Senior Technical Program Manager
Description
At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where 'Health for all Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.
Senior Technical Program Manager
YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
As Bayer Crop Science's digital farming arm, we advance regenerative agriculture and technology breakthroughs using the latest agronomic science, data science, engineering, and real-world farming experience. With groundbreaking technologies like Climate FieldView and our ForGround regenerative agriculture platform, our team is a part of some of the most important advancements in agriculture.
We are looking for an experienced software engineering senior technical program manager to work within the Scaled Agile framework as a servant leader, ensuring that teams’ capacity is balanced between new features and engineering excellence, drawing focus to the customer and maximizing flow. The senior technical program manager champions Lean-Agile principles and coaches for relentless improvement, always asking how teams can become more empowered and deliver more value.
- You will work directly with cross functional parties to lead an Agile Release Train as a Release Train Engineer, facilitating events, light weight processes, and dependency and risk management. Our ideal candidate can influence against the Waterfall mindset and motivate teams to choose people over process and customer value over “the plan.”
- Act as a servant leader and build a highly effective Agile Release Train (ART), leading collaboration across functional boundaries to build and release end to end commercial solutions and engineering capabilities within a value stream.
- Coordinate and optimize the flow of value through the ART.
- Partner with the product and technical leaders and various other teams for defining and refining features, prioritization of work for PI and ART/Product/Value Stream backlogs, and dependency and risk management.
- Partner with product and technical leadership to ensure that the Agile Release Train maintains a regularly refined roadmap, can forecast future human resource demand while remaining nimble in the event of changing business needs, and can accurately report actual time spent on Epics and Features.
- Coach the team how on to use SAFe and Lean-Agile practices and principles, as well as leading the Bayer-centric ways of working that align with these practices.
- Facilitate and coach ART level ceremonies.
- Foster a learning culture, and coach scrum masters and other members of the ART for continuous improvement and maximizing flow.
- Coach the teams on how to self-organize and self-assess Agility.
- Remove impediments and coach/guide teams to remove impediments to deliver value incrementally.
- Ensure adherence/compliance with existing standard operating procedures and drive improvements.
- Discuss and present technical matters with Commercial stakeholders and commercial matters with technical people.
- Lead comfortably while operating in uncertainty, creating order and motivation within ambiguity and churn.
- Influence without authority, building credibility and buy-in from teams within and external to the Agile Release Train.
WHO YOU ARE
Your success will be driven by your demonstration of our VACC leadership behaviors. More specifically related to this position, Bayer seeks someone who possesses the following:
Required qualifications
- Understanding of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Lean-Agile practices and principles, with a focus on environments delivering enterprise software at scale.
- 5+ years’ experience in Agile coaching, facilitation, and collaboration in software development.
- 4+ years’ experience as a Release Train Engineer.
- Experience with project management tools such as Jira, Mural/Miro, and Planview.
- Experience with data engineering, data warehousing capabilities, front-end and back-end mobile and web application development.
- Excellent balance of interpersonal, organizational, and technical skills.
- Ability to evangelize and represent a technical community; ability to motivate, inspire, and influence teams to deliver stellar products and quality, and to keep striving for continuous improvement in value delivery.
- Ability to learn quickly in a dynamic environment.
- Experience in program/project planning and process improvements.
- Exceptional organizational, verbal, and written communication skills.
Preferred qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience.
- SAFe certifications (Release Train Engineer or Scaled Agile Practitioner).
- 8+ years of Program Management experience in an agile software development organization, managing ART roadmaps and capacity.
- Proven experience in leading and partnering with globally distributed teams.
WHAT WE OFFER
Base salary estimated range between $116,150.00 to 209,339.00 annually, depending on the hiring location. You may also be offered bonuses, RSUs cash equivalent, or commission.
- Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability, as well as a Life Solutions Plan covering mental health benefits
- Industry leading 401K match of up to 10%
- Discounted access to Employee Share Purchase Plan program
- Professional growth opportunities including up to $10,000 college tuition reimbursement, access to upskilling platform, leadership training, mentoring and coaching programs, and short-term assignments (domestic and international)
YOUR APPLICATION
At Bayer, we strive to build inclusive experiences for candidates and employees alike in which a diverse set of perspectives and voices are represented. If this role sounds exciting to you but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we still encourage you to apply.
This posting will be available for application until at least May 17, 2024.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. This means we actively pursue ways to celebrate our differences and don’t discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, sex (including pregnancy), protected veteran status, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any unlawful criterion existing under applicable federal, state, or local laws.
If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, contact us at DFS[email protected].
Learn more about our team and mission: https://www.bayer.com/en/us/careers