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F5 Networks, Inc Sr Program Manager - RP1030035 in SEATTLE, Washington
At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.
Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.
Business/Job Title: Sr. Program Manager Position
Summary The program manager facilitates getting work delivered within a value stream. They help facilitate the intake and work breakdown of epics into features, coordinate across the value stream to scope work, and identify and work issues, risks, and dependencies. They partner with the portfolio manager to ensure business objectives, milestones, and outcomes are tracked and achieved. The program manager has excellent interpersonal skills, strength working cross functionally, with the ability to influence and facilitate others to solve business problems and deliver. Program Managers are an escalation point on risks, issues, and decisions. The position requires a unique blend of business and technical savviness: a bigpicture vision, the drive to make that vision a reality, and technical credibility to engage and drive work with software engineers.
What Youll Do
Communicates and collaborates across the value stream to facilitate the intake and work breakdown.
Facilitate cross-functional engineering teams to solve business problems and deliver solutions Own LOE estimation of epics, with input from teammates to inform business case development
Coordinate with the Solution Architect to understand high-level designs, and systems impacted
Own feature estimation and high-level capacity alignment with the workstream(s)
Work with the Value Stream Lead to determine capacity allocation and WIP limits
Ensure coordination across all workstreams within their value stream and ensure tight coordination of crossworkstream interdependencies
Serve as escalation point for SOs to assist cross-workstream issues and risks
Accountable for release planning and coordination, working in collaboration with SOs, SREs, and other teammates as needed
Own facilitation of planning and ROB activities, including Scrum of Scrums for the Solution Owner (SO)
Bring business and technical savviness, including a big-picture vision, the drive to make that vision a reality, and technical credibility to engage with software engineers
Develop strong relationships to engage, align, and empower people to deliver
Develop, report, and continually improve performance metrics
Demonstrate ownership and autonomy and drive delivery of high-quality results
Build strategies for issue and risk mitigation and contingency planning
Support the development of high-performing global teams
Responsible for upholding F5s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.
Performs other related duties as assigned.
The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.
What Youll Bring
Have excellent communicated program progress to program stakeholders and executive-level leaders, including engaging in difficult conversations.
Have effectively led and facilitated strategic planning and road mapping sessions with senior stakeholders.
Demonstrated ex