Job Description
Title : Program Manager
location: Piscatway, NJ/ Remote
Duration: 6 months
Who We Are Looking For
The Program Manager will be responsible for managing enterprise-level programs within the Enterprise Technology portfolio. This individual will work closely with various Project Managers, Product Owners to define the project team and assign responsibilities. The Program Manager will also be responsible for developing a consolidated view of the program, and for program deliverables including calendars, cross-project dependencies, risk analysis, stakeholder coordination, and regular communication of status.
Primary responsibilities include guiding process development at a Program team level and managing high-risk, high-impact, strategic projects across a multi-disciplinary, multi-function group of technologists and business professionals. This requires experience communicating across audiences, effectively defining, and utilizing escalation paths, and updating executive stakeholders.
What You’II Do
- Program and Project Management Delivery
- Financial Management
- Status Reporting
- Communication
- Project Management Lifecycle Disciplines
- Technical Depth
Basic Qualifications:
- 5+ years of applicable program management experience
- 3+ years experience serving in a leadership role on a small to mid-sized Agile development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
- Knowledge of the Retirement Insurance domain is a plus
- Demonstrated total ownership behavior and attitude
- Advanced written and oral communication skills
- Experience across an array of business, reporting, and PM tools (including but not limited to Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and MS Project).
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, business management, project management, or a related field.
- Master’s degree preferred but not required
Preferred Certifications, Licenses, Registrations
- PMP, Program management level certifications
- Scrum Master Certification
- SAFe® 5.0
Other Preferred Training, Technical Skills Or Knowledge
- Jira and Atlassian Suite
- MS Project
- ServiceNow
Experience with Agile concepts (SCRUM, Kanban, etc.)