Technical Program Manager - eCommerce

Client: Top eCommerce company in India

Location: Bangalore

Role:Technical Program Manager

Experience: 5 Yrs - 12 Yrs

Responsibilities

- Independently drive and manage complex development work using appropriate Agile frameworks, principles, and practices

- Lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects and usher them through the entire lifecycle

- Facilitate and manage technical project or programs, working closely with engineers, product and program managers and business operations to develop and track release milestones and schedules for the many moving parts that need to come together.

- Lead teams in establishing and following effective processes to manage planning, development, and deployment

- Represent the team’s strategic priorities and negotiate with partners across the organization to align schedules and resources

- Coordinate product roadmaps and drive teams to meet commitments bases on the plan

- Establish an effective review and retrospective approach on an appropriate frequency

- Communicate weekly updates and completion of deliverables to overall group

- Establish channels and processes for effective communication among global team members

- Foresee risks and dependencies and manger them proactively

- Lead the team to ensure that roadblocks and open issues are removed

- Ensure consistent Agile framework is applied within group

- Create and collect metrics to measure success of the program in terms of adoption of “good” agile practices, software quality, and most importantly, the resulting cycle time improvement

- Assist program management initiatives across the team. Participate in projects that help scale the group, implement best practices and improve methodology.

Minimum Qualifications

- 5+ years of program management experience with large, distributed systems

- 3+ years as an Agile practitioner, mentor and/or coach. Experience must include holding the role of ScrumMaster, or Product Owner

- A proven track record of managing multiple projects, building appropriate processes and tools, and delivering results

- Ability to handle a number of simultaneous tasks and must demonstrate a sense of urgency and ownership to drive issues to completion

- Ability to understand technical issues at sufficiently deep level to identify gaps

- Ability to ramp-up on new technologies and new service domains quickly. Strong understanding of online services and Web services technology is a core requirement

- Familiarity with metrics, operations, and the complete product lifecycle

- Outstanding organizational, communication, interpersonal, relationship building skills conducive to collaboration at all levels

- Courageous and able to demonstrated healthy conflict resolutions skills

- Great listener that helps influence crucial conversations for the good of all

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in eCommerce product/site development teams

- Experience as Engineering Manager/Tech Lead in product development organizations

- Passionate about delivering high quality, valuable software, and systems

- Engineering background or relevant degree

- Certification as a CSM or CSPO, preferably CSP or CSC is a plus

- Hands-on experience coaching individuals in Agile Engineering Practices (Test Driven Development, Behavior Driven Development, Refactoring, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery, Object Oriented Programming)

Interested candidates, kindly share your updated resume to me.

Also, if there is any queries, please let me know.

Rabi Agrawal | Lead Consultant
CareerNet Consulting, Bangalore