Program Manager

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We are seeking a Program Manager. This role requires a deep background in product development and some experience with enterprise level program management, working with multiple teams on one or more software products.

• Serve as team liaison for business stakeholders and become a product expert as it relates to market direction and user feedback.
• Break down business requirements into a fully consumable backlog of scope for the development team or teams.
• Prioritize backlog and interpret regular feedback from stakeholders to adjust this prioritization and scope.
• Work with client and internal organization counterparts to remove impediments for the team.
• Synchronize team activities and coordinate amongst multiple teams.
• Provide organizational oversight and escalate issues as appropriate.
• This position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position. Other relevant essential functions may be required.

• Proven experience in Power Builder migration to .NET migration.
• 7+ years’ experience in a similar functional role within a software development teams
• Strong Leadership skills with at least 6 years leading agile development teams.
• Experience in managing and leading custom development projects
• Experience in managing large-scale data migration projects
• Advanced level skills with one or more project management tools such as Rally, TFS, Jira, etc.
• Certification for either Scrum Master or Product Owner or Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.
• Strong technical knowledge/awareness with 1 or more web technology stacks
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong Professional services/customer services skills.
• Self-motivated, self-directed, and influential with customers.
• Proven ability to be prompt, dependable, trustworthy.
• Ability to quickly understand relevant business knowledge.
• Strong team leadership and management skills. Ability to lead other business analysts and project managers.
• Ability to elicit high level business requirements from stakeholders and break those down into consumable components for one or multiple development teams.
• Ability to organize and lead one or potentially multiple software development teams simultaneously.
• Solid leadership and client relationship skills, as this individual will be representing the team to the customer.
• Ability to take on manager responsibilities for all team members.
• Ability to influence client stakeholders, specifically to attain an agile development mindset.