Senior Agile Program Manager (Financial Services / Banking)

Job Description
Act as the primary Engagement Lead for delivery of large-scale and complex programs for client’s digital business or engineering transformation programs.
Shape yearly/multi-year programs and roadmap for a large team that includes Sapient, Clients, and other partners.
Program management and oversight for 10+ agile scrum teams, spread globally.
Strong PM craft and experience. SAFe Agile ways of working. Identify opportunities to be innovative, continuous improvement. Be a coach.
Hands-on, data-driven program management.
Detail-oriented. Experience with identifying Value, Quality measurements, and Speed measurements.
Tool-savvy – deep knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, MSExcel, and productivity tools.
Good SDLC knowledge. Awareness of various tech stacks, DevOps, Quality Engineering, GenAI, and the nuances around it.
Risk Management.
Cost management. Managing and tracking spending/budgets.
Define processes and tools needed by teams across all programs enabling successful program implementation and delivery.
Provide guidance on consistent application of project management methodologies that align with strategic plans.
Partner with clients to plan, evolve, and formulate a customer-focused digital business transformation (DBT) strategy;
seed, estimate, and facilitate budget planning for value-based digital business transformation engagements.
Track and evaluate the delivery metrics of the product teams within the engagement and facilitate continuous improvement to improve flow, quality, and value realization.
Act as a trusted strategic advisor to clients to transform their business by guiding internal leaders and external senior stakeholders on engineering and digital business transformation methods and approaches.
Own or liaise with the Executive PMO to communicate program executional metrics, risks, issues, and dependencies.
Articulate engagement commercial metrics including client outcomes, leakage, burn rate, revenue &
margins, etc. to support account health and drive account-level planning within the industry vertical.
Deliver thought-leadership around industry, process, PMO, delivery, and technology on behalf of the organization.