Professional Experience: 7+ years in Technical Program Management, Engineering Program Management, or Software Engineering.
Domain Knowledge: Experience serving as a TPM or Scrum Master specifically within a Data Engineering department.
Product Delivery Models: Strong understanding of traditional program management, SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban frameworks, coupled with expertise in Jira administration and workflow management.
Program Management Expertise: Expert in dependency management, risk management, and delivery projects from end to end.
Program Leadership: Proven ability to manage complex, cross-functional technical programs involving multiple distributed teams.
Soft Skills: Exceptional stakeholder coordination, facilitation, and problem-solving abilities.
Proactive Delivery & Execution Ownership
Drive End-to-End Delivery: Own the execution of technical initiatives, translating high-level objectives into actionable plans and managing cross-team dependencies.
Accelerate Progress: Actively remove impediments and "ruthlessly prioritize" the backlog to ensure the team remains focused on critical-path items that drive business value.
Ceremony Leadership: Lead key Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives) and manage the intake of ad-hoc items alongside major initiatives.
Queue Management: Monitor incoming request queues, surfacing new items to engineering to ensure they are tracked, estimated, and prioritized.
2. Technical SME & Risk Management
Technical Subject Matter Expertise: Become deeply familiar with the data architecture, system designs, and products of your teams to identify technical risks like architectural debt or integration issues early.
Strategic Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify and document risks and dependencies, developing and executing detailed mitigation plans before they become crises