Project Manager - Storage Software Engineering

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Project / Team / Area of Responsibility

Provide program management, portfolio planning, coordination, governance, and execution leadership across the Storage Software Engineering organization.

Drive visibility, accountability, and successful delivery of multiple concurrent engineering initiatives spanning software development, QA, DevOps, cloud architecture, platform engineering, infrastructure modernization, storage technologies, SaaS services, and strategic product programs.

Act as the operational and strategic hub between Engineering, Product Management, Program Management, Product Leadership and Support to ensure projects and programs are effectively tracked, risks are managed, resources are aligned, and commitments are delivered on schedule.

Lead cross-functional initiatives that span multiple engineering teams and business organizations while ensuring alignment with company objectives, product roadmaps, customer commitments, and strategic business priorities.

This role combines traditional project management responsibilities with strategic program leadership responsibilities.

The successful candidate will not only manage execution and delivery activities, but also drive portfolio planning, organizational alignment, program governance, executive reporting, resource management, dependency resolution, and long-term strategic initiatives across Storage Software Engineering.

This individual will serve as a key partner to engineering leadership and product management, helping translate strategic objectives into executable delivery plans while ensuring predictable and measurable outcomes.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Project & Delivery Management

- Assist the VP of Storage Software Engineering in managing and tracking all active projects across multiple engineering teams.

- Maintain visibility into project status, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, and resource constraints.

- Coordinate daily Scrum activities across development teams, ensuring blockers, risks, and action items are identified and resolved promptly.

- Partner closely with Product Management to ensure engineering priorities align with business objectives, roadmap commitments, and customer requirements.

- Drive sprint planning, backlog grooming, release planning, and retrospective activities across multiple Agile teams.

- Monitor project execution and ensure milestones are achieved according to approved schedules.

- Facilitate project reviews, stakeholder meetings, roadmap discussions, and engineering planning sessions.

- Maintain project documentation, schedules, action logs, and decision tracking.

- Develop and maintain Jira dashboards, reports, and workflow governance processes.

- Ensure engineering teams have clear visibility into priorities, commitments, and deliverables.

- Proactively identify schedule risks and develop mitigation strategies.

Program & Portfolio Leadership

- Lead multiple strategic programs concurrently across the Storage Software Engineering organization.

- Establish governance frameworks for planning, execution, reporting, and operational excellence.

- Develop multi-quarter and multi-year program roadmaps supporting organizational objectives.

- Manage program-level dependencies spanning multiple projects, products, teams, and partner organizations.

- Drive organizational planning activities including capacity planning, prioritization, investment alignment, and resource forecasting.

- Coord