Skills

Leadership Jira Risk Management Project Management Confluence Agile

Job Specifications

Senior Program Manager
Length: 12 months
Location: Kings cross - Hybrid 2 to 3 days per week
Rate: PS500 to PS600 Per day via an umbrella company
The Senior Program Manager is accountable for supporting the Application Engineering vertical with program and project management needs, ensuring quality in internal standard ways of working including appropriate documentation, resource tracking and capacity planning to ensure successful program/project delivery. The incumbent partners with Product Managers to devise and execute realistic, achievable and high-quality plans that describe tasks required to deliver products across multiple engineering teams. A Senior Program Manager is expected to be able to consistently take a poorly defined problem with a large degree of ambiguity, work it to a well-defined problem/specification, and execute on it at a high level.

* Development and management of project plans; driving execution within scope, time and budget which may dynamically evolve to reflect change in customer needs or business constraints.

* Leading Shiprooms and agile sprint ceremonies, project tracking/reporting and managing backlogs with product managers. This to include a single view of each project within the portfolio of work and their interdependencies, establishing effective OKRs, robust documentation and project value/financial tracking.

* Partner with Onyx engineering leads and product owners to implement good project management discipline (tools and process) across all product deliverables, including use of Jira, Confluence, and similar productivity software

* Partner with Tech and partners in R&D to ensure that interdependencies are well understood and that all ingredients needed to understand complex multi-organizational work are brought together and presented as a whole. This includes identifying critical path items, milestones and interdependencies across Onyx

* Defines appropriate tracking measures and building automated comprehensive as well as meaningful reports/dashboards; synthesizing data and insights from across a project or program of work to support teams make informed tactical and strategic decisions

* Ensure that good risk management practice is Embedded within Onyx projects and that risks and opportunities are identified, addressed or that risks requiring collective senior discussion are escalated to the Onyx leadership team

About the Company

Experis is a global leader in IT professional resourcing, project solutions, and managed services specializing in Business Transformation, Enterprise Applications, Cloud and Infrastructure, Digital Workspace and Cyber Security. As digital transformation and acute skills shortages in tech continue unabated, Experis provides talent with the powerful combination of in-demand technical skills together with the soft skills that are critical for business success. We can connect you to individuals with a specific skill set, manage ... Know more