Senior Manager Agile Program Manager

We’re looking for a Senior Manager, Agile Program Manager to lead large-scale platform delivery for a modernized travel and hospitality experience. This role is ideal for a technical program leader who can guide cross-functional teams, manage dependencies, and keep complex initiatives moving with clarity and momentum.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the integrated platform roadmap, including epics, features, technical enablers, release milestones, and cross-team dependencies.
• Lead Agile Release Train planning, execution, and delivery across multiple Scrum teams.
• Facilitate PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, dependency triage, risk reviews, and release readiness discussions.
• Maintain a consistent delivery cadence across platform, infrastructure, security, and product teams.
• Manage timelines, risks, impediments, stakeholder alignment, and delivery outcomes.
• Coordinate distributed teams across multiple time zones and keep execution organized and transparent.
• Track decisions, actions, owners, dependencies, and due dates to support program clarity and accountability.
• Serve as a key point of coordination between business sponsors, engineering, architecture, platform operations, and platform consumers.
• Translate technical trade-offs and enterprise constraints into clear, executive-ready communication.
• Monitor and report on delivery metrics such as planned versus completed work, throughput, cycle time, defect trends, test pass rates, environment stability, deployment frequency, and intake-to-production timing.
• Support documentation, API readiness, consumer onboarding, platform adoption, and incident trend tracking.
• Help maintain strong program governance through reporting, status updates, and proactive issue escalation.
  
  
  

Skills

• Experience managing technical programs or platform delivery initiatives in an Agile environment.
• Ability to partner effectively with engineers and architects and follow technical discussions with confidence.
• Strong skill in identifying, managing, and communicating technical dependencies.
• Background in planning, execution, reporting, and delivery management.
• Experience coordinating offshore or distributed teams.
• Ability to support financial, scope, and stakeholder management activities.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present program health, risks, and decisions clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Comfort working in a hybrid environment and collaborating across multiple teams and functions.
  
  
  

Preferred Skills

• Experience with SAFe or Agile Release Train planning.
• Familiarity with platform modernization, infrastructure, security, or product delivery work.
• Experience managing executive status reporting and delivery metrics.
• Exposure to API readiness, consumer onboarding, or release management.
• Ability to work through complex priorities while maintaining a predictable delivery cadence.
  
  
  

Horizontal Talent is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where different perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences are valued. We welcome candidates who bring curiosity, collaboration, and a shared commitment to creating equitable opportunities for all.

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Please apply through this online posting or by visiting our Job Board at www.horizontaltalent.com/job-board. Applications will be accepted for 4 weeks. For those that join the team, we offer competitive compensation and benefits including medical, dental, vision, and retirement. Check out all we have to offer and how you can become part of the Horizontal Talent Team. The pay range for this role is $49 - $85 per hour based on qualifications and experience.