What you’ll do:

  • Contribute to portfolio-level prioritization and planning across UCAS products, ensuring alignment with business objectives, customer commitments, and engineering capacity.
  • Manage and coordinate delivery across multiple UCAS products and multiple concurrent releases.
  • Own and coordinate Business Opportunity Calculator (BOC) activities, including business case development, financial forecasting and governance reviews.
  • Develop and maintain Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), integrated program plans, resource plans, and release schedules to ensure predictable execution.
  • Leverage experience in both Waterfall and Agile methodologies, including SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), to drive effective program execution and continuous delivery.
  • PMP (Project Management Professional) Certified with strong program governance, planning, risk management, and stakeholder management expertise.
  • Partner with Product & Engineering team to define and execute end-to-end delivery of enterprise software platforms and applications
  • Define program roadmap, milestones, dependencies, and success metrics
  • Manages cross-functional activities[Dev, security...] ensuring deliveries against plan.
  • Partner with RTE, PM,PO,SM and Architects resulting in effective PI planning
  • Work with EM, SM and PO to reduce the defect debt.
  • Owns the Project Budget/profit plan, work with EMs to determine # of dev/test resources
  • Customer Centricity & Stakeholder Partnership
  • Building partnerships and acting as Single point of contact from software to Product teams, Coordinates and focused on delivering new or upgrading existing features.
  • Clearly outlining expected deliverables and interdependencies towards product teams and with agreed timelines
  • Looks for ways to add value beyond immediate requests and initiates actions
  • Provide clear and regular communication on program status, risks, and outcomes
  • Program Risk and Issue Management
  • Tracks, follow up and solve dependencies as per the plan
  • Proactively assessing and responding to risks during the PI execution & Program level.
  • Owns analyzing, and resolving issues that arise during a project by applying problem solving methodologies
  • Communicate the delays on schedule due to unplanned events and mitigation plans
  • Continuous Improvement

Qualifications:

  • B.E. / B Tech / M Tech
  • 10 Years +
  • PMP Certificate

Skills:

  • 10+ years of experience in software project and program management, delivering complex, multi‑team, multi‑release enterprise applications.
  • Proven experience managing the end‑to‑end software development lifecycle, from program initiation and planning through execution, release, and closure.
  • Hands‑on experience driving program planning, scheduling, milestone tracking, dependency management, and critical path execution.
  • Strong experience using project, program, and enterprise tracking tools (e.g., Jira,Confluence, MS Project, or equivalent) for scope, schedule, and delivery management.
  • Demonstrated experience in capacity planning, resource forecasting, and utilization management across multiple teams and programs.
  • Experience managing program financials, including budgeting, forecasting, and forecast‑vs‑actual tracking.
  • Strong background in program‑level risk, issue, and change management, ensuring predictable and on‑time delivery.
  • Experience creating and delivering executive‑level dashboards, insights, and reports to provide transparency into program health, progress, and risks.
  • Working experience coordinating delivery in Scrum and scaled delivery environments, while maintaining overall program governance and accountability.
  • Experience leveraging AI and data‑driven insights to improve program planning, forecasting accuracy, risk identification, and delivery predictability.
  • Exposure to AI‑enabled tools or platforms for reporting automation, or engineering efficiency.
  • Proven ability to align cross‑functional teams including Product, Engineering, QA, Operations, Finance, and Business stakeholders.
  • Strong experience with stakeholder communication, executive reviews, and escalation management across global teams.