Project / Program Management Senior #1024049
Job Description:

• Leads the execution of strategy that ensures we deliver our program objectives in a consistent manner with full transparency
• Establishes governance model/operating model to enhance efficiencies, transparency & predictability within the ecosystem of delivery
• Champions communication between leadership and product teams
• Facilitates program planning by gathering and presenting the program's scope, strategic themes, and OKRs to create a comprehensive quarterly plan through collaborative team effort
• Accountable for strategic alignment of scope to the overarching Objectives and Key Results
• Continuous coordination of interdependencies & analysis of issues/risks with high impact
• Gather and facilitate the program steering committee to focus on high-level decision-making and ensuring alignment with overall organizational goals
• Proactively defines and communicates common program procedures to foster team alignment, ensure adoption, and ultimately achieve unified reporting
• Develops and implements a robust process for identifying, tracking, analyzing, communicating, and resolving program risks and issues, including regular reporting to stakeholders
• Ensures effective communication and coordination across all projects within the program.
• Manages stakeholder communication, providing regular updates to senior management and other key stakeholders regarding program operating status/health
• Provides a system of operation and runs program level agile ceremonies
• Develops program schedules and provides teams with a method for resource allocation for assigned programs.
• Surface and review change control for the products and projects within the program to ensure transparency & communication of deviations from scope baseline
• Monitors program progress and to ensure timely and effective communication regarding forecast, schedule, and risk assessment
• Documents and maintains organizational objectives in Jira for organizational alignment

 
Skills Required:

• Excellent communicator to stakeholders at different levels, across diverse regional skill-teams
• Ability to articulate complex information succinctly and accurately.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Able to traverse and translate both technical and business language
• Experience in leading / managing and inspiring diverse teams
• Proven track record in problem solving, making delivery commitments, managing customer expectations, and delivering on commitments
• Willing to be hands on with project management tool updates
• Proven collaborator with a track record of identifying and implementing process improvements that increase efficiency
• A highly collaborative individual who thrives in team settings

 
Experience Required:

• 5+ years of Program Management experience
• 5+ years of Software Delivery experience using Agile and/or Lean practices including defining and prioritizing product features and working with backlog management tools
• 2+ years of experience managing user requirements and user stories, calculating stories, tracking the delivery process, and managing software projects using Rally or Jira, or similar Agile Tools
• 2+ years of experience in supporting Cloud-based Software Products on the Google Cloud Platform (GCS, Big Query, Data Flow), AWS, or Azure

 
Education Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in business management or related field, or equivalent experience

 
Additional Info:
 
At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra.  We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.
We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years!
FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused.
We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.
Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:
 

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match

 
Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.
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