Program Manager Backfill (Addison, CLT, JC)

The Matlen Silver Group, Inc.; Addison (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Matlen Silver Group, Inc. is looking for an experienced Program Manager to plan, coordinate, and deliver multiple Agile projects across teams and time zones in a banking context. You will drive governance, risk and dependency management, and ensure alignment with scope, schedule, and cost.

Responsibilities include facilitating ceremonies, guiding backlogs, and enabling lean-agile practices to mature enterprise agility and cross-organizational collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience with Jira for delivery coordination and reporting.
• Proficiency in Tableau or similar reporting tools.
• Experience with enterprise program tools (e.g., PPRT) and governance.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates and facilitates delivery routines (kick-offs, status reviews, stakeholder meetings).
• Plans delivery and dependencies across multiple teams.
• Manages risks, impediments, and dependencies for deliverables.
• Ensures compliance and end-to-end visibility into project health.
• Guides intake process, backlog health, and Agile ceremonies.
• Supports resource planning and cross-team collaboration.

Skills

Agile Coach

Tools

Jira

Tableau

PPRT

Job description

Location Texas, United States Sector Banking

Job Description

The Program Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivery of defined deliverables which usually requires engagement from multiple Agile teams across multiple projects, programs and time zones. To be successful in this role, the candidate should be understanding the entire Agile Solution process, to learn, implement, and mature Lean-Agile principles and practices.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates and facilitates routines to support delivery -e.g. kick-offs, status reviews, stakeholder meetings, change controls, tollgates, etc.
• Plans and coordinates delivery and dependencies with across multiple teams.
• Facilitates dependency management/risk management /impediment removal for the defined deliverables.
• Ensuring compliance to standards and providing end-to- end visibility into the health of the project, program and associated deliverables.
• This role ensures execution and delivery meets the clients expectations in terms of the functionality, quality, timeline and cost. They facilitate sync points across multiple organizations to enable delivery
• Provide guidance about how to create and manage an intake process, healthy backlog, and how to facilitate valuable Agile ceremonies.
• Help teams to optimize implementation of Enterprise Agile standards and practices.
• Help to identify and resolve organizational impediments that impact team maturity and performance.
• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution across teams and with stakeholders, including external teams, business partners, and other Agile Release Trains/programs.
• Influence and guide business and technology leaders on changes that enable Agility.
• Governance Stakeholder Management - Contributes to artifacts needed for governance forums. Understands stakeholder expectations and creates regular updates to keep stakeholders informed.
• Facilitates dependency management/risk management /impediment removal for the defined deliverables.
• Supports resource planning.

Primary Skill

Agile Coach

Secondary Skill

Agile tools (Jira)

Required Qualifications

• Jira
• Tableau (or other reporting tools, including report development)
• Enterprise program and project tool (ex: PPRT)

Desired Qualifications

• Leadership Presence
• Excellent presentation skills
• Excel and PPT - advanced level
• Work independent
• Shows initiative