Lead IT development projects that support the creation and delivery of our industry-leading financial technology SaaS platform and serves as a leader and authority with expert-level knowledge in one or more areas. Duties will include:
- Partnering with senior leaders, product managers, and development managers across the entire organization to understand priorities and execute strategic program objectives for software design and development projects.
- Driving the development of complex software engineering program plans across a number of distributed teams within the Engineering organization using the Agile development process.
- Acts to set the cross organizational strategy for program management.
- Promotes innovation and actively seeks opportunities to innovate and collaborate with others to achieve innovative outcomes.
- Serving as a software engineering subject-matter expert on requirements definition, design and development, testing and implementation.
- Coordinating with external clients and the implementation team for end-to-end software engineering program planning and delivery.
- Facilitating program delivery by tracking feature-based delivery timelines.
- Anticipating problems and complications and formulating engineering solutions to avoid impeding the progress of the program.
- Conducting and managing weekly meetings with cross-functional software development and engineering teams to drive program progress.
- Producing clear and concise status reports for executive leadership.
- Supporting the definition and rollout of standardized Software Development Life Cycle practices within the organization.
- Recognizing opportunities to use new or unique ideas and suggesting novel solutions to operational problems.
- Coaching employees through the change process; providing direction and steering to encourage successful performance during change or transition.
- Taking actions to persuade and adjust discourse during presentation or debate to achieve a better outcome.
- Using knowledge of formal and informal structures to drive support for achieving objectives.
Requirements:
Position requires a Bachelor’s degree (or an equivalent foreign degree) in Computer Science, Computer System Engineering, IT or a closely related field and 4 years of experience as an IT Program Manager. Must also have 4 years of experience (which can have been gained concurrently with the primary experience requirement above) working with the following:
- Software planning tool chains (Aha, JIRA, Confluence, MS Project and ServiceNow)
- Testing management tools including Xray and TestRail; and
- Continuous integration/Continuous Development and common programming frameworks including Angular and .Net.
This is a hybrid position working both at the company’s office in Weston, Massachusetts and at a home office on a weekly schedule agreed to with the manager.