Associate Director - Technical Program Manager

Summary

Join Nagarro as a Technical Program Manager and drive end-to-end delivery across Strategy and Transformation's core priorities. Collaborate across functions to accelerate client digital transformation, providing delivery governance and execution oversight. This hands-on role includes people management responsibility for Scrum Masters. You will manage multiple, cross-functional programs, from conception to delivery. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in technical program management, Agile methodologies, and software development, along with strong leadership and communication skills.

Requirements

• Must have Skills: SAFe, Technical delivery
• 14+ years of work experience, or 3-5 years of experience as a Delivery Lead / Technical Program Manager, either in CPG delivery teams or with a Top-Tier consulting firm
• Experience with Agile, object-oriented modelling, web services, middleware, database, and data mining systems
• The ideal technical program manager (TPM) will be highly quantitative, have great judgment, able to connect dots across workstreams, identify critical program dependencies, and have a strong track record of delivery
• The TPM lead will have a pragmatic approach and iterative approach to building software including the ability to simplify and get things done with a demonstrated track record of building and delivering software and working effectively with external and internal teams
• The TPM lead will dive deep to understand including the infrastructure, dataset dependencies for local requirements for feature/application deployments, integration testing requirements before deployment
• Exceptional business relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions
• A good understanding of SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) models and a track record of shipping software efficiently
• Ability to recognize the difference between building software and shipping software
• Strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional, projects
• Experience in leading high-performing teams
• Deep hands-on technical expertise, excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Sharp analytical abilities and proven design skills

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end technical program management across a multiple, cross-functional programs from initial conception, through design and development, to delivery of tested, useable prototypes
• Work across cross-functional partners (engineering, business, and design) to identify scope, constraints, dependencies, risks, and timelines across programs
• Lead team of Scrum Masters supporting complex transformation programs by coaching them on specific tools, frameworks, and processes related to DevSecOps
• Deliver proactively to identify technical, procedural, legal, logistical, and communication challenges and partner with leads to drive creative solutions to resolve issues and mitigate risks
• Coordinate communications across internal and external teams, including upwards communication to team leadership
• Frequent communication with program leadership to shape and deliver on the product roadmap, and requires to nimbly switch between strategic and tactical initiatives to achieve technical, and business goals

Preferred Qualifications

Good To Have Skills: Azure Pipeline Management (Expert)