Adept at driving programs, has a can-do attitude, and can own problems and take responsibility for solving those.
Open and appreciative of candid feedback.
5+ years Experience in project/program management.
Bachelors or Masters in technical discipline Maths, Stats, Computer Science, Engineering.
Eight years of Experience working with technical subjects and emerging technologies in Cloud or related technical fields.
Experience working in a startup environment. Can thrive in ambiguity and bring order to chaos.
Strong leadership skills; Able to independently navigate, influence, and resolve conflicts with others.
Experience with Planning & Prioritization; establish and enforce prioritization criteria that balance the product roadmap with engineering feasibility .
Flexible in collaborating across multiple time zones.
Excellent written & verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with confidence, clarity, and focus. Able to convey concepts and considerations to business and technical folks.
Responsibilities:
Gather requirements from various stakeholders, convert them to technical specifications where needed, articulate those requirements into stories, prioritize them in collaboration with Product Management, Engineering Management, Release Management and Cloud operations.
Provide precise specifications, success criteria, and intended software product development scope. Ensure on-time delivery of the final product and take a hands-on approach to program management throughout the entire software development lifecycle.
Ensure the prioritized requirements are committed, communicated, and delivered on the agreed-upon timeline.
Lead/facilitate technical discussions and articulate, document, communicate proposed solutions.
Lead, coordinate cross-functional programs with multiple products and engineering teams, and develop an end-to-end project plan. Draft, communicate, and come up with milestones timelines.
Lead Quarterly commits for the entire product development.
Work closely with critical IT, DevOps, Security, Software development, product management, and senior leadership to define and drive product requirements and execution strategies.
Anticipate and plan around execution bottlenecks, escalate effectively, recommend, and make tradeoffs, and balance business needs and technical constraints.
Break large, complex programs into manageable, demonstrable pieces and promptly orchestrate their incremental delivery across multiple teams.
Apply high judgment, practical negotiation skills, and influence across team boundaries to deliver customer value.
Communicate regularly with senior management on status, risks, and change control.
Manage multiple interdependent projects of moderate to high complexity and scope. Use technical judgment to build consensus, schedule, plans, execution, and communicate status to the stakeholders.
Qualifications
Familiarity of Identity and Access Management concepts
Prefer experience with AWS Cloud, CI/CD, Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitHub, Salt stack
Adept at creating dashboards in Jira and skilled at using Conflue