Senior Manager Agile Program Manager - RTE

Saxon Global•Boston, MA

About The Position

Lead Agile Release Train (ART) planning, execution, and delivery across multiple Scrum teams, ensuring alignment to business priorities, milestones, and dependencies. Facilitate PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, risk management, and cross-team coordination to drive predictable program outcomes. Track program health, delivery metrics, and impediments, providing executive-level reporting and stakeholder communication. This role involves owning and maintaining the integrated platform roadmap (epics/features/enablers), release milestones, and dependency map across teams. It also requires driving cross-team dependency resolution (APIs, data contracts, shared components, security reviews, architecture approvals) and managing timeline/cost/risk/stakeholder decisions. The position also entails partnering with Architecture/Engineering leads to ensure alignment on target architecture, sequencing of platform capabilities, and technical enablers/tech debt plans. Additionally, it involves coordinating environment strategy and readiness, owning release readiness and governance, and establishing an execution cadence across distributed teams (EST/IST/UK). Finally, the role requires defining and tracking metrics & reporting tailored to platform delivery, including delivery predictability, quality, reliability/readiness, and platform adoption/readiness.

Requirements

Lead Agile Release Train (ART) planning, execution, and delivery.
Facilitate PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, risk management, and cross-team coordination.
Track program health, delivery metrics, and impediments.
Provide executive-level reporting and stakeholder communication.
Own and maintain integrated platform roadmap, release milestones, and dependency map.
Drive cross-team dependency resolution (APIs, data contracts, shared components, security reviews, architecture approvals).
Manage timeline/cost/risk/stakeholder decisions.
Partner with Architecture/Engineering leads on target architecture, sequencing, and tech debt.
Coordinate environment strategy and readiness.
Own release readiness and governance.
Establish and run execution cadence across time zones.
Enforce meeting outcomes and maintain decision log.
Define and track metrics & reporting for platform delivery.

Nice To Haves

Experience in the Asset Management Industry.

Responsibilities

Lead Agile Release Train (ART) planning, execution, and delivery across multiple Scrum teams.
Ensure alignment to business priorities, milestones, and dependencies.
Facilitate PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, risk management, and cross-team coordination.
Drive predictable program outcomes.
Track program health, delivery metrics, and impediments.
Provide executive-level reporting and stakeholder communication.
Own and maintain the integrated platform roadmap (epics/features/enablers), release milestones, and dependency map across teams.
Drive cross-team dependency resolution (APIs, data contracts, shared components, security reviews, architecture approvals).
Manage timeline/cost/risk/stakeholder decisions.
Partner with Architecture/Engineering leads to ensure alignment on target architecture, sequencing of platform capabilities, and technical enablers/tech debt plans.
Coordinate environment strategy and readiness: dev/test/UAT/stage/prod, test data, access provisioning.
Own release readiness and governance: entry/exit criteria, go/no-go, rollback plan, cutover checklist, comms plan.
Establish and run an execution cadence across time zones: ART, Scrum of Scrums, dependency triage, risk review.
Ensure clear overlap hours, handoffs, and asynchronous decision-making.
Enforce meeting outcomes: agenda, decisions, actions, owners, due dates; maintain decision log.
Define and track metrics & reporting tailored to platform delivery: delivery predictability, quality, reliability/readiness, platform adoption/readiness.