Program Manager

Job Summary:

The program manager plans, organizes, monitors, and oversees one or more strategic projects that are usually very large and complex in scope, budget, and team structure.   S/he identifies and requests necessary personnel and financial resources, determining tasks that must be completed, assigning the tasks, delegating authority, and motivating team members to work together for the success of project.

The program manager is responsible for tracking progress on tasks while comparing it to what was planned. S/he also should have a foundational understanding of Agile methodologies and practices.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions:


* Defines project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.


* Leads the development and management of the project work plan, including work sequencing, work breakdown structure, work delivery schedule, and resource allocation.


* Delegates tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.


* Identifies and resolves issues and conflicts within the project team.


* Adheres to Allegis Group system development lifecycle (SDLC) and Project Management Lifecycle (PMLC).


* Adheres to methods, procedures and quality objectives including metrics for assessing progress and provides recommendations on process improvements.


* Identifies and manages project dependencies and critical path.


* Proactively manages changes in project scope, identifies potential risks, and devises contingency plans to ensure that the project remains within specified scope and is within time, cost and quality objectives.


* Inform stakeholders of project schedule, risks, and issues or changes to the plans, proactively.


* Provides visibility and status of work units to the customer on a timely basis.


* Builds, develops, and grows any business relationships vital to the success of the project.


* Contributes to process and methodological improvement based on performance analysis, lessons learned, project archives, etc.


* Aggregates team objectives into Program PI Objectives and publishes for visibility and transparency


* Assists with economic decision-making by Epic estimation by teams and rollup to program level visibility, managing WSJF processes, and with program execution


* Constantly inspect the process, discover and address the major concerns


* Drives program-level continuous improvement via retrospectives


* Encourages team and program level Quality Practices and Communities of Practice around Agile, Scrum, and Agile program management


* Escalates impediments


* Helps manage risk and dependencies


* Maintains proper communication with all the technical and non-technical teams involved


* Participates in enterprise program management improvement and standardization activities


* Provides input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks


* Reports status...