Four years ago we invented converged infrastructure. Today we dominate the market worldwide. At VCE, we were formed by Cisco, EMC and VMware with investments from Intel. We’re now a billion dollar company and we haven’t come close to tapping our true potential. Here, as a Product Manager, you’ll join a high-performance engineering organization working with teams of engineers and designers to build the next generation of VCE products, services and solutions. You’ll work with the latest data center technologies. And you’ll have the opportunity to transform the world of IT. If rapid growth and constant change is an environment you thrive in, you’ll discover that your ideas, your passion and your ambition will power our future. Incredible happens here. And we want you to be a part of it.
Title: Consultant Program Manager – Software Products and Operations
Location: Richardson, US
Job Description
The VCE Engineering Services Program Management Office has an exciting and challenging opportunity for an experienced program manager to drive all major software product development efforts. This person will lead the core VCE software delivery programs working collaboratively with cross functional teams along with enhancing the agile development process from team level to enterprise. The Engineering PMO leads all major programs within VCE to integrate and drive best practices with best-of-breed products, to enable the most efficient alignment of large-scale enterprise applications, IT workloads with a common, physical, converged infrastructure that is easy to manage, adapt, and scale. We are looking for energetic, passionate people to develop, execute and promote the VCE vision.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
Manages technical programs, projects and initiatives affecting area goals and objectives
- Leads multiple cross-functional program teams.
- Supports program teams in monitoring the execution, progress, and risks of project deliverables and overall program elements.
- Coordinates program meetings, communicates status, readiness, business issues, technical issues, resource requirements and their resolution across functional organizations and management.
- Facilitates and organizes Program level stand-up meetings, iteration sizing and planning, retrospectives, and demonstrations
- Collaborates with Product Owners, Engineering and IT leads to plan releases and ensure backlog maintenance
- Tracks teams velocity and plans accordingly
- Ensures the delivery teams are practicing agile methodology and engineering best practices
- Identifies and removes any impediments or obstacles that prevents the delivery team from attaining sprint goals
- Reports schedule progress, team status and issues to senior management
- Mentors and educates scrum team members in the practical benefits of agile processes
- Cultivates a team that recognizes the value of agile development and uses that recognition to improve
- Fosters a culture of continuous improvement, creativity, and innovation
- Aids the Scrum team with determining suitable commitments for stories, defects, and tasks
- Coordinates and schedules the execution of deliverables across multiple teams
- Protects time allocated to the Scrum team to explore innovative solutions to business and technical problems
- Prioritizes technical debt
- Champions continuous improvements in processes and development techniques applied by the delivery team and the entire development organization by collaborating with other Scrum Masters, Scrum of Scrum, and management staff to influence.