Senior Technical Program Manager – Agile, SAFe & DevOps

StarTekk’s adoption of Digital Transformation is to accelerate organizational growth, increase efficiencies and help Star Workforce achieve focused business goals. The Employee will help our organization to identify and bridge the gap that exists in the business by analyzing the data, scale and support digital transformation initiatives.

We are looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager / Technical Scrum Master with strong experience leading complex technology programs across multiple engineering teams in large-scale Agile environments.

Key Requirements

• Strong Technical Program/Project Management experience

• Hands-on Scrum Master experience

• Strong Agile, Scrum & Kanban delivery background

• Experience with SAFe or Scrum@Scale

• Strong Jira experience for program execution and delivery tracking

• Sprint planning, backlog/work organization, dependency management, and impediment removal

• Experience managing end-to-end engineering delivery across multiple teams

• Strong stakeholder management and executive-level communication

• Ability to manage risks, dependencies, constraints, escalations, and delivery timelines

• Strong understanding of software engineering and SDLC

• Experience driving continuous improvement using metrics/data

• Ability to work independently and lead cross-functional technical initiatives

Highly Preferred

• Cloud-native services and large-scale distributed platforms

• CI/CD & DevOps

• Microservices / APIs

• IaaS / PaaS

• Payments / FinTech / Financial Services domain

• Agentic AI exposure

• Experience working closely with architects and engineering teams

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Own technology programs from inception through completion

• Build and maintain integrated delivery plans

• Coordinate dependencies across engineering and integration teams

• Lead Agile ceremonies and facilitate effective decision-making

• Track delivery metrics, risks, milestones, and overall program health

• Provide clear status reporting to technical and business stakeholders

• Remove impediments and escalate critical delivery obstacles

• Coach teams on self-organization and cross-functional collaboration

• Drive process optimization and measurable continuous improvement

• Location: Peoria, IL

• Work Arrangement: Hybrid

• Candidate Requirement: Local candidates only

• Work Authorization: US Citizens and Green Card holders