About the role
Key Responsibilities * Partner with product and engineering teams to support development and execution of the portfolio roadmap. * Plan, coordinate, and support day-to-day execution of assigned programs and initiatives. * Lead and facilitate large program planning activities to align objectives, timelines, and deliverables across initiatives. * Track, monitor, and report program progress, risks, dependencies, and outcomes across multiple stakeholders. * Ensure program execution aligns with enterprise and sector program management standards. * Work with product teams and stakeholders to define requirements, manage schedules, identify risks, and communicate status and recommendations. * Facilitate regular reviews with leadership to assess program progress and validate outcomes. * Support engineering rigor by ensuring delivery aligns with agreed acceptance criteria and definitions of done. * Identify and resolve impediments, escalating as appropriate through established governance channels. * Apply facilitation and dependency management techniques to drive cross-program and cross-team coordination. * Maintain visibility into interdependencies and manage escalations to support delivery of business value. * Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and support change initiatives across programs.
Required Skills & Experience * Proven experience in enterprise program management, PMO leadership, process management, or large-scale software delivery, with accountability for complex cross-functional initiatives from planning through execution. * Demonstrated ability to run complex, high-visibility programs involving multiple workstreams, competing priorities, critical dependencies, and senior leadership oversight. * Strong PMO discipline, including governance, portfolio alignment, milestone planning, RAID management, dependency tracking, executive reporting, decision documentation, and action-item follow-through. * Experience managing difficult partners, challenging stakeholders, and competing agendas while maintaining professionalism, driving alignment, and keeping teams focused on delivery outcomes. * Skilled at influencing without direct authority across product, engineering, risk, operations, business, and leadership teams in a matrixed enterprise environment. * Experience delivering complex technical programs within cloud, cybersecurity, infrastructure, risk, or software engineering environments. * Strong understanding of agile delivery practices, including Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile frameworks, with the ability to apply agile, hybrid, or governance-led approaches based on program needs. * Ability to drive clarity from ambiguity by defining scope, success criteria, operating models, roles and responsibilities, escalation paths, and measurable outcomes. * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex technical, delivery, and risk information into clear executive-ready updates, recommendations, and decision points. * Strong facilitation and negotiation skills, including the ability to lead working sessions, resolve blockers, manage conflict constructively, and gain commitment from diverse stakeholder groups. * Ability to manage risk, dependencies, delivery timelines, resource constraints, and escalation paths across multiple initiatives while maintaining transparency and accountability. * One or more relevant certifications preferred: * PMP * PgMP * Certified Scrum Master (CSM) * Product Owner * Agile Coach * SAFe
Technical Domain Knowledge (Hands-On Coding Not Required) The role requires sufficient technical depth to facilitate architecture and system discussions, reviews, and go-live activities, including experience in one or more of the following: * Major public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) * Vulnerability management and remediation * Application security * Automation and CI/CD tools and practices * Public cloud security practices and services
Deliverables / Expected Outcomes * Coordinated delivery of programs aligned to portfolio objectives and adoption tracking. * Clear program plans, status reporting, and risk/dependency management. * Effective cross-team coordination and stakeholder communication. * Support for timely delivery of engineering outcomes aligned to agreed standards. * Identification and implementation of process and delivery improvements.
Rate range -$55-$60