Job Title - Agile Program Manager
Duration - 10 months
Location - Remote
Duties:
Client is looking for an experienced Agile Program Manager (APM) to support the Platform Infrastructure organization. In this role, you will drive execution and alignment across multiple infrastructure teams, overseeing the delivery of critical platform upgrades, cloud expansion, observability improvements, and scaling initiatives. This is a high-impact, hands-on role where you will own delivery execution across programs and ensure predictability, risk mitigation, and outcome alignment at scale.
The ideal candidate thrives in complex technical environments, can orchestrate cross-team work with clarity and agility, and brings strong stakeholder management skills to help teams deliver consistent, high-value outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Orchestrate the planning and execution of infrastructure programs across Platform Engineering, including:
- Ensure cross-team coordination for dependencies, timelines, and deliverables across infrastructure engineering teams.
- Proactively identify and resolve risks, blockers, and communication gaps; surface critical issues and drive alignment with engineering, TPMs, and PMs.
- Provide clear and consistent program status updates to partnering TPMs, PMs, and engineering leadership, focusing on delivery predictability, risks, and key milestones.
- Enable value flow visibility using delivery metrics (e.g., carryover, WIP, forecast accuracy); partner with engineering to drive continuous improvement.
- Facilitate or support agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives, and quarterly planning to improve delivery health and scope alignment.
- Maintain strong working relationships with engineering leads, TPMs, and operational partners to ensure consistent delivery and platform health.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in Agile Program Management or similar role, such as Scrum Master in a cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or DevOps environment.
- Proven ability to manage complex technical programs involving multiple teams and stakeholders in a SaaS or platform context.
- Strong technical understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes), infrastructure automation (e.g., Terraform), and CI/CD processes.
- Experience leading programs involving scalability, performance tuning, infrastructure modernization, or cloud expansion.
- Skilled in cross-functional communication, risk escalation, and facilitating delivery alignment in agile environments.
- Proficient with tools such as Jira, Confluence, delivery dashboards, and metrics-driven visibility.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with cloud region expansion, observability, autoscaling, or network failover automation.
- Ability to analyze and interpret delivery metrics to guide teams toward more predictable and mature execution.
- Delivery of high-priority infrastructure programs on schedule and with clear stakeholder alignment.
- Improved predictability and reduced risk across platform infrastructure execution.
- Increased visibility into value flow, enabling better planning, prioritization, and team alignment.
- Proactive communication that prevents bottlenecks and ensures timely escalations and decision-making.
Education:
Must have at minimum a bachelor's degree.
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Spectraforce Technologies
Sep 03, 2025