Program Manager at WI

Elite WorkForce•Franklin, WI

1d•Onsite

About The Position

WI is seeking a Program Manager for a 12-month contract position in Franklin, Wisconsin. This role requires a candidate with IT infrastructure program management experience, capable of driving program outcomes and partnering with engineering teams. The Program Manager will work closely with Infrastructure and Application development leaders to build alignment and visibility for strategic disaster recovery outcomes. This includes facilitating prioritization of work across engineering teams. The position involves organizing program/project details and communicating IT infrastructure terminology effectively.

Requirements

IT infrastructure program management experience.
Skills needed to drive program outcomes while partnering with engineering teams.
Ability to communicate and understand IT infrastructure terminology.
Experience managing infrastructure programs and/or managing disaster recovery planning efforts.
Ability to gather project requirements & details and build a project plan (work breakdown structure (WBS)).
Ability to coordinate/negotiate and communicate with customers impacted or involved in the program and release outcomes.
Ability to communicate, organize, and drive projects details with the engineering teams, while at the same time be able to elevate the messages for leadership and partners outside of network.
Experience working in both Agile and Waterfall.
Ability to break down the overall program into milestone goals.
Exhibits customer/client orientation.
Ability to work as part of a team and build collaborative cross-functional relationships.
Possesses strong decision-making ability.
Experience coordinating work across a minimum of 5+ Infrastructure and/or App Dev teams.
Excellent communicator both oral and written.
Strong organization and facilitation skills.
Good at taking care of ambiguity with strong analytical abilities.
Knowledge and experience with Agile frameworks is necessary.
Knowledge of agile planning practices.
Experience working with Jira Align and Jira.
Understanding of how to build Epics and Features in Jira Align.

Nice To Haves

Experience specifically in Network Program Management.
Experience managing Disaster Recovery planning efforts.
Excellent documentation skills to outline Disaster Recovery plans.
Certified Scaled Agile Framework Product Owner/Product Manager.
Scrum Master experience.
Prior Product Owner or Product Manager experience.
Knowledge of Change/Release Management framework and best practices desired.

Responsibilities

Drive program outcomes while partnering with engineering teams to successfully deliver outcomes.
Communicate and understand IT infrastructure terminology to aid in organizing program/project details.
Work closely with Infrastructure and Application development leaders to build alignment and visibility of the work needing to be delivered on strategic disaster recovery outcomes.
Work closely with Infrastructure and Application development teams to build alignment, and plan the work needing to be delivered on strategic disaster recovery outcomes.
Facilitate prioritization of work cross-functionally across engineering teams.
Gather project requirements & details and build a project plan (work breakdown structure (WBS)) depicting the activities that need to occur and by when in order to deliver on the outcomes.
Coordinate/negotiate and communicate with customers impacted or involved in the program and release outcomes in a consistent fashion.
Communicate, organize, and drive projects details with the engineering teams, while at the same time being able to elevate the messages for leadership and partners outside of network.
Break down the overall program into milestone goals to which the project team can drive.
Coordinate work across a minimum of 5+ Infrastructure and/or App Dev teams.
Build collaborative cross-functional relationships.
Build Epics and Features in Jira Align.