Lead Technical Program Manager

Title: Lead Technical Program Manager

Location: O'Fallon MO - LOCAL PREFERRED. Local will get first priority. If not local, must be able to be onsite from Day 1. No relocation time.

NO GLIDER REQUIRED.

Duration: 12 months

As always for a TPM with Client we need someone hands on technical with the below top 3 technical skills.

Ideal profile is someone who began as a Software Engineer and then moved up into Technical Program Manager roles.

Must have technical program delivery experience and experience in payments as well.

Job Description Summary

OVERVIEW

Are you a technical program manager who wants to shape the cloud platform for Client's products? Do you want to work for a company that offers above and beyond benefits including paid parental leave, flexible work hours, gift matching, and even volunteer incentives? Do you want to work in an inclusive and nurturing culture that encourages your own professional learning and development?

ROLE

We are breaking up our monoliths and re-platforming features into re-usable micro-services and APIs while we continue to innovate and deliver results for our customers. All net new capabilities will be built on the cloud platform supporting multi-tenancy and multi-geography capabilities for the company. We are looking for experienced technical program management professionals to join our team and help us build towards the future. Our Technical Program Managers (TPM) conceptualize, rationalize, and drive multiple simultaneous projects to deliver engineering work across the portfolio in our scrum execution model. In this role, you get to dive as deep as you want into the tech stack, the integration patterns, the organizational capabilities, and the company wide assets that can be leveraged to provide technical solutions to customer problems. You will contribute to the strategies, design choices, and even the cloud infrastructure necessary to build comprehensive believable and achievable execution plans to deliver high-profile new features and capabilities for our customers. You may drive the execution of a feature through the full stack or may drive a project which spans multiple teams and integrations, reporting meaningful status along the way.

ALL ABOUT YOU

Demonstrated ability to operate with independence and autonomy

Experience defining and building cloud-native software products as a platform at scale with a deep understanding of those platforms capabilities and underlying technologies.

Demonstrated experience breaking down problems, organizing work, planning sprints, and delivering technical programs in agile delivery models (scrum, Kanban, etc.)

Experience working on programs to define and build cloud-native software products as a platform at scale

Enjoys diving deep to understand of the platforms capabilities and underlying technologies.

Proven track record of data driven decision-making and applying continuous improvement methodologies across teams

Can debate the delivery strategy with business teams, architects, engineers, and designers

Can communicate to executives, peers, and staff with impact, eloquence, and authenticity

Demonstrated experience building relationships, partnering with and influencing dependent teams while commanding the respect of the individuals you work with across the organization

Huge plus if you have expertise in Payments, IaaS, PaaS, serverless technology, CI/CD, NoSQL databases, microservices APIs, and distributed systems operations in a DevOps model

BS in engineering, computer science or related discipline.

Technical program delivery experience including time developing and testing software

Would you please confirm the duration of this assignment? - 2 Years

What are your top 3 required technical skills?

Experience defining and building cloud-native software products as a platform at scale with a deep understanding of those platforms' capabilities and underlying technologies

Expertise in Payments, IaaS, PaaS, serverless technology, CI/CD, NoSQL databases, microservices APIs, and distributed systems operations in a DevOps model

Technical program delivery experience including time developing and testing software

What are a couple of desired/nice to have skills?

Proven track record of data driven decision-making and applying continuous improvement methodologies across teams

Work across teams to organize and accelerate delivery by ensuring all teams are delivering in a coordinated manner, identifying and removing blockers, and always finding the path forward in challenging situations.

Understand the business strategy and design approaches within product, program, or domain with depth to be credible and effective with teams you work with. Act as first point of contact for your team or area and the source of truth for status, providing the right information and associated data about the state of the project to the right audience at the right time

What soft skills would you like to see in a candidate?

Can communicate to executives, peers, and staff with impact, eloquence, and authenticity

Experience building relationships, partnering with, and influencing dependent teams while commanding the respect of the individuals you work with across the organization

Demonstrated ability to operate with independence and autonomy

What level of competency is required? Please use: Foundational, Intermediate, or Advanced - Advanced

What will be your interview process? Phone, Teams, Zoom, On Site - Teams

Please outline interview block times below to ensure candidate availability (subject to change) - 1st Round 45 minutes, 2nd 30-45 minutes, followed by a 30-45 minute bar raiser for program