Program Manager Backfill (Addison, CLT, JC)

Matlen Silver; Addison (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Matlen Silver is seeking a Program Manager to coordinate delivery across multiple Agile teams and programs. You will drive planning, dependency management, risk mitigation, and governance communications to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery that meets client expectations across diverse time zones.

The role requires strong Agile practitioner skills, experience with Jira and Tableau, and the ability to mature Lean-Agile practices within large-scale enterprise programs.

Qualifications

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

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.

Skills

Agile Coach

Jira

Tableau

Tools

PPRT

Job description

Job Description: Program Manager

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

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

Desired Qualifications

• 1. Leadership Presence
• 2. Excellent presentation skills
• 3. Excel and PPT - advanced level
• 4. Work independent
• 5. Shows initiative