Program Manager Leader
Job description
Job Title: Program Manager Leader
City: Columbus
State/Province: Ohio
Posting Start Date: 10/5/26
Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients' most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world.
For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.
- Lead multiple concurrent integration programs across enterprise applications, cloud platforms, middleware, APIs, and vendor platforms.
- Define program objectives, scope, roadmap, and success criteria.
- Drive governance, program reviews, executive reporting, and decision-making forums.
- Ensure delivery excellence across schedule, budget, scope, and quality.
- Govern end-to-end implementation of enterprise integration solutions using APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native integration platforms.
- Manage dependencies across application, infrastructure, security, network, and data teams.
- Ensure adherence to enterprise architecture standards, security controls, and compliance requirements.
- Partner with executive sponsors, business leaders, enterprise architects, delivery teams, and vendor partners.
- Present program status, risks, mitigation plans, and strategic recommendations to leadership teams.
- Manage program budgets, forecasts, resource plans, and vendor engagements.
- Identify risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies and drive timely resolution.
- Establish program metrics, dashboards, and KPI reporting.
- Participate and assist teams in Release Planning Meetings to help synchronize between teams across locations.
- Build synergies between scrum teams across locations and simplify the interface between SoSM, Scrum Teams, and other stakeholders.
- Participate in LOB level Scrum of Scrum meetings and Governance meetings of all the Programs he/she is responsible for.
- Highlight the risk and dependencies across all programs in the LOB to ensure achievement of release goals. Resolve impediments to ensure smooth sprint execution.
- Resolve and further escalate impediments across teams to a minimum and ensure ZERO impact on the overall Release schedule.
- Responsible for CSAT as per organization norms and expectations. Ensure EWS, customer escalations, and escalation resolution as per organization norms.
- Enable collaboration between Dev, Ops, and other stakeholders to ensure availability of required environment.
- Interact with Agile Line Manager to resolve internal impediments related to people and operations.
- Expand the Wipro footprint / ensure repeat business in the LOB.
- Communicate team success to client and Wipro stakeholders and leadership.
- Participate in CoP initiatives in Wipro / account.
- Represent the account in internal forums at a vertical / BU level (APR / QBR / MBR etc.).
- Responsible for performance management of SoSMs, Technical / System Architects, Product Owner, and Agile Line Managers.
- Responsible for budget, account profitability, cash flow, and Value at risk.
- Ensure resource forecast accuracy.
- Responsible for invoicing (if SOW is at program level).
- Approve PDMR (if SoSM / ALM is not available).
- Program Management
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10 YEARS
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Reinvent your world. We are building a modern Wipro. We are an end-to-end digital transformation partner with the boldest ambitions. To realize them, we need people inspired by reinvention. Of yourself, your career, and your skills. We want to see the constant evolution of our business and our industry. It has always been in our DNA - as the world around us changes, so do we. Join a business powered by purpose and a place that empowers you to design your own reinvention.
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