Job Description

Job Title Advanced Specialist, Product Program Management

Agile project delivery role focused on requirements, planning, risk management, and process improvement. This role aligns to industry level titles such as Senior product program management, Lead product program management.

Key Responsibilities

• Performs requirement analysis for feature enhancements of and changes to existing products.
• Determines milestones to meet minimally viable products as defined by product champions, and what will be needed to meet milestone (time, materials, etc.), the scope of project and how the scope fits into the milestone timelines.
• Drives or oversees iteration planning to create tasks, and work with project team to determine and refine estimates based on departmental abilities and constraints.
• Authors, maintains, and applies detailed project plans to support software development, hardware installations, and a variety of integration projects.
• Performs risk analysis for projects and facilitates lessons learned or large retrospectives.
• Assists project managers with implementing lessons learned from other projects.
• Recommends and implements process improvements within the program management group.
  

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

All candidates will be technically evaluated at the time of hiring on their software engineering aptitude.

Intermediate experience or knowledge required in the following areas:

• Strong ability to foster and maintain positive creative agile project teams.
• Advanced experience or knowledge required in the following areas: requirements analysis; agile project management; Iteration and Release Planning.
• Advanced knowledge of Internet technologies, concepts and applied background in Software Development Methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of full life-cycle development.