Manager Agile Program Manager

Job Purpose· Lead the overall delivery setup and execution, people and financials management for the assigned software services projects/ program work streams in order to realize defined business outcomes with mid-sized, globally distributed teams · Partner with Agile leads, other delivery leads, clients and other internal/ external stakeholders to drive effective adoption of best practices, deployment of processes, methodologies and tools, execution of ceremonies and to drive continuous improvement on delivery engagements · Contribute to pre-sales and works with the legal and operations teams to ensure compliance · Manage relationships & status reporting within the organization, with clients & applicable third parties · Manage internal and external dependencies for the project or program · People management responsibilities for team members, track leads, scrum masters and product owners · Participate in Delivery Management and (or) Agile communities · The Scrum Master is trained on practicing Scrum and helps a team adopt Scrum in order to deliver quality releases quickly to market · Expertise with various Agile Methodologies –Scrum, Scrum with XP, Kanban, and Scrum ban etc. · Expertise with various Agile Tools - Jira, Xplanner, Confluence, RTC, TFS, Rally etc. and ensuring adoption in consistent manner. · Act as servant leader and shield the team from external interference and distractions to keep it in group flow · Create self-organizing teams, build consensus and resolve conflict · Responsible for the team to follow processes, establish and actively facilitate the cadence of all scrum ceremonies, and remove team impediments or escalate as per defined SLAs · Ability to partner with product owner and manage backlog - backlog prioritization, backlog grooming, ready groomed stories for next 3 iterations · Responsible for Definition of Done, Definition of Ready, Sprint Dashboard, Burn down Charts, QA Metrics (Quality/Technical Debt; Cycle Time/Lead Time), Story Quality Metrics, Escalation Plan, Sprint Start and Closure activities, Team working Agreement, push for Automation, Story Estimation techniques (like planning poker) etc. · Ability to manage and increase team velocity, measure efficiency at team and individual level · Articulate the overall project risk and risk mitigation plan and make it transparent to the relevant stakeholders · Good to have functional understanding of project and business value being delivered · Keeps scrum artifacts updated and visible · Knowledge of engineering best practices (XP, Refactoring, Clean code patterns, CI/CD – DevOps, TDD/BDD/DDD, Trunk based development) Mandatory Skills & Experience · Over 3 years of experience as the lead project manager for full lifecycle delivery of mid-sized (>6 months in schedule and >600 person days in effort) software services projects or programs with globally distributed teams · Strong “hands on” project management experience from inception to closure phases · Experience with 2 or more engagements as a lead (scrum master, product owner, Kanban lead, etc.) on delivery or consulting projects/ programs based on Scrum/ Kanban framework · Experience of delivering one or more fixed time, fixed price or SLA based managed services engagements · Over 2 years of lead experience in a direct client facing role (preferably in the US or UK) as part of a consulting/ services organization · Knowledge of 2 or more effort and cost estimation methodologies/ frameworks · Direct people management responsibilities for 5 or more people (including track leads/ other leads) and indirect responsibility/ span of 15 or more people as part of a cross functional team comprising of business analysts. Creative designers, developers, testers and other support functions · Strong commercial acumen i.e understanding of pricing models, delivery P&L, budgeting, etc. Basic level understanding of contracts · Industry experience on Retail, Financial Services, Energy & commodities, Travel & Hospitality, Automotive, Consumer products is preferred. . Reporting dashboard Nice to have Experience & Credentials · Diverse experience across more than one service offering such as application development and maintenance, application/ product support, systems integration, product engineering, package implementation, project management consulting, etc. · Practitioner experience as an Agile Coach · Delivery experience with scaled agile engagements · Certifications: SAFe or other scaled agile related certifications