Technical Program Manager

Aroghia GRP - Beaverton, OR

Full-time - Mid Level

Beaverton, OR

About the position

The Technical Program Manager leads and directs project teams engaged in the design, implementation, and modification of technology projects. This role is responsible for preparing project execution plans, identifying necessary resources, and ensuring that projects are completed on schedule, within budget, and meet technical requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage large, complex enterprise-level program consisting of multiple agile teams.
• Responsible for managing program scope, end to end program plan and regular and timely delivery of value.
• Identify and manage scope change, issue and risk; facilitate mitigation through relevant stakeholders and governance processes.
• Support the product owner in managing customer expectations for program deliverables, managing stakeholder communications, and helping to implement an effective system of program governance.
• Define, implement, maintain, and communicate program management procedures and processes to enable work streams to deliver against the defined goals and scope on time and on budget.
• Establish strong relationships with key technical/business stakeholders and assigned teams.
• Define, implement and monitor metrics and KPIs to report project status and ensure ongoing strategic alignment with short and long-term business objectives.
• Define and manage a well-defined program management process and champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for agile program management.
• Investigative analysis on functional pain points (process and system gaps) and strive for continuous process improvement.
• Use data to quantify pain points, develop business cases, and tell the story to Enterprise Data leadership.

Requirements

• 8+ years experience in project/program management from large-scale enterprise level companies
• Experience with agile development methodologies: scrum, lean, Kanban
• Strong presentation, facilitation and influencing skills with the ability to interact with all levels of the organization
• Proven experience building strong working relationships and working successfully in cross-functional teams
• A strong history of working for cross functional data product delivery teams
• Excellent communications skills (written and verbal) and strong interpersonal skills
• Detail oriented with strong information seeking skills
• Great listening skills and openness to different points of view
• Self-motivated and collaborative with ability to resolve conflict
• Strong problem solving skills
• Advanced knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint
• Experience working with Jira and confluence
• Good working knowledge of product model
• BS/MS degree in Business, Computer Science or a related field
• Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), PMP certification or training