Description At Bayerwe'revisionaries, driven to solve the world's toughest challenges and striving for a world where 'Health for all Hunger for none' is no longer a dream, but a real possibility.We'redoing it with energy,curiosityand sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing ourcapabilitiesand redefining 'impossible'.There are so many reasons to join us. Ifyou'rehungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference,there'sonly one choice. Senior Technical Program Manager YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES As Bayer Crop Science's digital farming arm, we advance regenerative agriculture and technology breakthroughs using the latest agronomic science, data science, engineering, and real-world farming experience.Withgroundbreakingtechnologies likeClimateFieldViewand ourForGroundregenerativeagriculture platform, our team is a part of some of the most important advancements inagriculture. We are looking for an experienced software engineering seniortechnicalprogram manager to work within the Scaled Agile framework as a servant leader, ensuring that teams'capacityis balanced between new features and engineering excellence, drawing focus to thecustomerand maximizing flow. The senior technical program manager champions Lean-Agile principles and coaches for relentless improvement, always asking how teams can become more empowered and deliver more value. You will work directly with cross functional parties to lead an Agile Release Train as a Release Train Engineer,facilitatingevents, light weight processes, and dependency and risk management. Our ideal candidate can influence against the Waterfall mindset and motivate teams to choose people over process and customer value over "the plan." Act as a servant leader and build a highly effective Agile Release Train (ART), leading collaboration across functional boundaries to build and release end to end commercial solutions and engineering capabilities within a value stream. Coordinate andoptimizethe flow of value through the ART. Partner with the product and technical leaders and various other teams for defining and refining features, prioritization of work for PI and ART/Product/Value Stream backlogs, and dependency and risk management. Partner with product and technical leadership to ensure that the Agile Release Trainmaintainsa regularly refinedroadmap, can forecast future human resource demand whileremainingnimblein the event ofchanging business needs, and can accurately report actual time spent on Epics and Features. Coach the team how on to useSAFeand Lean-Agile practices and principles, as well as leading the Bayer-centric ways of working that align with these practices. Facilitate and coach ART level ceremonies. Foster a learning culture, and coach scrummastersand other members of the ART for continuous improvement and maximizing flow. Coach the teams on how to self-organize and self-assess Agility. Remove impediments and coach/guide teams to remove impediments to deliver value incrementally. Ensure adherence/compliance with existing standard operating procedures and drive improvements. Discuss and present technical matters with Commercial stakeholders and commercial matters with technical people. Lead comfortably whileoperatingin uncertainty, creating order and motivation within ambiguity and churn. Influence without authority, building credibility and buy-in from teams within and external to the Agile Release Train. WHO YOU ARE Your success will be driven by your demonstration of ourVACCleadership behaviors.More specifically related to this position, Bayer seekssomeonewhopossessesthe following: Required qualifications Understanding of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Lean-Agile practices and principles, with a focus on environments deliveri