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Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.
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To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.
We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a global hybrid work setup (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.
Technical Program Manager II
Expedia Technology Security and Privacy ensures EG is realizing business value through technology that is secure, trusted and scales efficiently to the needs of the company. This includes digital agility and transformation - how our employees plan and get work done (Jira, Microsoft 365), how we enhance our ability to operate as a business through proactive privacy and compliance measures, and the platform building blocks (cloud) upon while we deliver great experiences for our traveler and partners through our products, and critically compliant, trusted and secure technologies and ways of working that ensures our data, people and physical assets are protected.
As a Technical Program Manager II on our team, this person independently will drive execution of technical projects/programs under software development function in ETSP. The role combines technical expertise with project management skills to ensure that projects are delivered on time, within scope, and to the desired quality standards. Engage with stakeholders to gather requirements and feedback, keeping them informed about progress, risks and issues. Proficiency in project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum, Waterfall). Analytical and critical thinking skills to identify and resolve issues, and also have ability to navigate complex problems and make informed decisions.
What you will do:
Build the basic structure of a program that may include: prioritization alignment, team engagement & governance, identifying partners, etc.
Integrate timelines and milestones across projects, identify areas of alignment or dependency and evaluate the progress of projects, and adjust to keep the project on track
Lead the proactive identification and mitigation of issues and risks. You'll leverage experience to anticipate risks in advance of impacts. You will keep relevant team members and stakeholders advised of progress toward or changes to task timing that impacts the project schedule
Anticipate and recognize bottlenecks in work processes between teams and make suggestions for ongoing improvement
Craft differentiated technical communications for various internal and external teams based on an understanding of their differing levels of familiarity with technical language
Run agile ceremonies as a scrum master and the development process in conjunction with several internal partners
Who you are:
2 - 4 years relevant experience required or [higher education]
Understands capabilities required and can articulate them.
Project Management
Agile Practices
Process Skills and Techniques
Applies knowledge of the software. development lifecycle and the various agile engineering practices that can be used (e.g., in planning, requirements analysis, design, coding, unit testing, acceptance testing).
Understands the pros and cons of Agile methodologies.
Can leads Agile ceremonies without supervision.
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