Technical Program Manager

Job Description

Leverage software craftsmanship principles and technology standards to solve problems with new and existing solutions. Write production-quality code to deploy on Enterprise Foundational Platforms. Collaborate with multiple teams and stakeholders to develop software architecture plans. Serve as software engineer on the product team and monitor and evaluate solution performance. Experiment with new and innovative software products to improve performance.

Responsibilities

• The Lead System Architect (LSA) is engaged in all aspects of a project, they design the Pega solution end-to-end.
• Using a Business Architect's functional design, the LSA creates the technical design, develops the enterprise class structure and reviews infrastructure requirements such as data architecture definitions and data management plans.
• The LSA leads technical teams, delivers technical guidance and advice, enables team members, and provides knowledge transfer to customer.
• Be able to analyze and understand as well as create technical designs based on PegaPRPC 7.2 ensuring a high standard of software delivery following SOA and integration architectural practices
• Collaborate with offshore and onshore designers and developers to prepare effective designs and deliver required functional and non-functional benefits and follow industry best practice.
• Help to resolve technical issues and mitigate technical risks across the Domain technical portfolio
• Pega performance analysis and tuning
• Lead the team to follow best development practices
• Drive the implementation of CI/CD pipeline for the applications
• Work with and leads on shore and off shore development teams

Qualifications

Education:

• Requires a bachelor's or foreign equivalent degree in computer science, information technology or a related field
• 8+ years of experience in the job offered and 8+ of experience performing software engineering
• Pega LSA certification is mandatory

Primary Skills Required :

• Working on a Balanced Team and collaborate with Product Owner, Product Manager, and Product Designer to deliver projects; Carrying out development using Pega Tools to support end-to-end feature delivery;
• Defining, designing, developing, and deploying applications/services and proof-of-concepts to support Guest Experience Platform growing technical capabilities/expertise and providing guidance and mentorship to other team members;
• Establishing best practices to maximize efficiency and minimize risk; ensuring quality, on-time delivery using Agile, test driven development principles; leveraging and applying UI/UX design principles;
• Individual should be highly technical hands-on individual who is passionate about exploring and applying Pega technology to help solve business problems.

Additional Skills Required:

• Excellent time management and organization skills, with the capability to manage multiple competing priorities.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate, partner and collaborate
• Willingness to go the extra mile. Dedication to achieving outstanding customer results with a team-oriented drive and a demonstrated ability to lead by example.
• Aptitude to pick up new concepts and technology rapidly; ability to explain it to both business & IT stakeholders.
• Capacity to work in teams as well as alone, capacity to lead a technical team, ability to match technology solutions to customer needs

Experience Requirements:

• Highly technical hands-on individual who is passionate about exploring and applying Pega technology to help solve business problems.
• Building and implementing model-driven, enterprise-level business solutions and applications.
• Leading end-to-end delivery of medium to large component of a bigger solution.
• Exposure to a variety of technologies including application servers, programming languages, relational and non-relational data bases and integration techniques.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and applicability of Object-Oriented techniques and principles.
• Experienced in delivering solutions in Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Ability to Design and understand full PEGA architecture along with PEGA UI

What you'll receive in return:

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builderor all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more

• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases

• Tuition assistance

• Established and active employee resource groups

• Paid time off for individual and team community service

• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day

• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

For information on Ford's salary and benefits, please visit:

https://corporate.ford.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en-us/documents/careers/2024-benefits-and-comp-GSR-sal-plan-2.pdf

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