Lead IT development projects that support the creation and delivery of our industry-leading financial technology SaaS platform and serves as a leader and authority with expert-level knowledge in one or more areas.   Duties will include:

• Partnering with senior leaders, product managers, and development managers across the entire organization to understand priorities and execute strategic program objectives for software design and development projects.
• Driving the development of complex software engineering program plans across a number of distributed teams within the Engineering organization using the Agile development process.
• Acts to set the cross organizational strategy for program management.
• Promotes innovation and actively seeks opportunities to innovate and collaborate with others to achieve innovative outcomes.
• Serving as a software engineering subject-matter expert on requirements definition, design and development, testing and implementation.
• Coordinating with external clients and the implementation team for end-to-end software engineering program planning and delivery.
• Facilitating program delivery by tracking feature-based delivery timelines.
• Anticipating problems and complications and formulating engineering solutions to avoid impeding the progress of the program.
• Conducting and managing weekly meetings with cross-functional software development and engineering teams to drive program progress.
• Producing clear and concise status reports for executive leadership.
• Supporting the definition and rollout of standardized Software Development Life Cycle practices within the organization.
• Recognizing opportunities to use new or unique ideas and suggesting novel solutions to operational problems.
• Coaching employees through the change process; providing direction and steering to encourage successful performance during change or transition.
• Taking actions to persuade and adjust discourse during presentation or debate to achieve a better outcome.
• Using knowledge of formal and informal structures to drive support for achieving objectives.

Requirements:

Position requires a Bachelors degree (or an equivalent foreign degree) in Computer Science, Computer  System Engineering, IT or a closely related field and 4 years of experience as an IT Program Manager.  Must also have 4 years of experience (which can have been gained concurrently with the primary experience requirement above) working with the following:

• Software planning tool chains (Aha, JIRA, Confluence, MS Project and ServiceNow)
• Testing management tools including Xray and TestRail; and
• Continuous integration/Continuous Development and common programming frameworks including Angular and .Net.

This is a hybrid position working both at the companys office in Weston, Massachusetts and at a home office on a weekly schedule agreed to with the manager.