Cisco Engineering Program Manager 

United States, Texas, Austin 

28376257

The Service Provider Routing (XR) Release group is looking for an expert Release Program Manager with in-depth end-to-end Release and NPI process knowledge and a consistent record of delivering converged multi-platform releases. The role will involve partnering with Engineering to define and implement AI/ML development and test workflows and Web content planning.

Run and lead day to day activities of a Release including:

• Driving cross department partnership through all Release gate reviews including planning (Concept Commit, Plan Commit) to execution and final delivery.
• Portfolio management, agile and waterfall feature entrance and quality criteria across all Service Provider Routing, SP Access and Optical platforms and technologies.
• Engage with Senior Management for project status to drive decision making process.
• Provide leadership, direction and mentorship to project team members
• Effective Risk Management at Feature and project level.
• Issue Management up to VP level.
• Branch plan, Branch Collapse, Throttle Pull decisions
• Define and drive Quality Plan/Goals
• Test strategy/critical issues (Feature Test, System test, Regression)
• Host weekly status meetings and Cross Train Updates and Presentations.
• Define, develop and track metrics used to assess software quality.
• Develop and maintain positive and productive relationship with supported BU’s and/or Account Teams

• BS/BA degree or equivalent 8+ years related experience in networking/ telecommunications industry.
• Strong Release Management and Project Experience.
• Familiarity of continuous integration release model.
• Confirmed strong understanding of Product development lifecycle and software engineering methodologies

AI/ML certifications

• Industry-standard SW Quality measurements, techniques and methodologies.
• Familiarization with defect tracking and categorization methodologies
• Testing methodologies in-depth knowledge
• Image / platform / release contents definition, tracking and delivery knowledge.
• Release tooling including Continuous integration, Waterfall, Agile, Rally, Jira and Bug Management.
• Familiarity with Cisco process and tools useful, including IRT, CQI, QDDTS, CPDM, PSIRT/Security.
• Ability to plan and lead medium to high complexity projects or deployments.
• Exhibits excellent written/verbal communication skills with ability to provide high level status updates and/or presentations to Senior Management and Executive Team
• Initiates informal reviews of ideas and technical objectives within and across business units.

Leadership tenets - Process/Quality improvements, Critical Thinking, Balanced planning vs reacting, Ability to establish Partnerships, Cross functional wisdom.

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