Technical Program Manager

Role Description:

We are looking for a sharp, talented and energetic Technical Program Manager. As a FinTech TPM, you have the ability to deliver large cross-organisational software development projects at the intersection of e-commerce and payments. Building financial services is not easy, but you know what it takes to pull it off.

What you’ll be doing:

• Interact with project sponsors, project stakeholders to define and deliver projects
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints
• Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels
• Create, maintain and disseminate project information to stakeholders
• Communicate project issues and status in a concise, accurate, and professional manner. Insatiable curiosity and ability to understand architectural and technical aspects of projects
• Apply best practices to the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for projects based on experiences with a number of agile and blended approaches, as well effectively coordinating the implementations across teams using very different approaches
• Build and maintain integrated project schedules that account for internal/external dependencies, differing SDLC approaches and numerous constraints
• Be the driving force that collaborates with business and technical teams across Booking to make sure your teams deliver world class solutions that are highly scalable, secure, and flexible - all the while maintaining a strong customer focus.

What you’ll bring:

• Computer Science / Engineering Bachelor’s degree or related technical field
• 5-7 years of relevant work experience, including technical program management experience
• The role requires experience working with SAP, O2C and Payments processes, and a strong understanding of the requirements of this domain.
• Knowledge of the following is required: service-oriented architecture, product development, agile project management, release schedules.
• Experience in Leading the delivery of technical solutions to business problems as cross-team initiatives
• Experience in cross organization priority alignment to deliver program outcomes
• Experience in ensuring a realistic and objective delivery plan, based on end to end technical solution, is in place, which is based on data and appropriate delivery metrics
• Experience in visualising and managing Risks, Issues & Dependencies to enable delivery success. Experience in ensuring effective communication + stakeholder management is in place
• Experience in owning + driving appropriate common delivery governance across organization with diverse delivery practices and organization culture
• Experience in ensuring effective delivery best practice is in place which aligns to agile delivery principles.
• Experience in SAP is mandatory