IT Program Manager

Are you interested in shaping a highly effective agile organization? Are you excited about the opportunity to influence others? Are you passionate about fostering vital connections that will help to make our company, partners and customers more productive and profitable? If your answer is yes to any of these questions, this is your opportunity to join an innovative and dynamic team. As a member of the Rockwell Automation IT organization, you will join our transformation journey as we seek to improve and push boundaries.

This position requires self-initiative, ownership, excellent listening skills, responsiveness, collaboration, technical leadership expertise, time management, communication and business acumen. This position will be responsible for managing multifunction and multi-vendor efforts to plan, sell, implement, and support service solutions to address customers' complex business issues. May manage the integration and/or development and execution of deliverables directly to the customer and in support of major enterprise-wide projects and annual support agreements that often exceeds $5M in revenue. Global collaboration and project/support coordination will be needed as required.

A Program Manager supports a strategic objective of one or more IT customers, and thereby directs one or more specific projects that are initiated to accomplish that objective. Those individual projects will have individual goals (and, if warranted, individual project managers) but are linked together and have specific dependencies that require holistic management in order to assure achievement of the overall program objective.

Key Responsibilities:

Works as leader to ensure Capability teams and Key Strategic initiatives are executing according to IT Program Management playbook
Able to independently lead medium to large programs
Works with IT Business Partner to help document strategic roadmap at the Epic/Feature level, with emphasis on mapping dependencies across multiple Capability Teams
Helps uncover and coordinate strategic dependencies across teams, both by helping to facilitate Big Room Planning, and through coordination across execution
Program Managers may attend Backlog Grooming sessions, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives to better understand the cross-team dependencies
Program Managers may help groups of Product owners communicate to stakeholders, help groups of Scrum Masters identify and mitigate risks, and will facilitate large synchronization events that are required to align multiple teams on scope and commitments
Serve as an extension of IT Business Partners in working across teams to manage resource impediments, budgets, or vendor management
May help identify process improvement opportunities across teams for large-scale delivery and orchestration
Provides technical expertise in planning, execution, and leadership of program, projects, and initiatives
Promotes collaboration and coordination across broad categories of stakeholders

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
Bachelors Degree
Legal authorization to work in the US is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

Preferred Qualifications
Bachelors in Computer Science, Business Management, or related field
Masters Degree in related field
Typically requires 8 years leading IT/Business projects of varying complexity and global scope
PMI & PMP Agile Certification
Three+ years responsible for managing portfolio of IT/Business projects
Professional Certifications a plus (ITIL, Lean Six Sigma, Agile Coach etc )
Demonstrated experience in leading Agile team and driving change
Demonstrated success in communicating with key stakeholders at all levels of the organization
Demonstrated ability to balance competing requirements and interests, keep team focused on top priorities, and find ways to achieve win-win or obtain acceptance/consensus for best compromise