Title: Senior Program Manager
Location: Jersey City, NJ
Type: Contract
Job ID: 8122-1
Mode of Interview: IN PERSON
Looking for a Sr program manager - for Engineering services - also can be seen as delivery manager/portfolio manager/technical experience/knowledge
They should be able to plan, meet leadership team to learn what is looking for from the team. Some one can take the initiative and work on cross organization efforts.
PM should be helpful in speaking with teams outside of team and understand their requests for ES and help ES in making the right decisions.
Assess resourcing and process and help ES team and leadership team in making right decisions
Job Description: Senior Program Manager Purpose of the Role Build the Engineering Services (ES) program, combining portfolio oversight and hands-on project management. Establish intake, prioritization, and reporting while running projects. Supporting project managers handle priority or complex initiatives; product/service managers retain smaller, less complex service projects.
Specific Responsibilities
Demand Intake and Value Review
• Manage intake requiring project owners and product/service managers to submit analysis of the problem, expected value, strategic fit, urgency, assumptions, and supporting evidence.
• Review owner-supplied assessments for completeness, evidence, and consistent use of agreed value criteria. Seek clarification from owners; identify duplicate demand, reuse opportunities, and gaps requiring further analysis.
Prioritization and Capacity Planning
• Compare ES demand using agreed value, risk, mandatory commitment, dependency, and capacity criteria. Present prioritization recommendations and tradeoffs to senior management; record their decisions.
• Consolidate planned, unplanned, and business-as-usual demand. Confirm estimates and availability with engineering leads; recommend project resourcing and sequencing for senior management approval.
Program Oversight and Project Management
• Coordinate engineering, product/service teams, business units, and partners around milestones and dependencies. Verify commitments, challenge dates, secure recovery plans, and escalate decisions with options.
• Manage assigned projects from planning through transition, including schedules, risks, budgets, change control, and acceptance. Retain day-to-day project management until agreed handoffs; coach supporting project managers. Agree workload priorities with leadership and escalate capacity conflicts.
Portfolio Reporting and Accountability
• Recommend PM support based on priority, complexity, risk, and cross-business-unit dependencies. Request owners retain value assessments and outcomes; engineering leads retain technical decisions and quality. Senior management approves priorities, PM support, and resourcing.
• Maintain lightweight, repeatable reporting from existing tools and owner-validated updates, with agreed red/amber/green (RAG) criteria, cadence, and data checks; deepen reporting as capacity permits.
• Synthesize portfolio RAG status, highlights, cross-project trends, risks, decisions needed, and owner-validated benefits against baselines for senior management and C-level leaders; promptly escalate material exceptions.
Requirements
Education and Experience
• Bachelor's degree in information technology, business, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience building program processes while managing projects; assessing owner-prepared business cases; presenting portfolio and capacity recommendations; facilitating stakeholders; and coaching project managers.
Program and Portfolio Expertise
• Value review. Consistent evaluation criteria, evidence assessment, and owner-led benefits reporting.
• Portfolio reporting. Capacity analysis, data quality, status measures, and executive recommendations.
• Program and project management. Dependencies, budgets, risks, change control, stakeholder alignment, and follow-through.
• Working practices. Pragmatic Agile and Kanban, technical lifecycle awareness, and Jira or comparable tools.
Preferred Experience
• Experience with shared technology services, cloud, identity, or integration portfolios; establishing practical intake and prioritization practices; relevant project management or Agile certification.
Regards
Dharma Teja Kotagiri
ERP Analysts, Inc.
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