• 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 as escalates 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 flow 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 flight, 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.

Skills

• 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.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years relevant work experience.
• Experience working with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools such as Jira, AHA, and Confluence.
• Experience with other agile methodologies, LEAN, Kanban, XP Programming etc.

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $65.40 to $72.67 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.