Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ford Motor Company is a global automotive leader committed to transforming the future of mobility. They are seeking a Technical Project Manager to manage complex, cross-team programs within the Enterprise Technology domain, focusing on delivering high-quality work through Agile methodologies.
Responsibilities
- Play the role of “Technical Project Manager” managing one or more teams aligned to one of many Agile Release Train (ART)
- Be first line of defense to shield delivery teams from planned and unplanned needs for various purposes
- Collaborate with Transformation leadership team to develop Objective and Key Results (OKR’s)
- Manage intake process for the program and coordinate intakes through the phases of assessment, estimation & planning
- Manage scope change management practices and drive governance to ensure strong scope change control
- Drive and oversee coordination of cross-functional teams involved in the transformation to support all aspects of the program
- Manage the weekly forums of health measurement, dashboard generation, status reporting, risk monitoring, issue escalations, process audit & reporting
- Maintain the data sanity in tools like Jira, Confluence & SharePoint
- Enhance quality standards to be followed across the teams
- Be first line of integration with teams external to the program for cross dependency tracking e.g. with Insurance, Integration Services
- Monitor process adherence & activate remediation protocols where needed
- Provide support to other transformational services e.g. Organization Change Management, User Training, Knowledge Retention etc. using the data available in various tools
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or relevant area of study or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
- 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, etc
- Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related area
- Certification in Project or Program Management such as PMP, etc
- Certification in Lean-Agile practices, such as Certified Scrum Master or SAFe
- Experience managing complex programs with solutions relying on cloud-native technologies
- 12+ 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
- Experience of administration and control of use access, workflows, trackers in JIRA and Confluence
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
- Tuition assistance
- Established and active employee resource groups
- Paid time off for individual and team community service
- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
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