Expedia Group - Technical Program Manager

Technical Program Manager

- At Expedia Group, we believe our work makes a difference, secure in the knowledge that our core purpose of bringing people together to strengthen connections, broaden horizons, and bridge divides is the very foundation of the fight for equality and human dignity the world over!

- Our team is looking for a Program Manager, who can demonstrate their deep technical knowledge, loves solving real-world business problems and dedication to innovative thinking to ensure Expedia's programs line up well with leadership's plans and timelines. Working across the Product and Technical organization multi-functional teams and be a part of reshaping how our customers use our features from beginning to end.

- This person will be accountable for driving the delivery of business solutions that improve business processes, surface measurable insights, and support executive decision-making along with a strong desire to grow Expedia's next generation technology stack.

What you will do :

- Independently run sophisticated technical projects or assist in the management of these projects.

- Coordinate work performed by development staff and internal customers and/or partners, including defining project requirements, performing feasibility and needs and/or impact assessments.

- Develop detailed project plans and lead all implementation processes, including prioritization, progress tracking, supervising change control process, testing, documentation, training, and timely delivery within budget constraints.

- Running agile ceremonies as a scrum master and the development process in conjunction with several internal partners.

- Ensure project portfolio data and key attributes, e.g. estimates, assignments, and tasks are current and relevant, including regular reporting to and sync-ups with internal product, portfolio, and engineering teams.

- Able to communicate project expectations to team members and customers in a timely and clear fashion.

- Balance trade-offs between cost/schedule versus business benefit.

- Provide thought leadership to the team on massive-scale application issues such as reliability, serviceability, and performance.

- Support and follow the Expedia Software Development Lifecycle and actively advance standard methodologies (e.g. Agile/Scrum, Continuous Delivery).

- Ensure your team delivers high quality & on-time products and continuously innovates to improve engineering efficiency

- Drive evolution of standards and design patterns with industry standard methodologies and new technology to enhance the product, quality, and system performance.

- Drive program and system architecture discussions to identify a suitable quality solution to the business requirement.

- Work closely with the Sr. Manager or Director in Program Management and help in process improvement and organizational structure.

- Obtain senior management approval for the program by presenting the program scope. Oversee regular project status/quality meetings and reports.

- Keep management well advised on a timely basis on project or program progress, status, and/or concerns for each assignment. Review project metrics and facilitate project scorecard development to ensure enterprise-wide program success.

- Develop program communication plans and demonstrates effective communication to the executive management team, and project team(s).

- Establish alliances with other departments by recognizing dependencies to assess potential partnership and commitment to the program.

Who you are :

- Bachelors or masters in a technology focused business degree or equivalent experience.

- Bachelor's degree required within the field of engineering or other technical related subject area.

- Program Management experience (very large initiatives with a number of Project Managers) OR Project Management experience supporting software development.

- Hands-on Agile experience.

- Experience in software development preferred.

- Experience in building service-oriented architecture solutions