IT Engineering Program Manager

Role summary / purpose

Success as an Engineering Program Manager requires someone who brings structure to ambiguity and drives delivery clarity across teams. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, build strong partnerships with engineering and program leaders, and ensure work is prioritized and executed with discipline. You are comfortable operating at both the strategic and tactical levels: shaping what should be worked on, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, and ensuring delivery plans, risks, and dependencies are visible and actively managed. You communicate crisply, writing clear leadership updates and facilitating alignment when tradeoffs are required.

Key responsibilities

• Help drive the system of delivery and ensure domain work is focused on the most important outcomes aligned to strategy and planned/governed consistently.
• Establish the structures and mechanisms that enable predictable delivery: backlog structure, planning artifacts, governance cadence, and reporting hygiene.
• Challenge and de-prioritize work that does not support the strategy or agreed priorities in partnership with Technical Program Manager, Product, and leadership.
• Co-own the domain backlog structure, planning, and delivery plan including scope, milestones, and dependencies within the strategic frame set by leadership.
• Prioritize within the domain with Engineering Manager input to ensure capacity is focused on the highest-value work.
• Drive clarity for cross-team sequencing and integration planning so commitments are realistic and well-understood.
• Maintain accurate internal risk and dependency registers; actively drive resolution, mitigation plans, and escalation paths.
• Keep project artifacts and dashboards up to date so domain and program status is trustworthy and comparable.
• Provide clear, timely communications to stakeholders on progress, risks, and changes.
• Ensure work has clear acceptance criteria and a defined value/outcome.
• At completion, validate with Engineering and leadership whether acceptance criteria were met and whether the intended value was delivered.
• Participate and provide key inputs to the cross-functional work intake and discovery process with context to all impacted functions within your domain.
• Apply and help evolve common standards for discovery, planning, and delivery.
• Ensure the domain integrates into the broader operating model using shared templates and cadences.

Requirements - education & experience

• 4 years in IT
• 1 year in Program Management
• Expert-level Project Management experience
• Senior Associate level

Required skills

• Build strong partnerships across engineering, program, product, design, systems, testing, operations, and quality functions.
• Drive alignment through clear tradeoffs, documented decisions, and transparent plans.
• Use data and delivery signals-risks, dependencies, throughput/health indicators-to inform priorities and leadership actions.