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At eXcell, you re more than just a number. Our employee relationship managers support you throughout your engagement, providing career guidance and reemployment assistance. Join eXcell! Our client is a revolutionary, Saas provider of Technology Expense Management (TEM) and IT Finance Management (ITFM) solutions. This 100% remote role will manage scrum teams across the globe and deliver products that are changing the ways companies manage finances.The Director of Program Management & Engineering is responsible for the end-to-end charge of the R&D program, from shaping the approach to achieving the desired outcomes through delivery via collaboration, management, and execution between outsourcing, internal technology and operations, and executive leadership.Responsibilities:
- Coordinating projects and resource management within the program
- Stakeholder and sponsor communications
- Reporting
- Program financial management
- Accelerate time-to-market with a focus on value delivery
- Leads current state, transition state, future state program development, with major milestone delivery aligned to goals and objectives
- Manages outsourcing and co-sourcing framework or guidelines for the use of contractors and professional service providers and determines their use across the program.
- Partner s with sponsor to communicate program / release goals, objectives, and potential outcomes.
- Lead s coordination with all partners to inform, alert, negotiate and maintain a continuing good relationship and shared vision for the program outcome.
- Establish es and ensure es overall program governance via appropriate functions, policies, and procedures.
- Actively maintains program documentation, communications, collaboration, reporting with all partner/stakeholder mapping.
- Manages the program budget and maintains expenses within the plan.
- Ensures and balances the team topology, skills, and competencies of all development and delivery teams.
- Advises, builds, and maintains relationships across the wider stakeholder community. Serves as intermediary between customers, stakeholders, and development teams.
- Utilizes feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity and partners with others to coach the program to continuously improve
- Oversees the execution of product workstreams, their progress compared with the plan and the production of agreed deliverables.
- Monitors and coordinates dependencies across the projects in the program and resolves conflicts.
- Supports and facilitates agenda setting for program steering committee meetings.
- Executive leadership team
- IT leadership team and staff
- Business unit executives
- Other functional group leaders
- 10+ years of experience in technology business/industry
- 5+ years in diverse roles with increasing leadership responsibilities across major projects and programs
- C onsulting leadership experience
- Demonstrated experience in managing "upward among senior leadership
- Demonstrated experience in leading diverse teams, including offshore, nearshore
- Exceptional leadership skills, with the ability to develop and communicate the program objectives, inspire and motivate staff, and maintain alignment with the business strategy.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain and "sell the program goals and objectives to the business, as well as technical leadership.
- High emotional intelligence, astuteness and the ability to use organizational leverage, influencing and negotiating to achieve program success and overcome obstacles.
- A high level of empathy and the ability to vary styles of interaction to match the needs of a variety of temperaments and personalities.
- Mastery of complex facilitation and dependency management techniques (cross team, cross department)
- Partners with technical leaders and others to support program/organization's automation (testing, pipelines, deployments) / DevOps journey
- Strong business acumen, including TEM, ITFM .
- Excellent analytical, strategic planning and execution skills.
- Ability to develop programs and deliver them with financial and resource constraints.
- Experience with at least one agile development framework such as SAFe, Scrum, or Nexus
- Experience across a range of project types.
- Demonstrated knowledge of project planning and agile tools