Technical Project Manager

Talentify; Chesapeake (VA); Remote; USD 65,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Holidays & leave

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a Technical Project Manager for the Ford Credit Platform Engineering group to oversee agile delivery across multiple teams and ARTs. You will shield delivery teams, manage intake, governance and cross-functional dependencies, while driving quality and transparency across Jira, Confluence and SharePoint.

The role requires deep Lean-Agile experience (SAFe), strong communication, and the ability to partner with engineering leaders, product managers and analytics teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, or related field or equivalent combo of education and experience.
• 8+ years' experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area.
• Extensive experience using, managing, and supporting teams with Agile program management tools such as Jira, Confluence, etc.

Responsibilities

• Play the role of Technical Project Manager managing one or more teams aligned to one of many Agile Release Train (ART).
• Be first line of defense to shield delivery teams from planned and unplanned needs for various purposes.
• Collaborate with Transformation leadership team to develop Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
• Manage intake process for the program and coordinate intakes through assessment, estimation, planning.
• Manage scope change management practices and drive governance to ensure strong scope change control.
• Drive and oversee coordination of cross-functional teams involved in the transformation to support all aspects of the program.
• Maintain data sanity in tools like Jira, Confluence & SharePoint.
• Enhance quality standards to be followed across the teams.
• Monitor cross-dependency tracking with external teams and ensure integration alignment.
• Provide support to other transformational services using data available in various tools.

Skills

Project management

Agile / SAFe

Jira / Confluence

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Jira

Confluence

SharePoint

Job description

Job Description
We made history and now we work to transform the future - for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.
Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you're looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people's lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.

In this position...

• The people of Ford Motor Credit Company have a 60-year commitment to helping put people behind the wheels of great Ford and Lincoln vehicles.
• By partnering with dealerships, we provide financing, personalized service, and professional expertise to five thousand dealers and more than four million customers in over 100 countries around the world.
• The software product organization within Ford Credit seeks to deeply understand our customer so that we may provide digital solutions that improve their ability to finance and own Ford and Lincoln vehicles.
• Ford Credit Platform Engineering is looking for a Technical Project Manager specializing in management of delivery of work through sprints and Program Increments.
• You will work on managing the governance and maintaining control of highly complex, cross-team, multi-project programs.
• You will help delivery teams be laser focused on delivering work with quality while maintaining the control of noise in the ecosystem and minimize the affect of it on the core team delivering the work.
• The primary customers for the role are engineering leaders, product managers, developers, and analytics teams within Ford Credit.
• The candidate will have a deep understanding of Lean-Agile program management practices (including SAFe) and must have managed key ownership of processes in practices.

Responsibilities

• Play the role of "Technical Project Manager" managing one or more teams aligned to one of many Agile Release Train (ART)
• Be first line of defense to shield delivery teams from planned and unplanned needs for various purposes.
• Collaborate with Transformation leadership team to develop Objective and Key Results (OKR's)
• Manage intake process for the program and coordinate intakes through the phases of assessment, estimation & planning.
• Manage scope change management practices and drive governance to ensure strong scope change control.
• Drive and oversee coordination of cross-functional teams involved in the transformation to support all aspects of the program.
• Manage the weekly forums of health measurement, dashboard generation, status reporting, risk monitoring, issue escalations, process audit & reporting.
• Maintain the data sanity in tools like Jira, Confluence & SharePoint.
• Enhance quality standards to be followed across the teams.
• Be first line of integration with teams external to the program for cross dependency tracking e.g. with Insurance, Integration Services.
• Monitor process adherence & activate remediation protocols where needed.
• Provide support to other transformational services e.g. Organization Change Management, User Training, Knowledge Retention etc. using the data available in various tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or relevant area of study or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• 8+ years' experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area
• Extensive experience using, managing, and supporting teams with Agile program management tools, such as Jira, Confluence, etc.

Even better, you may have...

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related area
• Certification in Project or Program Management such as PMP, etc.
• Certification in Lean-Agile practices, such as Certified Scrum Master or SAFe.
• Experience managing complex programs with solutions relying on cloud-native technologies.
• 12+ years' experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area
• Extensive experience managing programs supporting Platform service-oriented or SaaS based solutions.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills with the ability to influence the enterprise.
• Experience of administration and control of use access, workflows, trackers in JIRA and Confluence

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company.

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder...or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a salary grade 5 and ranges from $65,100-$109,300.

This position is a salary grade 6 and ranges from $74,300-$124,500.

This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $86,600-$144,900.

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $99,100-$166,200.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

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