Ford Credit Platform Engineering is looking for a Project Managers specializing in strategic delivery. You will work on highly complex, cross-team, multi-project programs and help to ensure teams are delivering high quality products and services while being responsible for the over-arching roadmap. You will help teams work on predictability and quality while supporting engineering and operational excellence. The role will have the ability to directly impact the future of program management practices at Ford Credit and effect a high degree of change across the Ford Credit Engineering teams. The candidate will make an impact by aligning business and global technology goals while managing relationships across geographically distributed teams and influencing decisions across multiple work streams and executive leadership. The primary customers for the role are engineering leaders, product managers, developers, and analytics teams within Ford Credit. The candidate will have a deep understanding of Lean-Agile program management practices (including SAFe), DevOps, and SRE principles and practices. The candidate s technical depth should include understanding the principles behind why engineering teams make architectural decisions, including cloud native platforms, streaming data platforms, and the challenges faced when providing secure solutions in regulatory spaces as well as ensuring the privacy of our customers.
The minimum requirements we seek
- Bachelor degree/BE in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.
- Overall 10+ years and minimum of 8+ years experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area
- Extensive experience using, managing, and supporting teams with Agile program management tools such as Jira, Confluence.
- Should have delivered atleast one Program/Project in SAFe and has good knowledge in PI planning.
Our Preferred Qualifications
- Certification in Lean-Agile practices, such as Certified Scrum Master,
RTE
. - Experience managing complex programs with solutions relying on cloud-native technologies.
- Overall 10+ years and minimum of 8+ years experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area
- Extensive experience managing programs supporting Platform service-oriented or SaaS based solutions.
- Strong verbal and written communications skills with the ability to influence the enterprise.
What you ll receive in return
We believe that freedom of movement drives human progress. As part of this exciting program, you ll enjoy a high level of involvement with an exceptional team of industry innovators and visionaries. You ll contribute in a meaningful way to our important, breakthrough work! And you ll develop the skills that will give you a significant edge in your future career pursuits.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status.
In this position, you will
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Project Planning and Management
- Develop and manage project plans, schedules, and budgets
- Define project scope, goals, and deliverables
- Coordinate and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful project delivery.
- Monitor and report on project progress, identifying and mitigating risks as needed.
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Program Incremental (PI) Event
- Lead and facilitate Agile ceremonies such as daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the team.
- Facilitate the PI Planning by helping ensure readiness with strategic alignment, leadership and team preparedness and managing event logistics.
- Support PI execution by facilitating ART events and escalating impediments.
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Stakeholder Management
- Serve as the primary point of contact for project stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment.
- Manage stakeholder expectations and ensure their needs are met.
- Provide on-going visibility to all stakeholders on program status including key decisions, dependencies, risks, issues, metrics, etc.
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Team Leadership and Development
- Mentor ad coach team members on Agile methodologies and best practices.
- Foster a collaborative and high-performing team environment.
- Identify and address any team dynamics issues that may impact project success.
- Uncover, anticipate, raise and aggressively remove obstacles which prevent program teams from delivering against expected program outcomes.
- Support the teams to collaboratively drive continuous improvement and create a learning organization to enable speed to market and foster innovation.
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Delivery Metrics and JIRA Dashboards
- Ensure that project deliverables meet the required quality standards.
- Implement and oversee testing and quality assurance processes.
