Head of Technical Programme Management

Information Technology

Technical Program Manager Dearborn, MI

Job Category: Information Technology

Position Type: Contract

Stefanini is looking for a Technical Program Manager, Dearborn, MI

We are seeking an Engineering Program Manager (EPM), someone who brings structure to ambiguity and drives delivery clarity across teams. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, build strong partnerships with engineering and program leaders, and ensure work is prioritized and executed with discipline. You are comfortable operating at both the strategic and tactical levels: shaping what should be worked on, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, and ensuring delivery plans, risks, and dependencies are visible and actively managed. Help drive the “system of delivery” and ensure the domain's work is focused on the most important outcomes, aligned to VC&M strategy, and planned and governed consistently.

Establish structures and mechanisms that enable predictable delivery, including backlog structure, planning artifacts, governance cadence, and reporting hygiene.

Challenge and de-prioritize work that does not support the strategy or agreed priorities, in partnership with the Technical Program Manager (TPM), Product, and VC&M leadership.

Co-own the domain backlog structure, PI planning, and domain delivery plan, including scope, milestones, and dependencies, within the strategic framework established by TPMs and leadership.

Maintain accurate internal risk and dependency registers; Provide clear and timely communications to stakeholders regarding progress, risks, and changes.

Apply and help evolve common VC&M standards for discovery, planning, and delivery.

4 years in IT, Expert-level Project/Program Management experience

Translate a complex platform migration plan, such as EKS to GCP, into a one-page executive summary that highlights the timeline, risks, and decisions needed without requiring the audience to understand the underlying infrastructure.

Conflict Management : Mediate a priority disagreement between Product and Engineering by facilitating a data-driven tradeoff discussion that results in a mutually agreed split between new feature work and technical‑debt reduction.

Project Management : Identify a critical-path dependency between three teams mid-PI, elevate it with a clear impact assessment, and coordinate a re-sequencing plan that keeps the overall launch date intact.

Program Management : Orchestrate end‑to‑end PI planning across multiple teams by running capacity analysis, facilitating the planning event, negotiating cross-team dependencies, and publishing a committed plan with tiered objectives.

Project Planning : Jira : Enforce backlog hygiene across multiple teams by ensuring every epic has acceptance criteria, a target PI, an assigned owner, and properly linked stories. Use advanced JQL queries and automation rules to flag stale issues, identify unlinked work items, and prevent status transitions without required fields so dashboards remain trustworthy and leadership reporting does not require manual cleanup.

Agile Software Development : Use retrospective data to make concrete planning adjustments that measurably improve commitment accuracy.

Bachelor's Degree

Listed salary ranges may vary based on experience, qualifications, and local market. Also, some positions may include bonuses or other incentives

Our talent acquisition teams will never make an offer of employment without having a phone conversation with you. The Stefanini Group is a global provider of offshore, onshore and near shore outsourcing, IT digital consulting, systems integration, application, and strategic staffing services to Fortune 1000 enterprises around the world. Our presence is in countries like the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and more than four hundred clients across a broad spectrum of markets, including financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, chemical services, technology, public sector, and utilities. Stefanini is a CMM level 5, IT consulting company with a global presence.