NMS R&D Project Manager

Subfamily Description

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline
• 7+ years meaningful experience in networking/technology industry, with 4-5 years in a Program Management position and a demonstrated history and ability to take a leadership role in managing programs
• Proven history of driving successful programs and leading change with your programs.
• Outstanding written, presentation, and verbal communication skills.
• Practical work experience with Waterfall and Agile development methodologies
• Certification on PMI/PMP would be a plus.
• Drive and own full program life cycle from initiation to deployment. Develop and manage medium to complex multi-functional program schedules, identify risks, manage scope and monitor progress against plan, while always maintaining a solution orientation and a well-balanced perspective around risks and escalations.
• Identify, call out and drive resolution of issues that affect program schedule and feature scope.
• Define, generate, and assess metrics and key performance indicators for the program. Provide all vital data to support critical decision-making through fact-based analysis.
• Ensure effective communication within multi-functional teams: Operations, Engineering, Product Management, QA and Release Management.
• Your role requires strong people, data and communications; it requires excellent leadership, critical thinking, independence, organizational excellence, data analysis, presentation and communication skills.
• Experience working on medium to large-scale Enterprise Software programs.
• Experience in Optical technologies is a plus.
• Proactively establish practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships that impact the Enterprise products and solutions
• Comfortable interpreting data to translate and present as business insights.
• Participate and facilitate teams working through technical challenges and decisions. Experience contributing to design and architecture discussions and test strategies.
• Experience with Software Development and Release Management experience a plus.
• Solve sophisticated problems and drive programs and solutions for solving those problems
• Work independently to design, plan, and implement technical projects; distil data and eloquent rationale for making difficult trade-offs.