Program Lead

TestYantra Software Solutions; Dunstable; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

TestYantra Software Solutions in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Programme Manager to drive software delivery initiatives, run knowledge-transition sessions, and ensure the knowledge register moves from day one. You will own the critical path across multiple squads, manage gates from feasibility to go-live, and supervise capacity and show-and-tell cadences.

The role requires extensive agile-at-scale experience, governance, and the ability to communicate tough news to a client executive

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software delivery with programme-manager accountability

Responsibilities

• Run knowledge-transition gap sessions and maintain knowledge register from day one
• Own the critical path across squads, gates, and Show & Tell cadence every two weeks
• Chair week-3 feasibility gate and decide January or reforecast openly
• Manage capacity profile and release resources back to practices on schedule
• Be accountable for delivery against the committed price and delivery metrics

Skills

Programme management

Onsite/offshore team leadership

Agile at scale

Executive communication

Job description

Key responsibilities

• Run the incumbent knowledge-transition gap sessions and keep the knowledge register moving from day one.
• Own the critical path across both squads, the programme gates (feasibility, release candidate, pilot exit, go-live) and the Show & Tell cadence every two weeks.
• Chair the week-3 feasibility gate and either confirm January or reforecast it in the open, before effort is sunk.
• Manage the capacity profile (27 at start, 33 at peak, tapering through pilot and cutover) and the release of people back to their practices on schedule.
• Be accountable for commercial control: delivery against the committed price and the delivery-tracking metrics that hold it.

Essential skills and experience

• Fifteen years or more in software delivery, with programme-manager accountability for recovery, takeover or turnaround programmes under a fixed date.
• Track record running mixed onsite/offshore teams of 25 or more across parallel workstreams.
• Strong command of Agile at scale (PI planning, multi-squad cadence) and of evidence-based governance and gating.
• Credible in front of a client executive audience; able to give bad news early and hold a plan together under pressure.

Desirable

• Hospitality, retail operations or field-workforce domain exposure.
• Experience of Nintex or low-code platform replat forming programmes.