
Agile Program Manager
Posted Sep 9

Posted Sep 9
This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Pennsylvania.
• Facilitate Scrum events for designated teams, encompassing sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Assist in ensuring backlog readiness, planning sprint capacity, and enhancing visibility of dependencies.
• Guide the planning and execution of complex programs that involve multiple engineering teams, product areas, stakeholders, or workstreams.
• Define integrated program scope, anticipated outcomes, milestones, dependencies, risks, assumptions, capacity requirements, and decision points.
• Coordinate delivery across agile teams and structured initiatives, selecting delivery methodologies based on complexity, timing, governance, and business requirements.
• Lead program-level planning, reviews, risk discussions, dependency management, and decision-making across teams.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Product Delivery, Operations, and business stakeholders to align objectives and address cross-team challenges.
• Enhance visibility into program health, commitments, obstacles, changes, and expected results.
• Manage the escalation and resolution of cross-team risks, capacity limitations, and dependencies.
• Mentor teams and delivery partners on agile methodologies, continuous improvement, quality of planning, and cross-functional cooperation.
• Maintain program plans, logs of decisions and actions, records of risks and dependencies, milestone overviews, and reporting documents.
• Utilize delivery metrics and trend data to identify risks, enhance predictability, and support program-level decisions.
• Monitor KPIs associated with sprint predictability, milestone achievement, dependency health, risk aging, throughput, cycle time, and improvement initiatives.
• Provide unbiased reporting on program outcomes, reliability of planning, health of execution, and decision-making requirements.
• Must reside in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or New York.
• Regular attendance at the Philadelphia office is mandatory.
• Strong understanding of Scrum, agile delivery methods, iterative planning, and scaled coordination across teams.
• Practical experience in facilitating Scrum events and supporting backlog readiness, sprint planning, team capacity, and continuous enhancement.
• Advanced skills in program and project management, including integrated planning, scope management, milestone oversight, dependency coordination, risk management, capacity planning, and stakeholder communication.
• Capable of functioning effectively across agile and traditional delivery models, customizing the approach to meet program requirements.
• Ability to distill complex information, recognize systemic risks, and present decision-ready alternatives to senior leaders.
• Experience in defining and utilizing delivery KPIs, program health metrics, and trend data to boost predictability and execution.
• Strong leadership, facilitation, negotiation, and communication abilities across both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Exceptional organizational discipline, attention to detail, and follow-through across multiple concurrent priorities.
• Proficient in using Jira, Confluence, and standard program reporting tools.
• Verified experience as an Agile Program Manager, Senior Agile Project Manager, Scrum Master, Release Train Engineer, Technical Program Manager, or a similar role.
• Experience in facilitating Scrum events for engineering, platform, data, product, or technology teams.
• Proven track record of leading complex programs across multiple teams and workstreams, while ensuring effective team-level agile practices.
• Experience in managing cross-team dependencies, risks, capacity challenges, and delivery trade-offs.
• Experience in coordinating internal initiatives that require structured planning, milestone tracking, governance, and adherence to deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority and encourage accountability among senior technical and business stakeholders.
• Experience in leveraging metrics to enhance program predictability, process efficiency, quality of planning, and accountability in execution.
• Experience in conveying program health, critical decisions, and business ramifications to leadership.
• Candidates seeking employment in the US must possess valid work authorization that does not currently or will not in the future require visa sponsorship from IntegriChain.
• Excellent and affordable medical benefits.
• Additional non-medical perks.
• Flexible Paid Time Off.
• Comprehensive Learning & Development opportunities.
• Access to over 700+ development courses free for all employees.
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