Technical Program Manager

Summary:

VIAVI (NASDAQ: VIAV) has a 90+ year history of technical innovations that have evolved to keep pace and address our customer’s most pressing business issues. We make equipment, software, and systems that help to plan, deploy, certify, monitor, and optimize all kinds of networks - like those for mobile phones, service providers, large businesses and data centers. VIAVI is also a leader in high performance thin film optical coatings and engineered diffusers, providing light management solutions to anti-counterfeiting, consumer electronics, automotive, defense and instrumentation markets.
We are the people behind the products that help keep the world connected – at home, school, work, at play, and everywhere in between. VIAVI employees are fierce about supporting customer success and we welcome people who bring their best every day to the company - to question, to collaborate and to push for solutions that will delight our customers.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Monitor programs/projects from initiation (kickoff gate) through delivery (ship gate)
• Track progress on project plans, schedules, budgets, and deliverables
• Identify needed resources for projects
• Facilitate communication and coordination across cross-functional teams
• Lead cross-functional program/project meetings, document meeting minutes and track actions
• Coordinate multiple projects and reconcile the interdependencies between them
• Work effectively and efficiently with others on the cross-functional team, consistently applying best practices
• Provide recommendations for continuous improvement
• Proactively manage program risks and issues through risk identification and mitigation processes
• Manage communication of program status, technical progress, and business impact with program stakeholders
• Track project change controls
• Ensure compliance with the Business Management System (BMS) and Product Development Policy (PDP) processes and procedures
• Schedule and organize project gate review meetings
• Collect and report on project metrics/KPIs
• Utilize best-practice project management tools and methodologies

Pre-Requisites / Skills / Experience Requirements:

Basic Qualifications:

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical degree
• 15+ years of professional experience in the software or IT industry
• 15+ years of program/project management experience for cross-functional projects for large organizations
• Ability to be productive with minimal direction.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills
• Program/project management experience in development of new software products
• Good understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle and Agile software development processes
• Experience managing teams of technical professionals
• Analytical thinker, detail oriented, problem solver
• Excellent English-language written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Significant experience with project and program management methodologies and techniques
• Knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation procedures
• Strong leadership and management skills
• Experience with quality management systems (ISO 9001)
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint

Preferred Qualifications:

• Project Management Professional (PM) certification
• Experience working as a software engineer
• Experience with the Atlassian tool suite, including JIRA and Confluence
• Experience managing  solutions for Telecom network and services.