Program Manager Contractor: 6-9 years (Advanced)

Role: Technical Program Manager
Location Specific: 3X a week in Client office in Dallas/Irving, TX or Jacksonville, FL
Duration: Expected minimum duration of 6 months, w/ very strong possibility of extension based on performance.

Description:

Responsibilities & Required Qualifications:

Program Managers drive planning, tracking, and cross-team coordination for the data pipeline modernization program. A subset of this pool (3 of 20 in the original Irving allocation) are Senior Delivery Manager positions with larger, multi-project scope.

Must have 7+ yrs of closely applicable work experience. Required hybrid attendance 3X a week from client office in Dallas/Irving, TX or Jacksonville, FL.

• Own project and program plans, RAID logs, and milestone tracking across delivery workstreams.
• Coordinate cross-functionally between architecture, engineering, QA, and business stakeholders to keep releases on schedule.
• Run status reporting and governance forums (e.g. Scrum of Scrums), escalating risks and blockers early.
• Manage resourcing, dependencies, and vendor/partner coordination across onshore and offshore teams.
• Track budget, capacity, and burn against plan.
• 7+ years of program or project management experience in technology delivery.
• Experience running governance for multi-team, multi-location programs (onshore/offshore).
• Strong command of standard PM tooling (JIRA, Confluence, MS Project or equivalent).
• Demonstrated leadership and stakeholder management skills; comfortable communicating to senior stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications: Banking & Capital Marketing industry experience, specifically in the fraud domain. Working knowledge of enterprise ETL/ELT data warehousing concepts with direct exposure to "Ab Initio", Informatica, or other legacy ETL tools/software.