This role serves as the bridge between cross-functional teams including marketing, Design, and R&D.
Partners with Product Owners to refine the requirements and distribute work into logical customer valued deliverables, and opportunistically identifies synergies with HP's existing systems.
Responsible for defining the overall approach and architecture with the team and is accountable for defining the overall quality plan for that feature, solution, or product, and ensuring the on-time delivery, escalating, as necessary.
**Responsibilities**:
- Leads the planning and execution of complex projects or programs in support of the continuing evolution of the organization's software products.
- Partners with cross-functional software development teams to help them prioritize, plan, track and execute complex, cross organizational programs.
- Performs program analysis, manages risk, identifies and influences necessary course corrections on issues that affect release, scope, schedule, and quality of highly visible complex programs.
- Continuously assesses and improves the processes that comprise the software development lifecycle.
- Provides technical leadership and guidance to ensure that solutions meet quality and performance standards.
- Communicates project status, progress, and challenges through regular reporting and presentations to leadership.
- Ensures that all stakeholders are aligned towards a common goal by meeting and receiving feedback on an ongoing basis.
- Drives and tracks software releases, features and bug fixes, testing, and documentation.
**Knowledge & Skills**:
- Experience in developing commercial software products using agile development practices.
- Expertise in managing cross-organizational software development projects from initiation through delivery.
- Hands-on experience with developing and reporting on metrics for engineering development.
- Analytical and problem-solving experiences with large-scale systems.
- Comprehensive experience with a controlled software release process involving a product lifecycle management tool.
**Scope & Impact**:
- Viewed as a leader within the program management practice.
- Decisions significantly affect the quality and success of team projects and have impacts on programs that may last up to a year.
- Impacts function and leads and/or provides expertise to functional project teams and may participate in cross-functional initiatives.
**Complexity**:
- Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors.
- Contributes to the development of innovative principles and ideas.
Successfully operates in HP's most complex disciplines.
- Provides highly innovative solutions.
Leads large, cross-division functional teams or projects that affect the organization's long-term goals and objectives.
May participate in cross-division, multi-function teams.
Provides mentoring and guidance to lower level employees.
**Education & Experience**:
- Four-year or Graduate Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Management, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
- Typically has 7-10 years of work experience, preferably in program/project management, scrum master, professional technology organization, or a related field.
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