{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"3f8ae814d79da2034be108d4","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/3f8ae814d79da2034be108d4","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/3f8ae814d79da2034be108d4","title":"IT Engineering Program Manager","description":"Role summary / purpose\nSuccess 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.\nKey responsibilities\nHelp drive the system of delivery and ensure domain work is focused on the most important outcomes aligned to strategy and planned/governed consistently.\nEstablish the structures and mechanisms that enable predictable delivery: backlog structure, planning artifacts, governance cadence, and reporting hygiene.\nChallenge and de-prioritize work that does not support the strategy or agreed priorities in partnership with Technical Program Manager, Product, and leadership.\nCo-own the domain backlog structure, planning, and delivery plan including scope, milestones, and dependencies within the strategic frame set by leadership.\nPrioritize within the domain with Engineering Manager input to ensure capacity is focused on the highest-value work.\nDrive clarity for cross-team sequencing and integration planning so commitments are realistic and well-understood.\nMaintain accurate internal risk and dependency registers; actively drive resolution, mitigation plans, and escalation paths.\nKeep project artifacts and dashboards up to date so domain and program status is trustworthy and comparable.\nProvide clear, timely communications to stakeholders on progress, risks, and changes.\nEnsure work has clear acceptance criteria and a defined value/outcome.\nAt completion, validate with Engineering and leadership whether acceptance criteria were met and whether the intended value was delivered.\nParticipate and provide key inputs to the cross-functional work intake and discovery process with context to all impacted functions within your domain.\nApply and help evolve common standards for discovery, planning, and delivery.\nEnsure the domain integrates into the broader operating model using shared templates and cadences.\nRequirements – education & experience\n4 years in IT\n1 year in Program Management\nExpert-level Project Management experience\nSenior Associate level\nRequired skills\nBuild strong partnerships across engineering, program, product, design, systems, testing, operations, and quality functions.\nDrive alignment through clear tradeoffs, documented decisions, and transparent plans.\nUse data and delivery signals—risks, dependencies, throughput/health indicators—to inform priorities and leadership actions.","company":"Bartech Staffing","rawCompany":"bartech staffing","city":"Dearborn","state":"MI","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-09T14:55:03.463Z","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":"11-9041.00","title":"Architectural and Engineering Managers","slug":"architectural-and-engineering-managers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"IT Engineering Program Manager","description":"Role summary / purpose\nSuccess as an Engineering Program Manager requires someone who brings structure to ambiguity and drives delivery clarity across teams. 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