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As a Senior Technical Program Manager for the team, you will partner with Engineering Leads to understand engineering needs, translate those needs to engineering requirements, and collaborate with all impacted teams and external partners to ensure the successful launch of many capabilities that will impact our global commerce platform. The right person for this role is proficient in technology and is comfortable with acting as a program strategist for a development team. You will need to move and adapt quickly as needs change. You are encouraged to always maintain a pulse on development progress and manage the inevitable change over the lifecycle of a project so that deadlines are met with excellent products and happy team members.
Job Responsibility:
Partner with Engineering Leads to understand engineering needs, translate those needs to engineering requirements, and collaborate with all impacted teams and external partners to ensure the successful launch of many capabilities that will impact our global commerce platform
Act as a program strategist for a development team
Maintain a pulse on development progress and manage the inevitable change over the lifecycle of a project so that deadlines are met
Deliver large, ambiguous, and highly technical programs
Be highly proactive, detail-oriented, and able to autonomously work on multiple assignments that may span the department
Dig into technical details and clearly communicate schedules, risks, status, and processes to a variety of business and technical audiences
Partner with closely with product managers and technical leads to coordinate schedules and deliverables
Be aligned with the GCI Foundational Platform, Orchestration, and Performance teams, focusing on availability, scaling, performance, reliability, and observability
Lead tech-driven initiatives to meet our 99.999% operational excellence key performance requirements (OpEx KPR)
Work closely with highly technical teams, including Engineering Excellence (EE), Platform Architecture Group (PAG), GCI Orchestration, and GCI Performance, to harden services, build architecture, ensure scaling, and create a forward-looking roadmap
Requirements:
Deliver projects from concept to completion by collaborating with engineering teams, product management, design, and other cross-functional stakeholders
Understand architectural and design specifications. Suggest alternate solutions that achieve business goals and/or drive alternate solution development via collaborative mechanisms such as story mapping and whiteboarding
Facilitate technical meetings
follow the discussions to summarize and capture outcomes
Facilitate team agile ceremonies (standups, grooming, team retrospective and planning sessions) and ensure they are effective and efficient
Track team progress against results and determine solutions to get back on-track when things fall behind schedule
Engage with the development teams to build delivery timelines of feature sets for projects and be able to sequence the work based on priorities
Collaborate with other TPMs to understand cross-team dependencies and prioritize the work to avoid impediments
Attend project meetings and be ready represent engineering teams in communicating team progress, risks, and mitigation plans
Prioritize multiple team requests and balance that against other priorities and committed work. Must understand the impact of injecting these requests to the team’s backlog
Ensure that all involved parties understand and accept their roles and responsibilities
Navigate the TWDC to effectively drive progress, even when the scope of responsibilities may be unclear
Track and report key program metrics, informing stakeholders as appropriate
Facilitate all build activities (including QA and UAT), as per plan (where applicable)
Proactively drive, track, and report on budgets
Collaborate with other program management colleagues to coordinate activities across multiple technology teams
Effortlessly sift through "noise” and facilitate discussions and activities with a laser focus towards results
Exemplify leadership characteristics through collaboration, work ethic, and creative thinking. Strive to inspire others and deliver the best possible outputs
BS/BA
Degree is required
Nice to have:
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)
Having App experience in large environment is highly recommended