Senior Technical Program Manager

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Title and Summary

Senior Technical Program Manager

About the position
Overview:
Job Description Summary
Overview
Next Edge - Payment Networks team is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager who will manage the implementation of multiple projects/programs ensuring product/engineering strategy goals and requirements are delivered with quality. As Senior TPM, you will interact with product managers, software development managers, developers, and senior leaders across partner teams in Payment Networks organization to deliver complex projects and programs. You will develop program execution plans, align dependencies, track progress, anticipate risks, provide escalation management, and work with Stakeholders across different programs. The ideal candidate is passionate about learning the deep technical concepts, customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset. You are expected to be detail-oriented, with a fluent communication, technical background and excellent problem-solving skills.

The Role (Major Accountabilities):
• Drives execution of an outcome from inception through successful delivery through the full stack of the services/domains, or, an outcome that spans multiple teams and integrations across the enterprise.
• Organizes and accelerates a group of related technology projects or activities across multiple teams, aligning dependent organizations. Identify and remove blockers and always find the path forward in challenging situations.
• Creates mechanisms to effectively report out and control execution.
• Clearly articulate scope, timelines, dependencies, owners, actions, risks, and mitigations. Report progress to teams and senior leadership in regular cadence.
• Looked to as first point of contact for your team or area and the source of truth for status, providing the correct information and associated data about the state of the project to the right audience at the right time.
• Transform raw thoughts into clear and concise communications/instructions to the teams and leadership.
• Understands the Technical strategy and design approaches within product, program or domain with depth to be credible and influential with teams they work with.
• Work across teams to optimize processes
• Regularly review metrics and proactively seek out new and improved data/mechanisms for visibility ensuring your program stays aligned with organization objectives.

All About You :
• Experience in building large scale enterprise technical or engineering programs and products from inception to delivery and experience articulating the impact using metrics.
• Demonstrated experience breaking down problems, organizing work, planning work/sprints, ability to work in a deadline-driven work environment, attention to detail, and ability to multitask and deliver technical programs in agile/waterfall delivery models.
• Coordination and organization skills and the ability to work with multiple stakeholders and vendors across locations to ensure success of the project.
• Technical capability to effectively solve software engineering challenges, communicate with engineers, scope technical programs, and identify technical risks.
• Enjoys diving deep to understand of the platforms capabilities and underlying technologies.
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Can debate the delivery strategy with teams, architects, engineers, and designers.
• Demonstrated experience building relationships, partnering with and influencing dependent teams while commanding the respect of the individuals you work with across the organization.
• Experience of software engineering, systems engineering, or technical product/program management experience (in software space).
• Huge plus if you have expertise in Software