Technical Program & Project Management Senior Specialist

Position Description:

This individual will be responsible to build & deploy products under the Industrial Systems Analytics in the GDIA space. Looking for someone with a technical background and exposure to GCP infrastructure. This person should have 9+ years of experience with leading product development & delivery experience along with software engineering practices, working in an Agile Environment. This person will have interactions with Ford leadership and needs to have good communication (both written and oral) and should feel empowered to lead up actions. They could also act as Scrum Masters or Agile Coaches to ensure team lives by the values and practices of scrum by embracing Agile/scrum/Kanban/Lean principles Key Responsibilities: 1. Develop project plans, define the project/program scope, goals and deliverables for areas of technology application development and implementation for the enterprise 2. Drive problem-solving and continuous improvement initiatives by collaborating with IT teams, technology vendors, etc. 3. Facilitate the development effort by creating and monitoring an efficient, streamlined process between the internal teams and external technology providers 4. Effectively communicate status updates to all stakeholders across multiple organizations/ teams, with reinforcing quantitative measurements 5. Ensure project and program objectives, deliverables and results are completed within the agreed scope, timeline, budget and allocated resources 6. Provide accurate and insightful analysis and reporting, presenting the data in a clear format for presentations and reviews 7. Identify risks and create risk mitigation plans to ensure timely completion of the projects/programs 8. Manage technology product goals and forecasts. Collaborate with technical development team(s) to translate the long-term objectives into actionable technology strategy and an implementation roadmap 9. Guide execution by applying standard frameworks and development lifecycle methodologies like agile, waterfall etc.

Skills Required:

Full Stack Java Developer, Jira, KANBAN, React, Agile Software Development, GitHub, Project Management, GCP

Skills Preferred:

Big Query,

Experience Required:

Senior Specialist Exp: 9+ years in IT; Complex Global Programs

Education Required:

Bachelor's Degree

Additional Information :

Responsibilities:

• Works closely with Product Owners to understand the business needs and contribute to product strategy

• Should clearly communicate product vision / strategy to team members and stakeholders

• Attend the required workshops to understand the product roadmap

• Responsible for developing product features, prioritizing the backlog, and managing risks while ensuring the iterations and releases are meeting the business objectives

• Verifies that the delivered software product meets desired business outcomes

• Process driven to adapt agile software processes, culture, best practices, and techniques

Qualifications Required Skills:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

• 5+ years of product development & management experience

• Knowledge in Angular, Java and Spring Boot development

• Experience/ Knowledge on Google Cloud Platform

• Technically inclined leader with experience/exposure of Java, Spring, APIs and Microservices

• Understanding the usage of tools like GitHub, Nexus, Jenkins/ Tekton

• Knowledge on implementation of DevOps and software craftsmanship practices like CI/CD, TDD, BDD, Pair Programming, Test automation tools • Resource needs to work with Product owner, Data Engineers and related stakeholders, and should be able to drive Product Solution

• Gathers customer and internal feedback to improve and suggest product roadmap

• Defines analytics to be collected regarding product, and prioritizes their collection across varied sources

• Identifies risks, and implements mitigation and contingency plans, focused on early mitigation or elimination of Risks

• Communicate often and openly with the team by being responsive to in-person prompts

• Enables team to build without impediment (removes blockers and trusts team iterations)

• Manage onboarding of new resources