Senior Manager Agile Program Management

Company description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Overview

Publicis Sapient is looking for Senior Manager – Agile Program Manager to join our team of bright thinkers and doers. You’ll use your problem-solving creativity to design, architect, and develop high-end technology solutions that solve our clients’ most complex and challenging problems across different industries. We are on a mission to transform the world, and you will be instrumental in shaping how we do it with your ideas, thoughts, and solutions.

Your Impact:

• Lead the overall delivery setup and execution, people, and financials management for the assigned software services projects/ program work streams in order to realize defined business outcomes with mid-sized, globally distributed teams.
• Partner with other delivery leads, clients, and other internal/ external stakeholders to drive effective adoption of best practices, deployment of processes, methodologies and tools, execution of ceremonies and to drive continuous improvement on delivery engagements.
• Contribute to pre-sales and works with the legal and operations teams to ensure compliance.
• Manage relationships & status reporting within the organization, with clients & applicable third parties.
• Manage internal and external dependencies for the project or program.
• People management responsibilities for team members, track leads, scrum masters and product owners
• Participate in Delivery Management and (or) Agile communities.
• The Scrum Master is trained on practicing Scrum and helps a team adopt Scrum in order to deliver quality releases quickly to market.

Qualifications

Your Skills & Experience:

• Overall 15+ years of experience required and out of that 8+ years of experience as the lead Program/Project manager for full lifecycle delivery of mid-sized (>6 months in schedule and >600 person daysin effort)software services projects or programs with globally distributed teams.
• Strong “hands on” Program/Project management experience from inception to closure phases.
• Experience with 3 or more engagements as a lead (scrum master, product owner, Kanban lead, etc.) on delivery or consulting projects/ programs based on Scrum/ Kanban framework.
• Experience of delivering one or more fixed time, fixed price or SLA based managed services engagements.
• Delivery experience with scaled agile engagements
• Over 3 years of lead experience in a direct client facing role (preferably in the US or UK) as part of a consulting/ services organisation
• Direct people management responsibilities for 10 or more people (including track leads/ other leads) and indirect responsibility/ span of 25 or more people as part of a cross functional team comprising of business analysts. Creative designers, developers, testers and other support functions

Additional information

Set Yourself Apart With:

• Thorough understanding of working with Agile delivery methods like Scrum and Kanban
• Technologies – Proficient in 1 object-oriented programming language. Unit testing tools Junit or equivalent. Grip on JSON, YAML and XML parsing and manipulations.
• Understanding of web DOM, relational and non-relational database technologies. Shell scripting and Unix commands.
• Knowledge & experience in Microservices and automated integration testing.

Benefits of Working Here:

• Gender-Neutral Policy
• 18 paid holidays throughout the year.
• Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
• Flexible work arrangements
• Employee Assistance Programs to help you in wellness and well-being.

A Tip from the Hiring Manager:

• Ideal candidates will have prior experience in resource management from a consulting/technology firm.
• This person should be highly organized, adapt quickly to change, and thrive in a fast-paced organization.
• This is a job for the curious, make-things-happen kind of person. Someone who thinks like an entrepreneur and can motivate and move their team to achieve and drive impact.