Technical Program Manager

Stefanini Group; Dearborn (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Stefanini Group is seeking an Engineering Program Manager to lead delivery across multiple teams in Dearborn, MI. You will shape what gets worked on, align stakeholders, and ensure delivery plans, risks, and dependencies are visible and actively managed.

You will communicate updates to leadership and drive acceptance criteria and value delivery. The role emphasizes building a robust delivery system, cross-functional collaboration with TPMs, Product, and VC&M leadership, and maintaining accurate

Qualifications

• 4 years in IT with expert-level PM experience.
• Ability to translate complex migration plans into executive summaries.
• Data-driven tradeoff facilitation between features and tech debt.
• Coordinate end-to-end PI planning across multiple teams.
• Maintain backlog hygiene and governance across domains.
• Experience with Jira workflows, epics, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Drive the system of delivery and align work to VC&M strategy.
• Establish structures for predictable delivery and reporting hygiene.
• Co-own domain backlog, PI planning, and delivery plans.
• Prioritize work with Engineering Manager input based on value.
• Ensure cross-team sequencing, risk & dependency management.
• Keep dashboards up to date for leadership reporting.
• Communicate progress, risks, and changes to stakeholders.
• Validate acceptance criteria and delivered value at completion.

Skills

Technical Communication

Conflict Management

Project Management

Program Management

Project Planning

Jira

Agile Software Development

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

GCP

EKS

Job description

Stefanini Group is hiring!

Stefanini is looking for a Technical Program Manager, Dearborn, MI

We are seeking an Engineering Program Manager (EPM), someone who brings structure to ambiguity and drives delivery clarity across teams. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, build strong partnerships with engineering and program leaders, and ensure work is prioritized and executed with discipline. You are comfortable operating at both the strategic and tactical levels: shaping what should be worked on, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, and ensuring delivery plans, risks, and dependencies are visible and actively managed. You communicate crisply by writing clear leadership updates and facilitating alignment when tradeoffs are required.

Job Description

We are seeking an Engineering Program Manager (EPM), someone who brings structure to ambiguity and drives delivery clarity across teams. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, build strong partnerships with engineering and program leaders, and ensure work is prioritized and executed with discipline. You are comfortable operating at both the strategic and tactical levels: shaping what should be worked on, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, and ensuring delivery plans, risks, and dependencies are visible and actively managed. You communicate crisply by writing clear leadership updates and facilitating alignment when tradeoffs are required.

Responsibilities

• Help drive the "system of delivery" and ensure the domain's work is focused on the most important outcomes, aligned to VC&M strategy, and planned and governed consistently.
• Establish structures and mechanisms that enable predictable delivery, including backlog structure, planning artifacts, governance cadence, and reporting hygiene.
• Challenge and de-prioritize work that does not support the strategy or agreed priorities, in partnership with the Technical Program Manager (TPM), Product, and VC&M leadership.
• Co-own the domain backlog structure, PI planning, and domain delivery plan, including scope, milestones, and dependencies, within the strategic framework established by TPMs and leadership.
• Prioritize work within the domain, with Engineering Manager input, to ensure capacity is focused on the highest-value work.
• Drive clarity for cross-team sequencing and integration planning so commitments are realistic and well understood.
• Maintain accurate internal risk and dependency registers; actively drive resolution, mitigation plans, and escalation paths.
• Keep Atlassian artifacts and dashboards up to date so domain and program status is trustworthy and comparable across VC&M.
• Provide clear and timely communications to stakeholders regarding progress, risks, and changes.
• Ensure work has clear acceptance criteria and a defined value or outcome.
• At completion, validate with Engineering and TPMs whether acceptance criteria were met and whether the intended value was delivered.
• Participate in and provide key inputs to the cross-functional work intake discovery process; cascade relevant context to all impacted functions within the domain.
• Apply and help evolve common VC&M standards for discovery, planning, and delivery.
• Ensure the domain plugs into the broader VC&M operating model using shared templates and cadences.

Experience Required

• 4 years in IT, Expert-level Project/Program Management experience
• Technical Communication : Translate a complex platform migration plan, such as EKS to GCP, into a one-page executive summary that highlights the timeline, risks, and decisions needed without requiring the audience to understand the underlying infrastructure.
• Conflict Management : Mediate a priority disagreement between Product and Engineering by facilitating a data-driven tradeoff discussion that results in a mutually agreed split between new feature work and technical-debt reduction.
• Project Management : Identify a critical-path dependency between three teams mid-PI, elevate it with a clear impact assessment, and coordinate a re-sequencing plan that keeps the overall launch date intact.
• Program Management : Orchestrate end-to-end PI planning across multiple teams by running capacity analysis, facilitating the planning event, negotiating cross-team dependencies, and publishing a committed plan with tiered objectives.
• Project Planning : Build an integrated delivery timeline for a feature spanning multiple teams or areas. Identify the critical path, buffer handoff points, and align each team's sprint cadence to avoid idle time between dependent deliverables.
• Jira : Enforce backlog hygiene across multiple teams by ensuring every epic has acceptance criteria, a target PI, an assigned owner, and properly linked stories. Use advanced JQL queries and automation rules to flag stale issues, identify unlinked work items, and prevent status transitions without required fields so dashboards remain trustworthy and leadership reporting does not require manual cleanup.
• Agile Software Development : Track predictability metrics, such as say/do ratio, carry-over percentage, and capacity allocations, across PIs. Use retrospective data to make concrete planning adjustments that measurably improve commitment accuracy.

Education Required

• Bachelor's Degree
• Listed salary ranges may vary based on experience, qualifications, and local market. Also, some positions may include bonuses or other incentives***

Stefanini takes pride in hiring top talent and developing relationships with our future employees. Our talent acquisition teams will never make an offer of employment without having a phone conversation with you. Those face-to-face conversations will involve a description of the job for which you have applied. We will also speak with you about the process, including interviews and job offers.

About Stefanini Group

The Stefanini Group is a global provider of offshore, onshore and near shore outsourcing, IT digital consulting, systems integration, application, and strategic staffing services to Fortune 1000 enterprises around the world. Our presence is in countries like the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and more than four hundred clients across a broad spectrum of markets, including financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, chemical services, technology, public sector, and utilities. Stefanini is a CMM level 5, IT consulting company with a global presence. We are a CMM Level 5 company.