Agile Program Lead

Job Description As a Project Manager at our company in Pune, you will be responsible for leading Agile program execution, facilitating Agile events, driving cross-team alignment, coaching teams and leaders, managing risks and dependencies, enabling stakeholder collaboration, ensuring execution excellence, championing continuous improvement, providing metrics and reporting, and managing Salesforce delivery. Key Responsibilities: - Lead Agile Program Execution: Manage and coordinate Agile Release Trains (ARTs), ensuring readiness across scope, content, logistics, and value delivery. - Facilitate Agile Events: Run key ceremonies such as PI Planning, ART Syncs, System Demos, sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and other team of teams events. - Drive Cross Team Alignment: Monitor planning execution, support synchronization activities, and guide cross-team backlog refinement for strategic alignment. - Coach Teams & Leaders: Mentor Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and stakeholders on Agile and Lean Agile principles, promoting strong ways of working. - Manage Risks & Dependencies: Identify and track cross-team risks, remove blockers, and ensure timely mitigation to support delivery outcomes. - Enable Stakeholder Collaboration: Build strong relationships with business stakeholders, product teams, vendors, and leadership while ensuring transparency and communication. - Ensure Execution Excellence: Track delivery status, monitor key metrics, address bottlenecks, and escalate issues as needed. - Champion Continuous Improvement: Drive relentless improvement through retrospectives, data-driven insights, technology adoption, and process enhancements. - Provide Metrics & Reporting: Report progress, predictability, flow, and team health metrics for leadership and governance forums. - Manage Salesforce Delivery: Oversee delivery of Salesforce components (Apex, LWC, integrations, testing) in partnership with technology teams. Qualifications Required: - 10-18 years of experience managing complex, multi-team projects and Agile programs. - Strong Salesforce expertise, including platform configuration, development concepts (Apex, LWC), integrations, and testing. - Proficiency in Agile frameworks, including SCRUM and Agile Program/Release Train Management. - Experience with SAFe and large-scale Agile delivery environments. - Hands-on exposure to Salesforce Clouds, such as Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Salesforce Lightning. - Familiarity with Agile tools like Jira or Rally for planning, reporting, and dependency tracking. - Solid project management capabilities, including planning, scheduling, risk management, and stakeholder communication. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to use metrics (velocity, predictability, flow) to drive decisions. - Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across business and technology teams. - Relevant education & certifications such as a Bachelors degree in Computer Science/Information Systems and Salesforce certifications (Admin, Developer, Architect preferred). If you are looking for a challenging yet rewarding opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies in a values-driven, people-centric, and inclusive work environment, then this role is for you. Apply now and unleash your full potential at Persistent! As a Project Manager at our company in Pune, you will be responsible for leading Agile program execution, facilitating Agile events, driving cross-team alignment, coaching teams and leaders, managing risks and dependencies, enabling stakeholder collaboration, ensuring execution excellence, championing continuous improvement, providing metrics and reporting, and managing Salesforce delivery. Key Responsibilities: - Lead Agile Program Execution: Manage and coordinate Agile Release Trains (ARTs), ensuring readiness across scope, content, logistics, and value delivery. - Facilitate Agile Events: Run key ceremonies such as PI Planning, ART Syncs, System Demos, sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and other team of teams events. - Drive Cross Team Alignment: Monitor planning execution, support synchronization activities, and guide cross-team backlog refinement for strategic alignment. - Coach Teams & Leaders: Mentor Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and stakeholders on Agile and Lean Agile principles, promoting strong ways of working. - Manage Risks & Dependencies: Identify and track cross-team risks, remove blockers, and ensure timely mitigation to support delivery outcomes. - Enable Stakeholder Collaboration: Build strong relationships with business stakeholders, product teams, vendors, and leadership while ensuring transparency and communication. - Ensure Execution Excellence: Track delivery status, monitor key metrics, address bottlenecks, and escalate issues as needed. - Champion Continuous Improvement: Drive relentless improvement through retrospectives, data-driven insights, technology adoption, an