{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"3c2bda81ee2a2b3643dd18fd","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/3c2bda81ee2a2b3643dd18fd","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/3c2bda81ee2a2b3643dd18fd","title":"Senior Program Manager","description":"W2 ONLY - NO 3RD PARTY CANDIDATES - NO VISA SPONSOR/TRANSFER - NO CORP'S - NO RELOCATIONThe Senior Program Manager is the central execution leader for the program. This is not a strategic advisory role — it is a hands-on, delivery-focused leadership position that requires daily engagement in execution management, cross-track coordination, governance enforcement, and stakeholder communication. The Senior Program Manager will be the person who makes the delivery model work — translating strategy into daily, weekly, and monthly operating rhythm.This role is accountable for:Owning the integrated program plan across all tracks — schedule, dependencies, milestones, and critical pathDriving the daily and weekly execution cadence — standups, iteration planning, demos, retrospectivesEnforcing entry/exit gates between delivery phases — no development starts without readiness criteria being metManaging cross-track dependencies and sequencing — ensuring parallel and sequenced tracks do not destabilize each otherOwning the SteerCo agenda, pre-read, and follow-up — ensuring the steering committee is a decision engine, not a status meetingDriving the re-baselining effort — establishing velocity baselines and validating the target delivery date within the first 90 daysOwning risk, issue, and action management — surfacing problems early, escalating with recommendations, and driving resolutionManaging the operating rhythm across US-based and India-based teams — including enforcing the guided execution model for offshore deliveryPartnering with the Business Sponsor (acting Product Owner) to ensure decisions are made, documented, and translated into stable requirementsPreparing executive-ready reporting — program status, quality metrics, velocity trends, risk dashboards — for delivery leadership and senior stakeholdersSkills:.Key ResponsibilitiesProgram Execution & DeliveryOwn the integrated program plan across all active and sequenced tracks. Maintain schedule accuracy, dependency mapping, and critical path visibility.Drive iteration planning, execution tracking, and completion reviews for each 2-week iteration cycle. Ensure work entering each iteration has met defined readiness criteria.Enforce the Structured Iterative delivery model — phases, gates, and change control. Prevent the program from reverting to ad hoc or unstructured execution patterns.Lead the re-baselining effort: establish velocity baselines from the first 2–3 iterations, validate the integrated schedule against actual throughput, and recommend date adjustments with supporting data.Monitor and manage track sequencing: ensure sequenced tracks do not enter build until predecessor tracks meet defined exit criteria.Own change control: ensure all mid-build requirement changes are documented, impact-assessed, and approved before integration into the next iteration.Cross-Track Coordination & Dependency ManagementRun the weekly cross-track program sync to identify and resolve inter-track dependencies, resource conflicts, and scheduling risks.Maintain an integrated dependency map across all tracks and surface conflicts proactively — before they become blockers.Coordinate with Solution Architects and Lead Developers to ensure technical dependencies (shared components, APIs, data flows) are sequenced correctly.Align business-side and technology-side PMs to ensure consistent planning, communication, and status reporting.Governance & EscalationOwn the SteerCo process end-to-end: agenda development, pre-read distribution (48 hours prior), meeting facilitation, decision capture, and follow-up tracking. The SteerCo is structured as a decision forum — not a status review.Prepare and present at the bi-weekly Delivery Leadership Review — covering program health, velocity trends, quality metrics, risks, and resource issues.Own the program-level Risk / Issue / Action log. Ensure risks are identified early, escalated with impact assessments and recommendations, and driven to resolution.Define and enforce escalation paths: track-level → program-level → delivery leadership → SteerCo, with clear timelines and ownership at each level.Distributed Team ManagementManage the operating rhythm across US-based and India-based teams. Ensure the guided execution model is functioning: US leads complex work, India executes well-defined tasks under US leadership.Ensure daily handoff processes are effective between US and India teams — morning standups, blocker resolution, code review follow-ups.Monitor the quality and throughput of offshore delivery. Partner with Lead Developers and Solution Architects to ensure work assignments match team capability.Identify and address distributed team inefficiencies — communication gaps, timezone friction, unclear ownership — before they impact delivery.Stakeholder Communication & ReportingServe as the primary point of contact for program delivery status across business and technology stakeholders.Produce weekly and bi-weekly program status reports — clear, concise, and executive-ready.Partner with the Business PM to align business readiness, UAT coordination, and stakeholder communication.Build and maintain program dashboards covering velocity, quality, risk, and milestone tracking.","company":"Albano Systems","rawCompany":"albano systems","city":"Springfield","state":"MA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-06-18T10:45:11.275Z","occupations":[{"code":"13-1082.00","title":"Project Management Specialists","slug":"project-management-specialists"},{"code":"15-1299.09","title":"Information Technology Project Managers","slug":"information-technology-project-managers"},{"code":"11-9151.00","title":"Social and Community Service Managers","slug":"social-and-community-service-managers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Senior Program Manager","description":"W2 ONLY - NO 3RD PARTY CANDIDATES - NO VISA SPONSOR/TRANSFER - NO CORP'S - NO RELOCATIONThe Senior Program Manager is the central execution leader for the program. This is not a strategic advisory role — it is a hands-on, delivery-focused leadership position that requires daily engagement in execution management, cross-track coordination, governance enforcement, and stakeholder communication. The Senior Program Manager will be the person who makes the delivery model work — translating strategy into daily, weekly, and monthly operating rhythm.This role is accountable for:Owning the integrated program plan across all tracks — schedule, dependencies, milestones, and critical pathDriving the daily and weekly execution cadence — standups, iteration planning, demos, retrospectivesEnforcing entry/exit gates between delivery phases — no development starts without readiness criteria being metManaging cross-track dependencies and sequencing — ensuring parallel and sequenced tracks do not destabilize each otherOwning the SteerCo agenda, pre-read, and follow-up — ensuring the steering committee is a decision engine, not a status meetingDriving the re-baselining effort — establishing velocity baselines and validating the target delivery date within the first 90 daysOwning risk, issue, and action management — surfacing problems early, escalating with recommendations, and driving resolutionManaging the operating rhythm across US-based and India-based teams — including enforcing the guided execution model for offshore deliveryPartnering with the Business Sponsor (acting Product Owner) to ensure decisions are made, documented, and translated into stable requirementsPreparing executive-ready reporting — program status, quality metrics, velocity trends, risk dashboards — for delivery leadership and senior stakeholdersSkills:.Key ResponsibilitiesProgram Execution & DeliveryOwn the integrated program plan across all active and sequenced tracks. Maintain schedule accuracy, dependency mapping, and critical path visibility.Drive iteration planning, execution tracking, and completion reviews for each 2-week iteration cycle. Ensure work entering each iteration has met defined readiness criteria.Enforce the Structured Iterative delivery model — phases, gates, and change control. Prevent the program from reverting to ad hoc or unstructured execution patterns.Lead the re-baselining effort: establish velocity baselines from the first 2–3 iterations, validate the integrated schedule against actual throughput, and recommend date adjustments with supporting data.Monitor and manage track sequencing: ensure sequenced tracks do not enter build until predecessor tracks meet defined exit criteria.Own change control: ensure all mid-build requirement changes are documented, impact-assessed, and approved before integration into the next iteration.Cross-Track Coordination & Dependency ManagementRun the weekly cross-track program sync to identify and resolve inter-track dependencies, resource conflicts, and scheduling risks.Maintain an integrated dependency map across all tracks and surface conflicts proactively — before they become blockers.Coordinate with Solution Architects and Lead Developers to ensure technical dependencies (shared components, APIs, data flows) are sequenced correctly.Align business-side and technology-side PMs to ensure consistent planning, communication, and status reporting.Governance & EscalationOwn the SteerCo process end-to-end: agenda development, pre-read distribution (48 hours prior), meeting facilitation, decision capture, and follow-up tracking. The SteerCo is structured as a decision forum — not a status review.Prepare and present at the bi-weekly Delivery Leadership Review — covering program health, velocity trends, quality metrics, risks, and resource issues.Own the program-level Risk / Issue / Action log. Ensure risks are identified early, escalated with impact assessments and recommendations, and driven to resolution.Define and enforce escalation paths: track-level → program-level → delivery leadership → SteerCo, with clear timelines and ownership at each level.Distributed Team ManagementManage the operating rhythm across US-based and India-based teams. Ensure the guided execution model is functioning: US leads complex work, India executes well-defined tasks under US leadership.Ensure daily handoff processes are effective between US and India teams — morning standups, blocker resolution, code review follow-ups.Monitor the quality and throughput of offshore delivery. Partner with Lead Developers and Solution Architects to ensure work assignments match team capability.Identify and address distributed team inefficiencies — communication gaps, timezone friction, unclear ownership — before they impact delivery.Stakeholder Communication & ReportingServe as the primary point of contact for program delivery status across business and technology stakeholders.Produce weekly and bi-weekly program status reports — clear, concise, and executive-ready.Partner with the Business PM to align business readiness, UAT coordination, and stakeholder communication.Build and maintain program dashboards covering velocity, quality, risk, and milestone tracking.","datePosted":"2026-06-18T10:45:11.275Z","dateModified":"2026-06-18T10:45:11.275Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Albano Systems","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Springfield","addressRegion":"MA","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"3c2bda81ee2a2b3643dd18fd"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/3c2bda81ee2a2b3643dd18fd"}}