Program Manager/Engineering

Responsibilities

• Build comprehensive, end to end project plans which span from the inception of a project through to completion.
• Create Project plans collaboratively with your peers and colleagues.
• Capture business facing milestones & critical path deliverables and track towards them.
• Work with Engineering Leads and Product Managers to refine business requirements into technical stories and tasks.
• Demonstrate effective project estimation using industry standard estimation methods (PDU, Story Points, Shirt Sizes, Complexity, etc.).
• Effectively and accurately capacity planning from both a sprint and increment perspective.
• Always have a mind on improving the capability of a team to deliver.
• Analyze, the impact of unanticipated risks that may occur during a project and come up with collaborative mitigation strategies to ensure they do not happen wherever possible.
• Document issues as they arise, implement mitigation strategies, and effectively communicate impacts on not only the project the issue is related to, but any other "knock on impacts as a result."
• Manage scope, risks & issues, resolving at the lowest level and escalating as needed.
• Assigning tasks to project team members.
• Provide regular updates to senior leadership within Jefferies.
• Effectively manage change requests and potential scope creep utilizing data such as time, complexity & effort.
• Identify, scoping & developing ways to improve the delivery capability of teams.
• Understand impacts across Madison & bring teams together to work collaboratively.
• Fluent in both Agile & Waterfall methodologies as it relates to project management, and identifying the appropriate project management process as it relates to the project and applying fit for purpose solutions to successfully manage a project from start to finish.

Qualifications

• A proven track record of delivering complex products that include CRM and / or Reporting deliveries.
• Clear and defined leadership ability to take charge, own a deliverable and carry it through ideation to deployment.
• Identifying, scoping & developing ways to improve the delivery capability of teams.
• Ability to quickly identify, manage risks and issues, resolving them at the lowest level and escalating /communicating approach when needed to the appropriate individuals.
• Understanding impacts across Madison & bringing teams together to work collaboratively.
• Experience in Financial Services software development projects.
• Proven track record of successful delivery of complex, cross workstream dependent projects.
• Experience in either an agile or iterative development workstream, with an ability to apply best practices from Waterfall, sAFE, etc. when & where needed.
• Experience with Atlassian stack as well as industry best of breed tools examples include: Jira, Confluence, Structure, EazyBI, Microsoft Suite.
• Experience with AWS technology stack and Kafka are preferred.