Agile Program Delivery Director

Cognizant Technology Solutions-posted 4 months ago
$113,459 - $195,000/Yr
Full-time • Senior
Wilmington, DE
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
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Experienced Program Director with 10+ years in IT, specializing in Agile delivery across cross-functional teams. I lead strategic planning, manage complex dependencies, and drive continuous improvement using Lean methodologies. Known for pragmatic leadership, stakeholder alignment, and delivering high-impact digital solutions.

  • Accountable for initiative level planning and alignment, data-based forecasting, reporting, and identifying and resolving program level risks, dependencies, impediments and blockers.
  • Responsible for end-to-end delivery quality, managing the flow of work across several delivery squads, the impact of dependencies, and progress towards key deliveries within and across squads.
  • Enable continuous improvement and high-quality outcomes through the application of Agile methodologies, as well as analyzing and improving the squads by acting on metrics.
  • Support Principal Delivery Leads in the successful project delivery, collaborating with multiple teams.
  • Communicate with a wide range of stakeholders and client teams, aligning them to the delivery strategy and ensuring shared understanding of reporting and desired outcomes.
  • Influence Squads to adopt Lean/Agile practices and improve ways of working with pragmatism.
  • Become a trusted advisor to the technical and product leads collaborating with them to deliver business and user value.
  • BS/BA degree or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of IT experience.
  • Delivered a range of digital products to customers using Lean/Agile methodologies, including Kanban.
  • Led and supported multidisciplinary teams that have included designers, testers, developers and product managers.
  • Bring a history of championing Lean/Agile ways of working, adapting to delivery frameworks and recommending improvements without being dogmatic.
  • Managed and worked within budgets and time-pressured environments.
  • Used delivery data to forecast key deliverables and communicate a project's status clearly with senior clients and stakeholders.
  • Proactively spotted risks to delivery and helped teams mitigate them.
  • Great facilitation, diplomacy and negotiation skills.
  • Ideally experience of the Atlassian toolset Jira and Confluence.
  • Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
  • Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
  • 401(k) plan and contributions
  • Long-term/Short-term Disability
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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