Associate Director, Delivery & Program Management – R01573230

Sunnyvale, United States

AI & Data Engineering Associate Director, Delivery & Program Management

• Project Delivery Management, Manage Fixed Price Delivery, Estimations and Metrics, Client Management, Communications Management, Agile, Agile Metrics and Reporting, Professional Scrum Master-CSM/ PSM1, Manage Outcome Based Delivery, Requirements Creation/User Stories, Digital Accumen, Agile Coaching, Change Management (Project Management), Backlog Grooming

• Project Management:
  Project Manager

• Experience Range:
  With at least 15 years of experience managing complex technology projects and programs, including significant leadership of cross-functional IT delivery initiatives
  
  Key Responsibilities:
  
  1. Lead end-to-end delivery of large-scale technology initiatives, ensuring projects are completed on schedule, within scope, and meet defined quality standards
  2. Define project scope, milestones, schedules, resource allocation, dependencies, and success criteria in partnership with engineering, architecture, product, and business teams
  3. Align and coordinate cross-functional stakeholders including engineering, QA, Dev Ops, infrastructure, security, and product management to drive unified execution
  4. Identify and mitigate project risks, issues, blockers, dependencies, and change requests, ensuring timely resolution and escalation
  5. Drive Agile delivery practices across multiple teams, facilitating sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, and release planning to optimize outcomes
  6. Monitor and report project progress using KPIs, dashboards, project plans, RAID logs, and executive status updates to ensure transparency and accountability
  7. Facilitate technical discussions to bridge business requirements with engineering solutions, ensuring alignment and clarity throughout the project lifecycle
  8. Champion continuous improvement, delivery predictability, process optimization, and adherence to governance, documentation, quality, and security standards
  
  Required Skills:
  
  1. Agile methodologies including Scrum and Kanban
  2. SDLC and release management
  3. Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform
  4. Microservices architecture 5. API integration 6. CI/CD pipelines 7. Dev Ops automation tools
  8. Containerization technologies:
  Docker, Kubernetes
  9. Enterprise application integration 10. Project management tools:
  Jira, Confluence, Azure Dev Ops, MS Project Preferred
  
  Skills:
  
  1. Cloud modernization and digital transformation program delivery
  2. Security compliance and architecture governance
  3. Executive dashboard creation and delivery metrics/KPI management
  4. Outcome-based delivery models
  5. Backlog grooming and user story mapping
  6. Agile coaching in large-scale environments Desired
  
  Qualifications:
  
  1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related discipline
  2. Professional certification such as PMP, PgMP, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), or SAFe Agilist