- Company Name
- MMD Services
- Job Title
- Sr. Program Manager
- Job Description
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Job Title: Sr. Program Manager
Role Summary: Senior Program Manager overseeing technology initiative intake, prioritization, and governance for a global automotive digital transformation. Drives alignment between business strategy and portfolio delivery, enhances PMO maturity, and ensures adherence to Agile delivery practices.
Expectations: Deliver structured intake processes, prioritize initiatives against strategic objectives and capacity, maintain governance frameworks, build program roadmaps, provide executive reporting, and lead continuous improvement of PMO processes.
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead intake and prioritization of technology initiatives, ensuring strategic fit and resource alignment.
• Establish and maintain governance frameworks for portfolio visibility, accountability, and consistency.
• Develop, update, and track program roadmaps, dependencies, and sequencing to maximize value.
• Partner with engineering, product, and business leaders to refine evaluation criteria, business cases, ROI, and resourcing feasibility.
• Facilitate portfolio reviews with senior leadership to drive decisions on priorities, trade-offs, and risk mitigation.
• Oversee execution of approved projects, enforcing governance standards, Agile practices, and success metrics.
• Champion PMO maturity evolution by implementing tools, templates, and reporting mechanisms.
• Drive continuous improvement of intake, tracking, and delivery processes for efficiency and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Serve as trusted advisor to C‑suite and technology leaders, providing data‑driven insights on project health, portfolio performance, and capacity utilization.
• Lead change management and communication to promote adoption of governance, tools, and best practices across global teams.
Required Skills:
• 8+ years program/project management in technology, software engineering, or digital transformation.
• Proven experience in governance, intake management, and prioritization frameworks at enterprise level.
• Deep understanding of SDLC, Agile delivery models, CI/CD, DevOps, and cloud environments.
• Proficiency with JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Project, and portfolio management tools.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• PMP, CSM, or SAFe certification preferred.
Required Education & Certifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• PMP, Certified ScrumMaster, or SAFe certification highly desirable.