Beacon Hill · 1 day ago
Information Technology Program Manager
Chicago, IL
Contract
Hybrid
Senior Level
$75/hr - $80/hr
5+ years expBeacon Hill is a staffing agency seeking an Information Technology Program Manager for a long-term contract engagement. The role involves developing a new customer-facing product and requires strong communication and program management skills across multiple application and technical teams.
Staffing Agency
Responsibilities
Targeting experience in working with multiple application/technical teams, can handle clear communication from technical to executive, and has strong presentation skills
Ideal candidate - experience from the AppDev world working on new product development at legacy enterprise orgs. A generalist with comfort in business spaces, PgM spaces, and IT/dev spaces. Airline experience is preferred
Interviewed candidates has strong resumes but wasn't able to provide specific examples of their work in detail which made the decision to reject the candidates hard
Please be sure your candidates are able to speak in detail about their experience and recent projects they've worked on
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Developing a new customer-facing product to improve experience for wheelchair customers that involves several areas of operation and its applications. Direct engagement with App Dev teams, business/operations, and senior leadership
App Dev PgM experience
3 years of App Dev program management- particularly leading large, cross-functional development and implementations
+5 years of overall experience in the AppDev space. Should be comfortable with modern microservice architectures, enterprise architectures, DevOps principles, and standard SDLC patterns
+1 year of experience doing BA and Solution Architect-like work, but they do not need to have formally been either
+1 year of Budget & Resource Management - comfort overseeing and managing a budget- tracking weekly spends, making monthly forecast updates, and spotting risks to spend
Cross-functional: know how to trust individual team leads/PMs/scrum masters, while also helping them and creating accountability in situations where you aren’t the most important project on someone’s radar
Capable of working with a number of teams that have their own methodologies, cadences, tech-stacks, and behaviors- and not getting frustrated by the differences. Needs to be able to meet both an agile micro-service team and a legacy waterfall mono-app team on their terms and get what they need from both
Comfort in talking with business in business speak, then pivoting to tech team speak, either in terms of tech or understanding the unique business pressures dev teams face. From experience, they know “what matters” to a business-side director and a DT-side Sr. Manager, and can ‘code switch’ between them
Some experience as a BA and solution architect. Need to be able to help facilitate the answering questions like “what is it everyone wants” and “how can we deliver this” with some experience and a drive to get those answers
Willingness to own small decisions and comfort in knowing what’s material and not
Strong Communication (verbal, written) particularly to Executive Leadership
Self-Drive / Asking the right questions / Resourceful
Technical / contextual knowledge - Enterprise Architecture/Platform Engineering/DevOps
Decision Making & Problem Solving
Ability to Influence / Negotiation
Tools - Jira, Confluence, Clarity, PowerBI
Methodology - Agile / SAFe Agile
Qualification
Required
3 years of App Dev program management- particularly leading large, cross-functional development and implementations
+5 years of overall experience in the AppDev space. Should be comfortable with modern microservice architectures, enterprise architectures, DevOps principles, and standard SDLC patterns
+1 year of experience doing BA and Solution Architect-like work, but they do not need to have formally been either
+1 year of Budget & Resource Management - comfort overseeing and managing a budget- tracking weekly spends, making monthly forecast updates, and spotting risks to spend
Strong Communication (verbal, written) particularly to Executive Leadership
Self-Drive / Asking the right questions / Resourceful
Technical / contextual knowledge - Enterprise Architecture/Platform Engineering/DevOps
Decision Making & Problem Solving
Ability to Influence / Negotiation
Tools - Jira, Confluence, Clarity, PowerBI
Methodology - Agile / SAFe Agile
Preferred
Airline experience is preferred
Some experience as a BA and solution architect. Need to be able to help facilitate the answering questions like 'what is it everyone wants' and 'how can we deliver this' with some experience and a drive to get those answers
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Federal and state leave programs
Company
Beacon Hill
Beacon Hill was founded to set a new standard in search, career placement and flexible staffing.
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