Senior Program Manager
Posted Today by 1759908652
£600 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
City of London
Summary: The Senior Program Manager is responsible for overseeing program and project management within the Application Engineering vertical, ensuring quality and adherence to internal standards. This role involves collaborating with Product Managers to create and execute detailed plans for product delivery across engineering teams. The incumbent must effectively manage ambiguity and transform poorly defined problems into actionable specifications while driving project execution within scope, time, and budget constraints.
Key Responsibilities:
- 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.
- Partner with Onyx engineering leads and product owners to implement good project management discipline across all product deliverables.
- Collaborate with Tech and partners in R&D to ensure interdependencies are understood and presented as a whole.
- Define appropriate tracking measures and build automated reports/dashboards to support informed decision-making.
- Ensure good risk management practices are embedded within projects and escalate risks requiring senior discussion.
Key Skills:
- Strong program and project management skills.
- Experience with agile methodologies and tools such as Jira and Confluence.
- Ability to manage ambiguity and transform problems into actionable plans.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience in risk management and financial tracking.
Salary (Rate): £600 per day
City: Kings cross
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Senior Program Manager
Length: 12 months
Location: Kings cross - Hybrid 2 to 3 days per week
Rate: £500 to £600 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
