About the role

  • Program Operations Lead at Rockwell Automation overseeing program governance and delivery oversight. Collaborating with multiple teams to drive execution excellence and align business outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Define, maintain, and continuously improve program governance frameworks, operating rhythms, and decision forums
  • Ensure alignment between portfolio priorities, program objectives, and execution plans
  • Provide input and leadership for program-level governance reviews, checkpoints, and executive forums
  • Establish clear escalation paths, decision rights, and accountability structures across pods and programs
  • Act as a senior delivery partner to RTEs, providing guidance, support, and escalation when delivery risks emerge
  • Ensure consistency and quality of execution across multiple ARTs or pods
  • Support RTEs in removing systemic impediments beyond ART-level control
  • Align RTE execution with enterprise delivery standards and governance expectations
  • Own and maintain program-level risks, issues, and dependencies, ensuring visibility and proactive mitigation
  • Aggregate and synthesize risks escalated from RTEs and delivery teams
  • Drive mitigation strategies, assign ownership, and escalate critical risks to executive leadership when needed
  • Ensure Product Owners, Product Managers, and key stakeholders clearly understand PI Goals and commitments
  • Validate that PI Objectives align to program outcomes, release plans, and business priorities
  • Reinforce accountability to PI commitments while managing trade-offs and scope adjustments
  • Coordinate creation and maintenance of program-level critical paths for major releases spanning multiple pods, ARTs, or programs
  • Ensure sequencing, dependencies, and milestones are clearly documented and understood
  • Hold pods, teams, and delivery leaders accountable to key milestones and delivery dates
  • Track progress against milestones and intervene early when slippage is identified
  • Drive corrective actions, re-planning, or trade-off discussions as needed
  • Stay closely connected with Testing and Quality leads across the program
  • Ensure testing strategy, environments, and readiness are aligned to delivery and release plans
  • Own program-level status communication to executive and senior leadership
  • Translate complex delivery data into clear, concise, and decision-oriented executive narratives
  • Provide materials, dashboards, and briefings to support executive reviews, steering committees, and leadership forums

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in or equivalent relevant work experience
  • Legal authorization to work in the U.S. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
  • Typically requires a minimum of 8+ years of related experience.
  • Experience in program, portfolio, or large-scale delivery leadership roles
  • Proven experience leading complex, multi-team or multi-program initiatives in Agile or hybrid environments
  • Strong working knowledge of SAFe, PI Planning, and Agile delivery at scale
  • Hands-on experience with Jira Align and enterprise Agile tooling
  • Strong risk management, dependency management, and delivery governance expertise
  • Experience operating in large, matrixed, or global organizations
  • Background in technology-enabled transformations (e.g., Data & Analytics, Digital Platforms, ERP, CRM, Cloud)
  • SAFe certifications (RTE, SPC, or LPM).
  • Experience working with executive steering committees and governance boards

Benefits

  • Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
  • 401k
  • Paid Time off
  • Parental and Caregiver Leave
  • Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.

Job title

D2R Program Operations Lead

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Location requirements

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