Program Manager - BFS

This role is exclusively for diversity candidates only

Responsibilities :

- Plan, execute, and deliver projects from inception to completion related to a known technology, product, or program and drive multiple simultaneous projects to deliver engineering work across the portfolio in our scrum execution model

- In this role, you get to dive as deep as you want into the tech stack, the integration patterns, the organizational capabilities, and the company wide assets that can be leveraged to provide technical solutions to customer problems.

- Proactively manage the end-to-end delivery of engineering work through the organization and all dependent organizations, reporting out progress, ensuring dependencies are covered, overseeing the gaps between teams, processes, and systems, while removing all blocking issues leading to a successful delivery

- Work with 2-3 scrum teams and have the technical credibility to drive constructive discussions with the engineering teams (you may be embedded within the scrum team or your work may be cross-cutting across products, multiple scrum teams, and/or technologies)

- Clearly articulate scope, timelines, dependencies, owners, actions, risks, and mitigation.

- You will contribute to the strategies, design choices, and even the cloud infrastructure necessary to build comprehensive believable and achievable execution plans to deliver high-profile new features and capabilities for our customers.

- Build and maintain integrated project schedules that account for internal/external dependencies, differing delivery approaches, numerous constraints, and adequately factor in contingency for unplanned delays

- Negotiate features and associated priority and help the team and their customers reach consensus

- You may drive the execution of a feature through the full stack or may drive a project which spans multiple teams and integrations, reporting meaningful status along the way.

Requirements :

- Demonstrated ability to operate with independence and autonomy

- Demonstrated experience breaking down problems, organizing work, planning sprints, and delivering technical programs in agile delivery models (scrum, Kanban, etc.)

- Experience working on programs to define and build cloud-native software products as a platform at scale

- Enjoys diving deep to understand of the platforms capabilities and underlying technologies.

- Proven track record of data driven decision-making and applying continuous improvement methodologies across teams

- Can debate the delivery strategy with business teams, architects, engineers, and designers

- Can communicate to executives, peers, and staff with impact, eloquence, and authenticity

- Demonstrated experience building relationships, partnering with and influencing dependent teams while commanding the respect of the individuals you work with across the organization

- Experience defining and building cloud-native software products as a platform at scale with a deep understanding of those platforms capabilities and underlying technologies

- Huge plus if you have expertise in Payments, IaaS, PaaS, serverless technology, CI/CD, NoSQL databases, microservices APIs, and distributed systems operations in a DevOps model

- BS in engineering, computer science or related discipline.

- Technical program delivery experience including time developing and testing software