Program Manager - Software

What You'll Do

Platform Strategy & Delivery Excellence

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of enterprise platform initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategic business objectives across multiple segments and product organizations.
• Drive platform roadmap execution, defining milestones, dependencies, success metrics, and adoption targets.
• Partner with Product Managers, Architects, and Engineering Leaders to prioritize investments in shared platform capabilities that maximize reuse and reduce duplication.
• Establish governance models that ensure consistent execution, transparency, and alignment across platform and consuming teams.
• Facilitate PI Planning and Pre-PI Planning activities to align platform priorities with adopter needs and business outcomes.
  
  

Platform Adoption & Business Value Realization

• Serve as the primary program lead for platform adoption across business units and product teams.
• Develop and execute adoption strategies that accelerate onboarding and utilization of platform capabilities.
• Ensure platform features deliver measurable business outcomes, including reduced development effort, faster time-to-market, improved quality, and lower operating costs.
  
  

Reusability & Standardization

• Champion the development and adoption of reusable platform services, frameworks, templates, and engineering assets.
• Drive standardization of development practices, tooling, security controls, deployment pipelines, and operational processes.
  
  

Stakeholder & Cross-Segment Alignment

• Build strong partnerships with business leaders, engineering teams, architecture groups, and external partners.
• Align priorities across multiple stakeholder groups while balancing platform objectives with adopter requirements.
  
  

Program Risk & Dependency Management

• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate program risks impacting platform delivery or adoption.
• Manage complex inter-team dependencies across products, technologies, and business functions.
  
  

Financial & Resource Management

• Manage platform investment plans, budgets, resource forecasting, and vendor engagements.
• Optimize utilization of internal and flex resources to maximize productivity and cost efficiency.
  
  

Qualifications

• B.E. / B Tech / M Tech
• 13+ years experience in software development life cycle with minimum 3+ years of project management experience
  
  

Skills

• Understanding of platform development and adoption.
• Program Strategy Alignment, Program Benefits Management, Program Stakeholder Engagement, Program Governance, Program Life Cycle Management
• Program and Project Management Methodologies & Frameworks
• Emotional Intelligence, Ownership & Commitment, Stakeholder Partnership, Network Performance, Business Acumen, Customer Centricity, Judgment, Risk Management and Learning Agility