Software Engineering Manager - HIH - Evernorth

• Ensures delivery managers are driving successful project outcomes by leveraging a broad set of skills across delivery, leadership, relationship management, and business acumen.
• Aggregates team Program Increment (PI) objectives into Program PI objectives. Participates in PI Planning readiness; preparation of Vision and backlogs via Pre and Post-planning.
• Establishes PI Planning readiness and facilitates PI Planning. Manages and optimizes the flow of value through the program using various tools. Assists with execution and Feature completion.
• Drives continuous improvement via Inspect and Adapt. Assists with economic decision making. Escalates and tracks impediments.
• Helps manage risks and dependencies. Attends system and solution demos.
• Coaches and educates team members on lean-agile practices and methods.
• Assists Product Management with economic decision making, and by facilitating capability and Feature estimation by teams and then aggregate up to the Epic level.
• Encourages collaboration between System and Solution Architects, User Experience, and teams. Helps ensure strategy and execution alignment by working with Agile Product Owners, Product Managers, and Stakeholders.
• Reports status and support activities related to Program Portfolio Management and Release Management. Addresses critical bottlenecks by providing input on resourcing.
• Encourages and facilitates team level and program level continuous integration and communities of practice for Quality, Engineering, SAFe, Agile, and Lean.
• The incumbent owns the output of a key discipline within a function. Utilizes in-depth professional knowledge and experience to set departmental goals which align with functional strategy. Focuses on achievement of departmental goals and plays a significant part in achieving functional goals.
• Manages a group of Release train engineers/ domain delivery managers including career development support.

• Proven track record of delivering on large scale or multiple initiatives. Experience with all aspects of the delivery, including planning, capacity reviews, budget, features/user stories, design and delivery execution
• Proven ability to effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders to identify needs and evaluate alternative solutions and strategies
• Servant leader and strong communicator with strong interpersonal skills to communicate at all levels of the organization, including VP levels
• Mastery at ‘story telling’, utilizing tools such as Microsoft PowerPoint to efficiently and effectively drive decision
• Ability to take complicated subjects and distill them down to salient points to drive decision making
• Strong technical aptitude and experience leading teams in delivering quality software experience working in an Agile organization using Scrum, XP, Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), or other methodologies

• 13+ years’ experience as release train engineer, or Agile Project/Program Manager.
• 7+ years’ experience as a technical delivery leader; strong IT application development & leadership background. Strong business acumen in health care pharmacy or PBM space
• Knowledge of PBM, healthcare industry helpful
• In-depth knowledge of project development, including process mapping, budgeting and timeline creation
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward project completion
• Demonstrated effective leadership and analytical skills

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