Program Manager/Delivery Manager - Alpharetta, GA and Berkley Heights, NJ (4 days a week onsite) - 3346543236

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My name is Mayank, and I am a Technical Recruiter from Empower Professionals Inc. We are sourcing for a "Program Manager/Delivery Manager" role located at "Alpharetta, GA and Berkley Heights, NJ" and it's a long-term contract with possible extensions.

 

Role: Program Manager/Delivery Manager (3346543236)

Location: Alpharetta, GA and Berkley Heights, NJ (4 days a week onsite)

Duration: 12+ Months

 

Responsibilities:

• Program Strategy & Planning Translate business objectives into clear program charters, scope, success metrics (OKRs), and value hypotheses.
• Develop integrated plans (roadmaps, timelines, dependency maps, resource plans) for multi-team initiatives.
• Facilitate prioritization with Product and Engineering; run quarterly/PI planning (Scrum/SAFe, as appropriate).
• Execution & Delivery Own program schedules; track against milestones; manage critical path, dependencies, and scope changes.
• Run cadences: stand-ups, scrum-of-scrums, release planning, risk reviews, and post-mortems. Drive release readiness with engineering, QA, security, and operations; enforce change management.
• Risk, Compliance & Governance Identify and maintain a risk register; establish mitigation and contingency plans.
• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, accessibility, and regulatory requirements (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA—customize as needed).
• Maintain program documentation (charters, RACI, decision logs, architecture & runbooks) in Confluence or equivalent.
• Technical Leadership & Cross-Functional Alignment Partner with architects to validate solution designs against non-functional requirements (scalability, reliability, performance, cost).
• Facilitate trade-off decisions (build vs. buy, roadmap vs. technical debt). Align technical dependencies across services, platforms, and shared components.
• Stakeholder Management & Communication Provide transparent status reporting (dashboards, burn-up charts, KPIs) tailored to executives and teams.
• Lead steering committees; escalate blockers early with options and recommendations. Drive change enablement with documentation, training, and adoption metrics.
• Continuous Improvement Implement delivery metrics and retrospectives; optimize flow (WIP limits, SDLC guardrails). Standardize program processes, templates, and tooling; mentor PMs/engineers on best practices.

 

Requirements:

• Bachelor's in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (master's preferred). 
• 6–10+ years in technical program/project management, product delivery, or engineering leadership. 
• Proven success delivering large-scale software or platform initiatives across multiple teams. Strong knowledge of SDLC, Agile (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe), DevOps/CI-CD, and cloud-native architectures. 
• Experience with one or more domains: Cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP), Data & Analytics, AI/ML, Security & Identity, FinTech/Payments, E-commerce, or Enterprise SaaS. 
• Certifications: PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM/SAFe, or AWS/Azure/GCP cloud certifications. 
• Familiarity with SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs/Error Budgets), observability, and cost optimization (FinOps). 
• Experience with compliance standards relevant to your industry (e.g., PCI DSS for payments, HIPAA for healthcare). 
• Core Competencies Technical Depth: Can engage on architecture, APIs, data pipelines, cloud infra, scalability, and operational readiness. 
• Systems Thinking: Understands end-to-end flows and how changes ripple across ecosystems. Execution Excellence: Drives predictability, eliminates blockers, and ships outcomes—not just artifacts. 
• Influence Without Authority: Builds alignment across teams with different incentives. 
• Decision Quality: Frames trade-offs with data; chooses scalable long-term solutions. 
• Customer & Business Focus: Links technical delivery to measurable business value and user impact. 
• Tools & Technologies Planning: Jira/Advanced Roadmaps, Confluence, Azure DevOps, MS Project, Smartsheet, Miro. 
• Engineering & DevOps: Git/GitHub/GitLab, Jenkins/Azure DevOps Pipelines/GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes. 
• Cloud: AWS (EC2, EKS, S3, Lambda), Azure (AKS, ADO, App Services), GCP (GKE, Cloud Run). Data/AI: Databricks, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, dbt, Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift, MLflow, Feature Stores. 
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, Dynatrace, Splunk, ELK. 
• Security/Compliance: Vault, Defender, Prisma, Okta, SonarQube, Snyk. 
• Collaboration: Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, Power BI, Slack. 
• Success Metrics & KPIs Delivery Predictability: % milestones met, variance to plan, lead/cycle time. 
• Quality & Reliability: Defect escape rate, MTTR, change failure rate, SLO adherence. 
• Business Outcomes: OKR attainment, feature adoption, NPS/CSAT, revenue/cost targets. Efficiency: Velocity trends, WIP limits adherence, automation coverage, cloud cost per transaction. 
• Risk & Compliance: # high-severity risks mitigated, audit readiness, policy adherence.

 

 

Thanks

Mayank Verma

Senior Technical Recruiter | Empower Professionals

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mayank@empowerprofessionals.com | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayankdverma/

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