IT Program Manager, Conferences Technology
GartnerAbout the role
Hiring near our Irving, TX Center of Excellence with a flexible environment.
About Gartner IT:
Join a world-class team of skilled engineers who build creative digital solutions to support our colleagues and clients. We make a broad organizational impact by delivering cutting-edge technology solutions that power Gartner. Gartner IT values its culture of nonstop innovation, an outcome-driven approach to success, and the notion that great ideas can come from anyone on the team.
About the role:
Gartner is looking for a well-rounded IT Program Manager who can provide project and program leadership for technology projects within Gartner’s Conference Technology organization. As the Global Conferences business continues to grow, our Conference Technology team will aim to deliver world-class execution, world-class digital products, and world-class data availability. The IT Program Manager role will lead a complex Portfolio of IT projects across multiple technology services. They are accountable for the quality of the results, benefits realization, timely delivery, ensuring that projects are planned and executed in a manner consistent with company strategy, commitments, goals, and standards. They will be responsible for implementing and ensuring adherence to standard Agile practices, coaching and guiding teams through continuous improvement and adoption. In this role you will be required to manage and collaborate with geographically dispersed teams. The candidate must have experience driving Agile transformations and improving organizational Agile maturity.
What you will do:
Responsible for the oversight and management of global technology-based Project Portfolio in support of IT initiatives. Accountable for improving organizational Agile maturity and adherence to Agile practices, and for fostering an environment of collaboration and high impact results
Enforce strategic portfolio management standards and practices, promoting transparency, execution and risk discipline across technology development work.
Analyze the scope and direction of initiatives across multiple levels of management and organizational boundaries
Direct multiple sub-team project plans and execution efforts into a cohesive whole
Evaluate project and program performance consistently with key performance indicators
Partner with technical leadership to report project progress to executive level and cross-team stakeholders. Leverage personal expertise to develop and present rational conclusions, recommendations and direct implementation strategies/action plans
Facilitate the adoption of Agile methodologies, standards and practices across multiple services and ensure adherence by Technology teams.
Provide guidance and support to Scrum Masters in Agile principles and practices
Leverage Agile metrics like lead time, cycle time, velocity, and burn-down charts to monitor team performance and identify areas for improvement
Identify systemic operational issues and resolve them as well as identify root causes and process improvements to present similar issues
Responsible for the creation of long-term strategies and approaches to control and manage
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