About this role
Position Summary: We are looking for a Program Manager to coordinate and govern the portfolio of Data Engineering, DevOps, and Platform Engineering initiatives across the enterprise. Rather than running a single project, you'll orchestrate multiple related projects toward broader business outcomes — owning program strategy, delivery governance, intake, financials, and risk. You'll be the bridge between engineering squads and business/leadership stakeholders, ensuring the right work is prioritized, planned, and delivered predictably. Reports into Data & AI leadership.
Key Responsibilities: Program Strategy & Business Alignment:
• Translate business objectives into a coordinated program roadmap across Data, DevOps, and Platform teams. • Ensure every initiative ladders up to a measurable business outcome. • Partner with engineering leads to sequence work, balance capacity, and manage cross-squad dependencies. Multi-Project Coordination & Delivery Governance:
• Govern delivery across concurrent projects using NXP's project management methodology. • Facilitate sprint planning, backlog grooming, and cross-team ceremonies to keep squads unblocked. • Run delivery governance — status cadences, milestone tracking, RAID logs, and steering reviews. • Track program KPIs — predictability, milestone adherence, throughput, and quality. Intake Coordination & Demand Management:
• Own intake for new demand — capturing, triaging, and prioritizing requests into the backlog. • Coordinate the request desk, ensuring work is assessed, sized, and routed to the right team. • Translate business requirements (BRD) into epics and user stories with engineering leads. Financial & Resource Management:
• Own program financials — budget planning, tracking, forecasting, and variance management. • Manage resource allocation and capacity planning and support headcount/vendor planning. Risk & Stakeholder Management:
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks and issues across all workstreams. • Manage stakeholders across the program lifecycle, communicating progress, trade-offs, and decisions. • Provide regular, executive-ready reports and dashboards to senior management. What Success Looks Like (First 6–12 Months):
• In your first 6–12 months, you'll establish a clear program governance framework, stand up a reliable intake and prioritization process, improve delivery predictability across squads, and give leadership clear visibility into progress, risks, and spend.
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's/Master's in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field, or an MBA. • 8+ years in project/program management, including multiple concurrent projects and teams. • Proven experience with Agile delivery and sprint planning in a software/data engineering environment. • Strong track record in delivery governance — status reporting, milestone tracking, and steering forums. • Hands-on experience with intake coordination and demand management for engineering teams. • Experience with program financials — budgeting, forecasting, and cost tracking. • Strong risk management, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills. • Certified project/program management credential (PMP, Prince2, SAFe etc) is preferred.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience managing catalog-based intake or a service catalog for engineering demand. • Experience running a request desk / demand management function. • Ability to translate BRDs into epics and user stories (BRD → Story). • Familiarity with Data & AI, Databricks, cloud platforms, or DevOps delivery contexts. • Working knowledge of tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or ServiceNow. • Background in semiconductor, manufacturing, or large-scale enterprise IT environments is preferred.
Competencies:
• Outcome orientation — focuses on delivering business outcomes, not just activity. • Orchestration — coordinates teams, priorities, and dependencies with clarity and calm. • Governance discipline — brings structure, cadence, and transparency to complex delivery. • Stakeholder influence — drives alignment across engineering and business without direct authority. • Clear communication — translates between technical detail and executive messaging.
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