Senior Technical Program Manager - Software Resources, Inc.
Burbank, CA 91505
About the Job
Software Resources has an immediate job opportunity for a REMOTE Senior Technical Program Manager with a major corporation in Burbank, CA.
Duration: 12 month(s)
Pay Rate: $85 - $90/hr DOE
Must Haves:
Description:
This is a contractor position within the: Business Operations - Global Program Management organization, supporting our Ad Platforms technology group. The Senior Technical Program Manager will focus on the planning and execution of highly complex programs that may span several areas of Ad Platforms, or may cut across the department and other DEE Technology groups. They may also assist with the triage of other programs to help form recommendations to senior leadership.
This position requires proven experience in program management. Ideal candidates must be highly proactive, detail-oriented, and able to autonomously work on multiple assignments. They must be capable of attaining a strong understanding of technical details and clearly communicating schedules, risks, status, and processes to a variety of business and technical audiences. They must be able to partner with closely with project managers and technical leads to coordinate schedules and deliverables.
Basic Qualifications:
" Drive activities for large, strategic, technically complex, high-priority programs
" Develop plans and timelines, accounting for all dependencies
" Ensure transparency of progress and issues/risks. Proactively drive risk mitigation and contingency planning, along with issue resolution
" Communicate status, updates, and program summaries via presentations, email, and direct communication with key stakeholders and executive leadership
" Ensure that all involved parties understand and accept their roles and responsibilities and are held accountable to their deliverables
" Facilitate all build activities (including QA), as per plan
" Proactively drive, track, and report on budgets
" Perform capacity planning for teams
" Collaborate with other program management colleagues to coordinate activities across multiple technology teams
" Strong understanding of most program domain technical components, including architecture, tools and deployment practices that development team is employing, including cross-system interactions and dependencies
" Track and report key program metrics, informing stakeholders as appropriate
" Partner with Product to facilitate advancement of intake pipeline, sometimes helping to triage programs to make recommendations to senior leadership
" Independently manage activities and resolve conflict within associated teams, with minimal influence from management
" Effortlessly sift through "noise and facilitate discussions and activities with a laser focus towards results
" Exemplify leadership characteristics through collaboration, work ethic, and creative thinking. Strive to inspire others and deliver the best possible outputs
" Coordinate with external vendors, where applicable
" May manage smaller teams of professional employees related to area of focus or expertise
Preferred Qualifications:
" 8+ years of experience managing large-scale, strategic, software development programs in a well-established global technology organization
" Proven ability to facilitate effective communication across disparate teams
" Expertise in Agile or Waterfall program management methods that may include Scrum, Kanban, and/or Scaled Agile
" Evidence of strong planning, delivery, and problem-solving skills
" Superb written and verbal communications, presentation skills, and meeting facilitation skills (especially when working with senior leadership)
" BA/BS or equivalent experience required
Required Education:
BS or equivalent experience
Don't delay. Join the Software Resources team today!
Software Resources specializes in connecting talented IT professionals with challenging job opportunities that transform jobs into careers.
To meet our clients' hiring needs, we continuously source talented IT Professionals with all levels of expertise and in all disciplines. We offer world class major medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) with match, short term disability, Life Insurance and AD&D. You, our future employees, can make a tremendous difference to our company and our clients. Please apply to this job and experience the Software Resources difference. You can view all of our jobs at https://www.softwareresources.com/careers/
ALERT : Spoofing Scam Advisory
Software Resources has been targeted by spoofing attacks. Scammers impersonating our employees may contact you with fake job offers, asking for personal information. Unfortunately, we cannot completely prevent these fraudulent activities.
Stay Protected : Verify any communication claiming to be from Software Resources. For your safety, directly confirm the legitimacy of any job offer or inquiry by calling us at 407-515-6020. Do not respond to unsolicited requests without verification.
We value our integrity and urge you not to fall victim to these scams. Always verify by calling us directly at 407-515-6020.
Duration: 12 month(s)
Pay Rate: $85 - $90/hr DOE
Must Haves:
- Need to be able to piece together all the elements of the program
- Understand the elements and package them into a collection of work (big picture)
- Strong Communication skills with executives
- Working with revenue generating ads
- Heavy software development experience - media is preferred
Description:
This is a contractor position within the: Business Operations - Global Program Management organization, supporting our Ad Platforms technology group. The Senior Technical Program Manager will focus on the planning and execution of highly complex programs that may span several areas of Ad Platforms, or may cut across the department and other DEE Technology groups. They may also assist with the triage of other programs to help form recommendations to senior leadership.
This position requires proven experience in program management. Ideal candidates must be highly proactive, detail-oriented, and able to autonomously work on multiple assignments. They must be capable of attaining a strong understanding of technical details and clearly communicating schedules, risks, status, and processes to a variety of business and technical audiences. They must be able to partner with closely with project managers and technical leads to coordinate schedules and deliverables.
Basic Qualifications:
" Drive activities for large, strategic, technically complex, high-priority programs
" Develop plans and timelines, accounting for all dependencies
" Ensure transparency of progress and issues/risks. Proactively drive risk mitigation and contingency planning, along with issue resolution
" Communicate status, updates, and program summaries via presentations, email, and direct communication with key stakeholders and executive leadership
" Ensure that all involved parties understand and accept their roles and responsibilities and are held accountable to their deliverables
" Facilitate all build activities (including QA), as per plan
" Proactively drive, track, and report on budgets
" Perform capacity planning for teams
" Collaborate with other program management colleagues to coordinate activities across multiple technology teams
" Strong understanding of most program domain technical components, including architecture, tools and deployment practices that development team is employing, including cross-system interactions and dependencies
" Track and report key program metrics, informing stakeholders as appropriate
" Partner with Product to facilitate advancement of intake pipeline, sometimes helping to triage programs to make recommendations to senior leadership
" Independently manage activities and resolve conflict within associated teams, with minimal influence from management
" Effortlessly sift through "noise and facilitate discussions and activities with a laser focus towards results
" Exemplify leadership characteristics through collaboration, work ethic, and creative thinking. Strive to inspire others and deliver the best possible outputs
" Coordinate with external vendors, where applicable
" May manage smaller teams of professional employees related to area of focus or expertise
Preferred Qualifications:
" 8+ years of experience managing large-scale, strategic, software development programs in a well-established global technology organization
" Proven ability to facilitate effective communication across disparate teams
" Expertise in Agile or Waterfall program management methods that may include Scrum, Kanban, and/or Scaled Agile
" Evidence of strong planning, delivery, and problem-solving skills
" Superb written and verbal communications, presentation skills, and meeting facilitation skills (especially when working with senior leadership)
" BA/BS or equivalent experience required
Required Education:
BS or equivalent experience
Don't delay. Join the Software Resources team today!
Software Resources specializes in connecting talented IT professionals with challenging job opportunities that transform jobs into careers.
To meet our clients' hiring needs, we continuously source talented IT Professionals with all levels of expertise and in all disciplines. We offer world class major medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) with match, short term disability, Life Insurance and AD&D. You, our future employees, can make a tremendous difference to our company and our clients. Please apply to this job and experience the Software Resources difference. You can view all of our jobs at https://www.softwareresources.com/careers/
ALERT : Spoofing Scam Advisory
Software Resources has been targeted by spoofing attacks. Scammers impersonating our employees may contact you with fake job offers, asking for personal information. Unfortunately, we cannot completely prevent these fraudulent activities.
Stay Protected : Verify any communication claiming to be from Software Resources. For your safety, directly confirm the legitimacy of any job offer or inquiry by calling us at 407-515-6020. Do not respond to unsolicited requests without verification.
We value our integrity and urge you not to fall victim to these scams. Always verify by calling us directly at 407-515-6020.
Source : Software Resources, Inc.