As the Senior Manager of the Engineering Program Management Office (PMO), you will lead the Engineering Program Managers and work with Wind River’s Engineering and Product Management teams to drive delivery across a broad range of products, projects, and initiatives. Your work will directly impact our company’s velocity, agility, and market penetration. The Senior Manager, PMO will play a pivotal role in driving predictability and agility across engineering, creating supporting process infrastructure, and ensuring engineering commitments are consistently met.

The successful candidate will work with nearly all groups within Wind River, including other parts of the Engineering Leadership Team and Product management as products and initiatives are shepherded from inception to delivery. This includes supporting existing in-flight programs and driving new initiatives.

Interface & Collaboration

• The successful candidate will work and collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure high levels of process awareness and a compliance-driven mindset.
• Drive transformation of product development to the next level of Agile, LEAN, CI/CD execution in a way that is optimized for Wind River
• Managing a team of Engineering Program Managers (EPM), including performance assessment and career development through a transformational period
• Enable EPM team to program manage in an Agile world and become Agile Champions for the organization
• Drive and lead cross-product group release planning, execution, and status reporting
• Drive schedule and content commitment between Engineering and Product Management for cross-product releases
• Identify and resolve impediments, risks, dependencies, and scope changes for cross-product releases
• Maintain engagement with business teams, product owners, and technical leads to ensure strategy and execution alignment for cross-product releases
• Ensure that all stakeholders are well informed of the objective, scope, timelines, status, risks, and issues of the planned deliverables for engineering
• Create an environment allowing mutual influence, collaboration, and self-organization
• Drive continuous improvement across all engineering teams in conjunction with the EPM team

ABOUT YOU

• Core Competencies & Demonstrated Success
• Experience in strategizing, executing, and delivering large programs.
• Experience in SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, and Lean Methodologies.
• Experience in adhering to secure development processes and practices.
• Experience in complying with quality management processes and practices.
• Ability to analyze and think quickly and to resolve conflict.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and mentoring skills.
• Ability to work with and lead a team.
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a relevant field preferred.
• Solid experience in leading a Program Management Office (PMO) with 5+ years of program management experience, in a cloud, SAAS, or embedded software environment
• Experience leading cross-product transformation with Agile, LEAN, and CI/CD expertise
• Strong understanding of other methodologies such as waterfall
• Practical experience using agile techniques and frameworks, such as Scrum, and Kanban, to deliver software solutions.
• Must have demonstrated strong leadership qualities in previous positions with the ability to influence others
• Must have 5+ years of people management experience
• Must be a collaborative and strong team player
• Individual must have excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Nice to have PMI-ACP certification.
• Nice to have Agile Product Owner or Scrum Master certifications (PSPO, CSPO, POPM, CSM, SAFe SPC, etc.).
• In-depth working knowledge of Jira and Confluence