IT Program Manager

Context

Our client is looking to strengthen their agile teams with an experienced solution architect whose responsibilities will be to develop and communicate a multi-dimensional solution architecture to deliver agreed business outcomes.

Role & responsabilities

• Defining the planned operation and maintenance of the solution within a production environment — including changes to services, process, organization, and operating models as well as technology.
• Ensuring that existing and planned solution components are compatible with relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards, and practices.
• Considering requirements for security, privacy, and testing of solutions
• Taking account of relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards, and practices
• Identifying appropriate cloud services or platform that could fulfill partially or completely the desired solution
• Developing roadmaps to migrate components to cloud services and/or platforms
• Developing and communicating an implementation roadmap
• Providing guidance and risk-based governance to support solution implementation including managing requests for changes and deviations from specifications.

Among your responsibilities

• Leads the development of solution architectures in a specific business, infrastructure, or functional areas.
• Leads the preparation of technical plans and ensures that appropriate technical resources are made available.
• Ensures that appropriate tools and methods are available, understood, and employed in architecture development.
• Provides technical guidance and governance on solution development and integration.
• Evaluates requests for changes and deviations from specifications and recommends actions.
• Ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards, and practices (including security) are applied correctly.
• Establishes policies, principles, and practices for the selection of solution architecture components.
• Manages trade-offs and balances functional, service quality, and systems management requirements within a significant area of the organization.
• Communicates proposed decisions to stakeholders.
• Coordinates and manages the target architecture across multiple projects or initiatives.
• Maintains a stable, viable architecture and ensures consistency of design and adherence to appropriate standards across multiple projects or initiatives.

Experience

• You have strong experience (+15Y) in Program management.
• You have practical experience with Programs in relevant engineering domain.
• You are familiar with the principles of computer networks and IT security management.
• You have experience in business analysis techniques and processes
• You have experience in managing projects in a waterfall and/or agile mode.

Education & soft skills

• You must possess at least a bachelor’s degree in computer science or in an IT-related discipline.
• Certifications are a plus (PMP / Prince2 / Agile …).
• You must be an analytical thinker.
• You must be able to evaluate the likely effects of programs on the profitability of the businesses
• You have analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• You can work alone and in a group, and time consciousness
• You have good presentation and report-writing skills.
• You are fluent in both spoken and written English.
• You are professional, transparent and you have a positive mindset
• You have real-world experience with Agile development methodologies such as Scrum