REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum of 8+ years’ experience in a program management position from large scale enterprise level environments
• Experience working with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools such as Jira, AHA, and Confluence
• Experience with other agile methodologies, LEAN, Kanban, XP Programming etc.
• Relevant certification preferred
• 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
• Strong and natural problem solving ability; comfortable with data and ambiguity
  Job Type: Contract
  Pay: $65.00 - $80.00 per hour

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Experience:

• program management: 9 years (Required)
• Application Lifecycle Management (ALM): 9 years (Required)
• AHA: 9 years (Required)
• agile methodologies: 9 years (Required)
• Kanban: 9 years (Preferred)

Work Location: Remot

• 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
• 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 asescalates 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 ow 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 ight, 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