Agile Program Manager

Agile Program Manager

Job location: Gdansk, Poland

Type of contract: B2B OR full-time employment

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We are looking for an experienced Program Manager to organize and coordinate programs. You will provide strategic guidance to teams and project managers in ways that promote the company's culture. You will also oversee the progress of operations.

To make it clear, we're not looking for just anyone. We're looking for someone special, who has these experiences and clearly demonstrated these skills:

• Operates as a team-based servant leader who enables the teams to self-organize, self-manage and deliver programs at the highest level.
• Advanced understanding of building and governing lean and program budgets, top down, bottoms up.
• Lead and implement business and tech-facing program communication strategies.
• Facilitate the program in the coordination with cross-functional teams to implement major feature releases and ensure ongoing delivery of value to customers.
• Facilitate program level processes and implementation, identify and manage dependencies and risks, as well as escalates impediments. Experience leading teams through resolution of program issues.
• Coordinate and facilitate iterative program level planning ceremonies (such as Product Owner Syncs, Scrum of Scrums, Inspect and Adapt, Program Increment Planning, and System Demos).
• Facilitates all of Scrum ceremonies (backlog grooming, planning meetings, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, demos).
• Strengthen the Product Owners, Product Managers and Agile teams to facilitate release planning preparedness.
• Partners with, guides and supports Product Owner in managing the backlog to ensure it is properly prioritized and appropriately sized.
• Monitor and report program health (ie, progress of feature completion, program predictability) with the purpose to provide transparency on program delivery of value.
• Tracks and communicates agile metrics (such as team velocity and sprint progress / brundown chart) to team, management and any impacted stakeholders.
• Instruct and mentor leadership and program-level teams in practicing Agile principles and practices, identify program / team training opportunities and solution / facilitate as needed.
• Experience in transformational technical and operational change through and across organizational structures.
• Excellent facilitation, presentation, conflict-resolution, influencing and communication skills, both written and oral, across all levels of technical and business audiences.
• Experience and success in global highly matrixed and collaborative team-oriented environments.
• History of being self-directed, results orientated with demonstrated ability to achieve aggressive goals despite ambiguity and multiple competing priorities

Must have:

• Minimum 6 years relevant work experience supporting large or multiple teams.
• Experience working with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools.
• Experience with other agile methodologies, LEAN, Kanban, XP Programming etc.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office; working knowledge of program / project management software (Basecamp, MS Project etc.) is a strong advantage.
• Outstanding leadership and organizational skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent problem-solving ability.
• BSc / BA diploma in management or a relevant field; MSc / MA is a plus.
• Relevant certification preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication in English and collaboration skills to effectively communicate with both business and technical IT teams

We offer:

• Opportunity to be part of a rapidly expanding global organization with irreproachable reputation.
• Pleasant and inspiring working atmosphere.
• Professional development and clear career path.
• Training & development opportunities.
• Competitive salary with cafeteria benefits.

Interested? Then please apply online. Please visit our career site for more information on our company: https://www.cognizant.com

In case our offer does not suit your needs, fell free to send it to interested acquaintances or friends

For more information, please visit www.cognizant.com