Program Manager

Location

Bangalore | India

Job description

Program Manager

Location: Bangalore (India)

Experience: 10-14 years

About Aurigo:

Aurigo is an American technology company founded in 2003 to help public sector agencies and facility owners plan, deliver, and maintain their capital projects and assets safely and efficiently. With more than $300 billion of capital programs under management, Aurigo's award-winning software solutions are trusted by over 300 customers in transportation, water and utilities, healthcare, higher education, and government on over 40,000 projects across North America. We are a privately held corporation headquartered in Austin, Texas, USA, with software development and support centers in Canada and India. We are proud to be Great Place to Work Certified three times in a row. If you are ready to work for a fast-paced software company growing exponentially and interact with some of the brightest minds in the industry to solve real problems, we want to talk to you.

Role Summary:

As a program manager, you play a big role in successfully delivering and adding customer value and innovation to the Aurigo Product Portfolio. You play a vital role as a change agent in developing an environment for new ideas, lead by example, and improve team effectiveness and efficiency. You must have strong operational and program management skills, as well as a deep understanding of Agile development methodology, planning, execution, and change management processes and procedures. A positive attitude towards learning. As a program manager, you will collaborate with product leaders, engineering leadership, and internal stakeholders for inputs for product strategy and roadmap; get buy-in and commitments and manage expectations.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Drive day-to-day progress of programs & projects and keep various levels of management informed of project status and health.
• Drive quarterly BU roadmap, deliverables, OKRs and ensure deliverables are up to quality standards and in line with BU OKRs.
• Manage and maintain clear team backlogs, governance dashboards and ensure forward project momentum – ensure clear measurement and efficiency metrics are captured and actioned.
• Identify, analyse, and mitigate risk exposure at all levels.
• Interact comfortably in one-on-one meetings with individual technical contributors, senior engineering leaders (technology and business), and executive leadership.
• Lead and Drive customer communications and manage customer/stakeholder expectation.
• Lead efforts to resolve key project conflicts and establish appropriate resolution paths.
• Shield the team from outside distractions and interferences, Track and remove impediments for the team.
• Drive dependencies with teams across multiple business units at various level
• Create self-organizing teams that are flexible, efficient, adapt/manage changes/changing priorities based on business needs, and are fully productive during sprints.

Minimum Qualifications

• BE/B-Tech or MCA, MBA
• 10+ years of overall experience with at least 3+ years as a Program Manager in an Agile delivery & execution environment.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in Software/Application/Product development and must have knowledge of Cloud, SaaS products, and distributed systems.
• Must have either of the certification in: PMI PgMP, SAFe, CSM/PSM.
• Should have excellent hands-on knowledge of PMI Program Management principles, Agile ways of working (WoW), Agile Engineering best practices and frameworks in software/product development.
• Should have excellent working understanding of Scrum framework, with all its artifacts, ceremonies, and techniques.
• Proficient in one or more Agile project management tools - Azure DevOps preferable.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills - written and verbal to senior leadership.
• Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing.

Additional Skills and Experience

• Self-starter and have analytical, problem-solving skills.
• Able to nurture robust working relationships with the team, peers, and customers, scheduling flexibility required.
• 3. Experience in managing product development and innovation engagements, supporting high visibility support, bug fixing, tech debt reduction strategies.
• Excellent Problem solving, collaboration, conflict resolution, stakeholder management, negotiation, critical thinking, situation handling, strategic decision making, time management & leadership skills.
• Should be flexible and able to adapt quickly and confidently to rapidly changing roles, objectives, and priorities.
• Excellent technical and business reporting skills.

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