Program Manager

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Position Summary: We are looking for a Program Manager to coordinate and govern the portfolio of Data Engineering, DevOps, and Platform Engineering initiatives across the enterprise. Rather than running a single project, you'll orchestrate multiple related projects toward broader business outcomes — owning program strategy, delivery governance, intake, financials, and risk. You'll be the bridge between engineering squads and business/leadership stakeholders, ensuring the right work is prioritized, planned, and delivered predictably. Reports into Data & AI leadership. Key Responsibilities: Program Strategy & Business Alignment: Translate business objectives into a coordinated program roadmap across Data, DevOps, and Platform teams. Ensure every initiative ladders up to a measurable business outcome. Partner with engineering leads to sequence work, balance capacity, and manage cross-squad dependencies. Multi-Project Coordination & Delivery Governance: Govern delivery across concurrent projects using NXP's project management methodology. Facilitate sprint planning, backlog grooming, and cross-team ceremonies to keep squads unblocked. Run delivery governance — status cadences, milestone tracking, RAID logs, and steering reviews. Track program KPIs — predictability, milestone adherence, throughput, and quality. Intake Coordination & Demand Management: Own intake for new demand — capturing, triaging, and prioritizing requests into the backlog. Coordinate the request desk, ensuring work is assessed, sized, and routed to the right team. Translate business requirements (BRD) into epics and user stories with engineering leads. Financial & Resource Management: Own program financials — budget planning, tracking, forecasting, and variance management. Manage resource allocation and capacity planning and support headcount/vendor planning. Risk & Stakeholder Management: Identify, assess, and mitigate risks and issues across all workstreams. Manage stakeholders across the program lifecycle, communicating progress, trade-offs, and decisions. Provide regular, executive-ready reports and dashboards to senior management. What Success Looks Like (First 6–12 Months): In your first 6–12 months, you'll establish a clear program governance framework, stand up a reliable intake and prioritization process, improve delivery predictability across squads, and give leadership clear visibility into progress, risks, and spend. Required Qualifications: Bachelor's/Master's in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field, or an MBA. 8+ years in project/program management, including multiple concurrent projects and teams. Proven experience with Agile delivery and sprint planning in a software/data engineering environment. Strong track record in delivery governance — status reporting, milestone tracking, and steering forums. Hands-on experience with intake coordination and demand management for engineering teams. Experience with program financials — budgeting, forecasting, and cost tracking. Strong risk management, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills. Certified project/program management credential (PMP, Prince2, SAFe etc) is preferred. Preferred Qualifications: Experience managing catalog-based intake or a service catalog for engineering demand. Experience running a request desk / demand management function. Ability to translate BRDs into epics and user stories (BRD → Story). Familiarity with Data & AI, Databricks, cloud platforms, or DevOps delivery contexts. Working knowledge of tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or ServiceNow. Background in semiconductor, manufacturing, or large-scale enterprise IT environments is preferred. Competencies: Outcome orientation — focuses on delivering business outcomes, not just activity. Orchestration — coordinates teams, priorities, and dependencies with clarity and calm. Governance discipline — brings structure, cadence, and transparency to complex delivery. Stakeholder influence — drives alignment across engineering and business without direct authority. Clear communication — translates between technical detail and executive messaging. More information about NXP in India... #LI-7013