Technical program manager

Urgent Requirement: Job Title: Technical program manager Job Location: East Hanover, NJ ( Remote Until Pandemic Clear ) Duration: 12 Months Client: Altimetrik / Novartis Job Description: Program Manager at Altimetrik will collaborate with cross-functional teams, demonstrate strong leadership abilities and will have the opportunity to guide the development of our portfolio of products. Responsibilities includes: Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective

• Manage the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases
• Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates
• Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional)
• Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance
• Leads team effort in relentless improvement, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program Implement and support principles, rules and processes
• Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow

• Minimum 5 years of project management experience and 2 years leading sprints
• Demonstrable expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
• Thrives in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment Expert coach on implementation of agile scrum
• Deep understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
• Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices
• Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile procedures to predict the development teams' needs
• Present project readouts to Executive level audience
• Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology
• Excellent communicator in person, over the phone and through email Self-motivated, organized
• BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience