Senior Administrator - Program & Project Management

Job Summary

Highly skilled and motivated Program Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of complex and large-scale cross-functional initiatives.
The Program Manager will be responsible for project definition, roadmap planning, resource planning, and project execution.
The ideal candidate will possess a strong understanding of program management, SDLC process, and Agile methodology, and will thrive in a collaborative environment with tight deadlines.

Key Responsibilities

• Program Ownership: Lead end-to-end delivery of a portfolio of initiatives that drive technology modernization and cost efficiency across the organization.

• Strategic Alignment: Partner with business, technology, and finance stakeholders to ensure programs align with enterprise strategy and financial goals.

• Execution Excellence: Define program scope, timelines, and success metrics; manage integrated plans, interdependencies, and risks.

• Governance & Reporting: Provide transparent updates to senior leadership and steering committees; ensure adherence to PMO standards.

• Team Leadership: Coordinate cross-functional teams including product managers, engineers, analysts, and vendors; influence without direct authority.

• Agile Practices: Apply Agile/Scaled principles where applicable to accelerate delivery and value realization.

• Estimate work efforts required to deliver the projects and create detailed plans for the team.

• Monitor the projects from initiation through delivery and interact with respective stakeholders to drive projects as per plan.

• Identify communication gaps, manage issue escalations, resolve dependencies, and support the teams.

• Responsible for reporting key metrics for sprint execution, test execution, bugs, issues, risk, etc. to the leadership/project team.

• Proactive oversight of the Change Management process needed to communicate and reset expectations due to unexpected variances to project scope and schedule.

• Ensure project closure activities including gathering/sharing lessons learned and facilitating post-mortems.

• Create management reports and presentations (as required) to keep project sponsor and other leaders and stakeholders up to date on the schedule and deliverable status.

• Should have a hands-on experience in managing PHP & PBI Projects. Experience on Python based projects will an added advantage.

Skill Requirements

• Good understanding of program management, SDLC process, and Agile methodology.
• Expertise in using project management tools like Jira
• Ability to thrive in complexity and collaborate with colleagues to deliver projects within tight deadlines.

Other Requirements

Attributes:

• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Proven ability to manage large-scale cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience in strategic alignment and execution excellence.
• Ability to provide transparent updates and adhere to PMO standards.
• Proactive approach to change management and project closure activities.
• Ability to create management reports and presentations.