Program Manager

**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...](https://www.nxp.com/company/about-nxp/worldwide-locations/india:INDIA) #LI-7013