Program Manager – Agile Delivery & RTE - Workday Financials​/HCM

Location: Bengaluru

Role:
Program Manager – Agile Delivery & Release Train Engineering

Location:

Remote
Work Timing: 8:00 AM CST to 5:00 PM CST/ 6:30 PM – 3:30 AM IST
Immediate Joiners

Must Have

Skills:

Enterprise Program Leadership
Has led large, cross-functional technology programs from planning through implementation.
Experience coordinating multiple teams, business stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, and dependencies—not just managing a single project.
Release Train Engineer (or SAFe Program-Level Agile Leadership)
Has served as an RTE or equivalent, facilitating PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, dependency management, and program-level execution.
Top 3 Required Skills
Program & Release Train Leadership – Proven experience leading complex enterprise technology programs and serving as a Release Train Engineer (RTE) or in a similar Agile program leadership role.
Cross-Functional Delivery Management – Ability to coordinate multiple teams, manage dependencies, risks, vendors, integrations, and drive initiatives from planning through implementation.
Workday Financials/HCM Experience – Hands-on experience leading Workday Financials, HCM, and integration programs (implementation, modernization, enhancements, or ongoing delivery).
Top 3 Nice-to-Have Skills
SAFe Experience & Certifications – Experience facilitating PI Planning and other SAFe ceremonies, with certifications such as SAFe RTE, PMP, PMI-ACP, or CSM.
Enterprise ERP/ITSM & Third-Party Integration Experience – Experience managing enterprise ERP, HCM, or ITSM platforms and coordinating implementation partners and system integrations.
Delivery Tools & Agile Platforms – Proficiency with Azure Dev Ops, Jira, Service Now, or similar tools for Agile planning, tracking, and reporting.

Role Overview :
We are seeking an experienced Program Manager / Release Train Engineer to lead complex, cross-functional technology delivery while helping establish scalable Agile delivery practices across Digital Solutions.

Job Description:

Program Planning & Delivery Leadership

• Lead complex technology programs and initiatives spanning multiple teams, work streams, enterprise applications, and business functions.

• Establish and maintain integrated program plans, milestones, delivery roadmaps, scope, objectives, and success measures.

• Translate strategic priorities into coordinated execution plans and ensure teams understand commitments, sequencing, and expected outcomes.

• Drive work to completion by establishing ownership, monitoring progress, resolving delivery gaps, and ensuring actions are followed through to closure.

• Adapt planning and delivery practices across Agile, iterative, hybrid, and traditional delivery models based on organizational and program needs.
Cross-Team Coordination, Dependencies & Integration

• Coordinate delivery across product teams, platform teams, architecture, security, infrastructure, QA, business stakeholders, and third-party vendors.

• Identify, track, and actively manage cross-team dependencies, integration points, constraints, risks, issues, and decisions.

• Connect business processes, enterprise applications, and technical work streams to ensure issues are evaluated beyond the immediate symptom or originating system.

• Establish clear engagement points, handoffs, and escalation paths across teams and organizational boundaries.

• Facilitate timely resolution of blockers and ensure the appropriate technical and business participants are engaged.
Scaled Agile & Release Train Leadership

• Perform Release Train Engineer or equivalent program-level Agile leadership responsibilities as delivery structures mature.

• Plan and facilitate Program Increment (PI) Planning, ART Syncs, Scrum of Scrums, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt workshops, and other large-scale planning and coordination events, as applicable.

• Partner with Product Management, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and technical leaders to improve backlog and feature readiness, planning effectiveness, and alignment to program objectives.

• Support teams in identifying and managing risks, dependencies, impediments, and commitments across planning and execution cycles.

• Help establish scalable delivery cadences and operating…