experience in either an agile or iterative development workstream, with an ability to apply best practices from Waterfall, sAFE, etc. when & where needed
Skills
- A proven track record of delivering complex products that include CRM and / or Reporting deliveries.
- Leading teams through feature estimation and other standard SDLC ceremonies / practices
- Understanding impacts across Madison & bringing teams together to work collaboratively
- Prior experience in Financial Services software development projects
- Proven track record of successful delivery of complex, cross workstream dependent projects
- Experience with Atlassian stack as well as industry best of breed tools - examples include:
- Jira, Confluence, Structure, EazyBI, Microsoft Suite
- Experience with AWS technology stack and Kafka are preferred
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