Tata Consultancy Services

Program Manager

Tata Consultancy Services • $110K — $140K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience managing large enterprise-level programs in retail, ecommerce, or digital environments.
  • Proven track record in leading product development or modernization programs in retail stores or ecommerce.
  • Strong understanding of product data lifecycle management, including product onboarding and pricing.
  • Experience creating roadmaps, MVPs, and release plans from business requirements.
  • Considerable experience with Agile methodologies, using tools like Jira and Confluence for project management.
  • Technical proficiency in Java/Spring Boot, cloud-native applications, and DevSecOps.
  • Exceptional communication skills, with a talent for presentations and executive reporting.

Responsibilities

  • Own the complete delivery management of modernization roadmaps from planning to rollout readiness.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop execution plans from functional requirements.
  • Segment project requirements into multiple work streams for effective delivery management.
  • Manage comprehensive integrated program plans that track milestones and risks.
  • Prioritize product roadmaps using criteria such as business value and risk.
  • Oversee proof of concept initiatives focusing on AI-assisted development.
  • Maintain rigorous project hygiene through regular reporting and stakeholder communication.
  • Facilitate validation workshops to align business and technological objectives, ensuring acceptance criteria are established.

Benefits

  • Annual discretionary incentive program.
  • Comprehensive medical coverage including health, dental, and vision.
  • Parental leave benefits to support family needs.
  • Insurance options for auto, home, and identity theft protection.
  • Commuter benefits and reimbursement for certifications and training.
  • Generous time off for vacations, sick leave, and holidays.
  • Legal assistance and 401K plan with performance bonuses.
Full Job Description
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

  • Managed and lead enterprise level large Programs in retail, ecommerce, digital. Should have a development experience in early career which is essential to understand technicalities of the program and manage effectively.
  • Experience in leading in retail Store & Ecommerce, respective product development or modernization programs.
  • added advantage: Strong understanding of product data lifecycle: product onboarding, enrichment, attribution, taxonomy, PDP maintenance, UPC/SKU/WebID relationships, imagery/workflow, pricing, promotions, publishing, and downstream channel enablement.
  • Proven ability to convert business requirements into roadmap, MVP scope, release plan, backlog, milestones, dependencies, RAID, and executive status reporting.
  • Hands-on delivery governance across product owners, business SMEs, architects, UX, engineering, QE, data, integration, SRE, security, vendor/product teams, and offshore/onshore delivery teams.
  • Experience managing modernization programs involving cloud-native applications, APIs, event-driven architecture, batch-to-real-time transformation, data migration, and operational dashboards.
  • Strong Agile delivery background using Scrum/SAFe, Jira, Confluence, release planning, sprint ceremonies, dependency management, and stakeholder demos.
  • Ability to manage high ambiguity, run workshops, drive decisions, document assumptions, and align leadership across build-vs-buy, roadmap, cost, scope, risk, and product adoption decisions.
  • Considerable fluency in Java/Spring Boot, microservices, GCP/cloud, React/UI modernization, Kafka/Pub/Sub, APIs, data platforms, logging/monitoring, and DevSecOps concepts is required to manage technical stakeholders effectively.
  • Excellent executive communication, customer-facing presentation skills, and ability to produce concise leadership updates, action plans, and proposal inputs.


Roles & Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end delivery management modernization roadmap, including discovery, requirement validation, planning, execution, governance, and rollout readiness.
  • Partner with business, product, architecture, engineering, UX, QA, data, integration, SRE, and security teams to translate functional needs into execution plans and measurable delivery outcomes.
  • Structure requirements into multi work streams as needed for the project delivery to manage the deliveries and governance.
  • Create and manage integrated program plans covering milestones, releases, dependencies, sprint execution, demos, UAT support, rollout, risks, issues, actions, and decision logs.
  • Drive product roadmap prioritization using complexity, business value, dependency, risk, and readiness criteria; support MVP definition and phased delivery sequencing.
  • Coordinate POCs and accelerators around AI-assisted development.
  • Track scope, effort, assumptions, change requests, and estimation inputs to support proposal development and governance reviews.
  • Ensure strong project hygiene: RAID management, weekly executive reporting, financial/resource tracking, release readiness, test readiness, stakeholder communications, and escalation management.
  • Facilitate workshops with business and technology SMEs to validate current-state process, future-state capability needs, and acceptance criteria.
  • Support change management, training readiness, adoption planning, documentation, and transition to steady-state operations.


TCS Employee Benefits Summary:

  • Discretionary Annual Incentive.
  • Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.
  • Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.
  • Insurance Options: Aut& Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.
  • Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement.
  • Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.
  • Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.


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Salary Range-$110,000-$140,000 a year

About Tata Consultancy Services

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an Indian multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company, headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is a subsidiary of Tata Group and operates in 149 locations across 46 countries. TCS is the largest Indian company by market capitalization and is ranked 11th on the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's biggest public companies. TCS is also the second-largest IT services company in the world by revenue and the largest employer of women in India. The company provides services in areas including IT, consulting, and business solutions.
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