Senior Manager, Program Delivery

Jobtailor; Colorado; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Colorado is seeking a senior program and portfolio delivery leader to guide cross-functional initiatives across technology and business domains. You will own governance, risk, and executive reporting, aligning delivery with strategy and budgets.

You will partner with Release Train Engineers and SAFe practices, optimize planning, and drive early risk mitigation while communicating clearly with C-level stakeholders and with agile teams across distributed delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Provide delivery oversight of the technology portfolio, maintaining an accurate, structured view of initiatives, milestones, priorities, and delivery health.
• Ensure leaders have a trusted narrative of what is in flight, why it matters, where it is at risk, and what decisions are needed.
• Facilitate cross-functional planning and portfolio reviews to ensure realistic timelines, alignment to strategy, delivery readiness, and informed prioritization decisions.
• Drive intake and prioritization of new requests in partnership with business and technology stakeholders.
• Oversee execution of initiatives across the portfolio, proactively addressing ambiguity, obstacles, and misalignment that threaten delivery outcomes.
• Act as a senior delivery leader on key programs within the portfolio, bringing disciplined program management across scope, schedule, milestones, risks, financials, governance, and stakeholder communication.
• Partner with the Release Train Engineer and other ART participants to strengthen coordination across agile teams, improve execution visibility, and support effective planning and follow-through across the ART.
• Help ensure dependencies, sequencing, risks, and execution issues across agile teams are identified early, made visible, and actively managed to support better delivery predictability.
• Identify, track, and actively drive resolution of dependencies across programs, projects, agile teams, vendors, and stakeholders.
• Surface and manage portfolio-level risks and issues, escalating early with clear context, business impact, and recommended response options.
• Provide accurate, business-relevant portfolio reporting, dashboards, and executive updates that reflect delivery reality and support informed decision-making.
• Oversee portfolio financials and resource utilization, including budget performance, forecasting, contractor capacity, and alignment of staffing to portfolio needs.
• Lead and support delivery roles including Program Managers, Project Managers, Scrum Masters, and Coordinators, ensuring effective staffing, clarity of expectations, and delivery support.
• Drive continuous improvement in delivery operations, governance adherence, and use of tools and processes based on data, outcomes, and stakeholder feedback.

Skills

Portfolio delivery

SAFe/agile

Executive reporting

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Budget and forecasting

Vendor coordination

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business/IT

Tools

Jira

ServiceNow

PMO tools

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Provide delivery oversight of the technology portfolio, maintaining an accurate, structured view of initiatives, milestones, priorities, and delivery health.
• Ensure leaders have a trusted narrative of what is in flight, why it matters, where it is at risk, and what decisions are needed.
• Facilitate cross-functional planning and portfolio reviews to ensure realistic timelines, alignment to strategy, delivery readiness, and informed prioritization decisions.
• Drive intake and prioritization of new requests in partnership with business and technology stakeholders.
• Oversee execution of initiatives across the portfolio, proactively addressing ambiguity, obstacles, and misalignment that threaten delivery outcomes.
• Act as a senior delivery leader on key programs within the portfolio, bringing disciplined program management across scope, schedule, milestones, risks, financials, governance, and stakeholder communication.
• Partner with the Release Train Engineer and other ART participants to strengthen coordination across agile teams, improve execution visibility, and support effective planning and follow-through across the ART.
• Help ensure dependencies, sequencing, risks, and execution issues across agile teams are identified early, made visible, and actively managed to support better delivery predictability.
• Identify, track, and actively drive resolution of dependencies across programs, projects, agile teams, vendors, and stakeholders.
• Surface and manage portfolio-level risks and issues, escalating early with clear context, business impact, and recommended response options.
• Provide accurate, business-relevant portfolio reporting, dashboards, and executive updates that reflect delivery reality and support informed decision-making.
• Oversee portfolio financials and resource utilization, including budget performance, forecasting, contractor capacity, and alignment of staffing to portfolio needs.
• Lead and support delivery roles including Program Managers, Project Managers, Scrum Masters, and Coordinators, ensuring effective staffing, clarity of expectations, and delivery support.
• Drive continuous improvement in delivery operations, governance adherence, and use of tools and processes based on data, outcomes, and stakeholder feedback.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in technology program and portfolio delivery management, with a proven track record of leading complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong experience overseeing traditional program/project delivery, including program plans, milestone management, governance, risk and issue management, financials, and executive reporting.
• Meaningful experience operating in agile / SAFe environments at a portfolio, ART, or multi-team level, with the ability to improve coordination and execution across teams.
• Strong organizational and communication skills, with the ability to adapt to diverse stakeholders, manage conflict, and proactively resolve issues.
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities including relationship building, negotiation, influence, and facilitation across business and technical teams.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization, including C-level executives.
• Experience delivering initiatives using both waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Deep understanding of governance frameworks, intake and prioritization processes, and delivery operations.
• Proficiency in financial planning, forecasting, and vendor coordination, including budget tracking and resource onboarding/offboarding.
• Preferred experience serving in, partnering closely with, or leading alongside Release Train Engineer / ART-level agile delivery roles.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., PMP, PgMP, SAFe, ITIL).
• Experience working within Strategic Planning Office (SPO) or PMO environments.
• Familiarity with enterprise tools such as Jira and ServiceNow systems.
• Exposure to release management, IT operations, and support performance metrics.
• Experience supporting complex portfolios with significant cross-team interdependencies, governance needs, and executive visibility requirements.
• Background in managing global delivery portfolios and coordinating across distributed teams.

Certifications & Qualifications

• PMP
• PgMP
• SAFe
• ITIL