Agile Program Manager

Agile Program Manager
Req ID: 53513
Location:

Holon, IL

Location: Holon (Hybrid)

About us:

Sapiens is a global leader in the insurance industry, delivering its award-winning, cloud-based SaaS insurance platform to over 600 customers in more than 30 countries. Sapiens’ platform offers pre-integrated, low-code capabilities to accelerate customers’ digital transformation. With more than 40 years of industry expertise, Sapiens has a highly professional team of over 5,000 employees globally.

Agile Program Manager

Job Description

The Agile Program Manager (Scaled Scrum Master / Solution Train Engineer) is responsible for facilitating the collaborative work of multiple large product teams to deliver a cohesive platform.

This role coordinates the tasks, dependencies, risks, and timelines across the various teams, communicates status, unblocks issues, and coaches team leads to foster effective collaboration.

Key Responsibilities:

Facilitate the Scaled Agile across multiple Agile Product Teams, ensuring alignment and seamless integration of work.
Coordinate task dependencies, risks, and delivery timelines between teams working on the shared platform product.
Communicate project status, risks, changes, and roadblocks to leadership and stakeholders.
Proactively identify and remove impediments impacting team productivity and delivery.
Coach product team leads on Agile best practices, facilitating retrospectives and continuous improvement.
Foster a collaborative, transparent, and high-performing culture among the cross-functional teams.
Ensure effective knowledge sharing, process improvement, and scaling of Agile practices.
Optimize the flow of work, identifying and eliminating bottlenecks across the value stream.
Serve as a servant leader, guiding teams and stakeholders through complex problems.

Required Skills and Experience:

5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach, ideally in a large-scale, enterprise environment
Deep understanding of one or more Agile frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, LeSS, and SAFe
Excellent facilitation, communication, and conflict resolution skills
Ability to think strategically and tactically to coordinate multiple interdependent teams.
Strong program management and organizational skills.
Experience in scaling Agile practices and leading organizational transformation.
Collaborative leadership style with a coaching mindset.
Knowledge of software development lifecycle, DevOps, and project management tools.

Sapiens is an E-Verified & Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, M/F/D/V.