Senior Technical Program Manager
3 Months
Holtsville, NY 11742 (Hybrid Onsite: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday)
Shift time: 8:30 am-5pm EST
Years of experience required: 10+ Years
 
Position Specific Information:

• Travel Requirements (as a % of time): 25-50%
• Able to telework? Yes; if yes, % of time and expectations while teleworking - 50%

 
Role:

• Team is looking for Project management experience that includes a history of cross functional initiative execution with appropriate change management and a background that shows the ability to work across an organization, communicating at an executive level.
• Technical competence with Agile/SW PM experience with a history of bringing SaaS solutions to market is also essential.

 
Job Requirements

• Minimum Education: BS Electrical Engineering or Computer Science degree, or related technical BS degree, with MS preferred
• Minimum Work Experience (years): 10-12 years Engineering/Program management and Scrum Master
• experience for products in fast paced environment including minimum 2 years as team supervisor / manager.

Key Skills and Competencies:

• Strong strategic leadership and analytical skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Solid critical thinking and questioning skills
• Experience leading large cross-functional teams
• Self-motivated, results driven, manages risks, and thrives in an environment of uncertainty and continuous innovation.
• Able to drive definition and creation of solutions from skeleton use cases
• Experienced team builder, great at collaboration and managing resources; proven interpersonal skills
• Past responsibility for multiple significant delivered-to-market solutions in asset intelligence (Location Services, Machine Learning, Machine Vision).
• Advanced expertise with software development best practices including Scaled Agile, TDD and Continuous Integration; a track record of applying these methodologies
• Advanced expertise with Cloud development and Software/Services development integration, as well as mobile application development for Android or iOS.
• Advanced expertise working independently and as part of a team to solve difficult technical, quality, cost, and schedule challenges, expert in risk management practices

Job Summary:

• A senior functional leader who operates effectively across all levels of the organization and collaborates with diverse teams to drive strategic initiatives aligned to the company’s vision.
• Demonstrated expertise in applying Change Management principles to ensure successful adoption of enterprise initiatives is essential.
• The ideal candidate brings deep experience in Agile-driven software program management, along with a proven track record leading AI-driven transformation and digital automation initiatives that deliver measurable value in complex enterprise environments.
• This role serves as a senior program management leader with a strong technical and solutions-oriented focus.
• The position partners closely with Engineering, Product Management, Marketing, Legal, IT, and other cross-functional stakeholders to define initiative scope, success criteria, execution plans, deliverables, and timelines.
• The role is accountable for the oversight, negotiation, and authorship of initiative outcomes, driving results through a highly collaborative, cross-functional approach.
• Effective relationship management across a broad ecosystem of business functions and diverse stakeholder interests is essential to success in this role.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Drive execution of solutions inclusive of concept definition, requirements validation, architecture specification, and governance compliance to our Application Lifecycle Management framework.
• Demonstrates the ability to see cross-functional impacts of decisions and project plans and execution.
• Balances scope, schedule and budget considerations to adjust the project with minimal impact to the business.
• Understands the business objectives of the program and assumes personal accountability for success of the program against those objectives.
• Establishes standards of performance across programs that are typically complex in nature with cross-functional teams in numerous locations and time zones.
• Drives continuous improvement initiatives to improve quality, increase efficiency and accelerate time to market.
• Ability to translate customer problems into solution requirements.
• Works independently with business in defining proof of value and customer’s return on investment.
• Leads creating cross functional workstreams and driving execution for sales enablement, development and deployment.
• Independently building relationships and working across all relevant areas of the solution business including Sales, Services, IT, Finance, Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Support.
• Organizes and presents business, technical and program reviews/status to Senior Leadership using digital media, dashboards and JIRA agile project management tools.
• Recognized as an "expert" in the business function and processes in which the program is operating
• Motivate a project team to ensure solutions are reliable and of quality, in a highly collaborative fashion
• Independently coordinates deliverables and project assets to assist the project team.
• Personally anticipates and addresses obstacles or issues that are moderate to significant in severity and escalates complex issues to management for assistance.
• Independently engages additional resources as needed to address obstacles or delays.
• Adjusts the plan per management guidelines as delays or obstacles are experienced.
• Demonstrates advanced understanding of development processes and product launch scope and activities
• No supervision by management is expected in this position for complex or novel problems.
• Explore and understand competitive landscape in both product and business terms.
• Define strategic initiatives to align the business to agile product development.
• Work closely with Portfolio Management to ensure strategic goals align and are represented in the innovation feature roadmap.
• Lead development of business plans, strategies and approaches to take advantage of business opportunities.

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 55.00/hr.