Senior Program Manager

Senior Program Manager

Location: New York, NY

Onsite Flexibility

Hybrid 4 days in office

Contract Details

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 12 months (with potential for extension and conversion)
• Pay Rate: $90.00 $100.00 / Hour (USD)
• Shift / Schedule: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM 5:00 PM
• Travel Requirements: Not required
• Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Job Summary

This is a Senior Program Manager role focused on integrated planning ensuring the organization has an integrated roadmap, exercising sound judgment, working with cross-functional teams, and driving a strategic roadmap. The project supports a TD President-level initiative, focused on how to orchestrate a large, sequenced body of work. The role requires gaining an integrated understanding of how to drive outcomes in a more cohesive, coordinated form. The organization has a significant portfolio of both Business initiatives (e.g., growing deposits) and Technology initiatives (e.g., modernizing core banking platforms), with a set of interdependencies that must be managed to drive incremental value. The successful candidate will lead the end-to-end execution of a Workforce of the Future transformation, helping shape the future operating model, workforce strategy, leadership expectations, skills evolution, and AI-enabled ways of working. Additionally, the role requires building and managing an integrated executive-level delivery plan across approximately 30 strategic initiatives, creating transparency into critical milestones, dependencies, risks, and outcomes. Candidates must have historically been Technical Program Managers ideally with experience at organizations such as Amazon, Google, or Meta. Financial services experience is secondary. Candidates must have worked on modernization or transformational projects, such as moving to cloud-native architectures, replatforming, or adopting AI-native tech stacks. The team spends approximately 50 75% of time in meetings, interacting with internal stakeholders only. Contractors will not have access to customer data.

Key Responsibilities

Workforce of the Future Transformation

• Driving delivery against workforce transformation objectives, milestones, and success measures.
• Coordinating technology, HR, finance, and business stakeholders to align workforce plans with strategic priorities.
• Establishing program governance, executive reporting, and decision management routines.
• Tracking adoption, risks, dependencies, and organizational impacts.
• Supporting leadership teams in defining future-state organizational capabilities, operating models, and talent strategies.
• Measuring progress against workforce productivity, capability, organizational health, and business outcome metrics.

Strategic Integrated Delivery Planning

• Creating and maintaining a single integrated view of delivery across strategic programs.
• Identifying critical intersection points, dependency risks, and sequencing challenges across initiatives.
• Driving cross-functional planning and milestone alignment across executive stakeholders.
• Establishing common reporting and executive dashboards tied to strategic outcomes.
• Facilitating trade-off discussions and escalation of risks, issues, and decisions.
• Supporting leadership forums with actionable insight, scenario analysis, and execution recommendations.

Day-to-Day Program Management

• Running program management meetings to knock down impediments, understand status, drive planning activities, and pull together problem-solving sessions.

Must-Have Requirements

• Program management -8 years
• Strong communication skills
• Good judgment
• Technical depth what an API is? Understand the concept
• Copilot
• MS Suite

Nice-to-Have Requirements

• Lead large scale

Required Skills

Executive Communication

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to distill complex technical and operational topics into concise executive narratives.
• Experience preparing executive updates, steering committee materials, and leadership presentations.

Technical Credibility

• Strong technology background with understanding of software delivery, engineering practices, technology platforms, modernization programs, and large-scale transformation initiatives.
• Ability to engage effectively with engineers, architects, delivery leaders, and executives.

Strategic Judgment

• Demonstrated ability to make sound decisions in ambiguous environments.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to balance strategic priorities, operational realities, risks, and resource constraints.

Influence & Stakeholder Management

• Proven success operating across multiple executive stakeholders without direct authority.
• Ability to align diverse perspectives and drive decisions across competing priorities.
• Strong relationship-building and negotiation skills.

Program Leadership

• Experience leading complex, enterprise-wide transformation programs.
• Strong understanding of governance, planning, dependency management, risk management, and outcome measurement.
• Ability to establish structure and rigor while enabling rapid execution.

Preferred Skills

• Experience leading large-scale programs.

Education Requirements

• Post-secondary degree required, with a background in technology, program management, or process engineering.

Required Experience

• 8 10 years of overall experience required.
• Must have historically functioned as a Technical Program Manager, with experience at technology-forward organizations (e.g., Amazon, Google, Meta, or similar).
• Must have worked on modernization or transformational projects such as moving to cloud-native architectures, replatforming, moving to an AI-native tech stack, or comparable transformation initiatives.
• Financial services experience is considered secondary to a strong technical program management background.

Nice-to-Have Experience

• Background in financial services or banking.

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
• 401k Retirement Fund

Important Notes

• Interview process: 2 rounds 1st round will be virtual and 2nd round will be in person.

About the Client

This client is a leading financial services and banking institution operating across the U.S. and internationally, with a significant technology transformation agenda underway. The organization employs tens of thousands of professionals across banking, technology, HR, and finance functions, and is actively investing in modernizing its core banking platforms and AI-enabled ways of working. Teams include program managers, solutions developers, release train strategists, IT and technology professionals, and business analysts who collaborate closely in a fast-paced, agile environment. The organization is executing a multi-year strategic technology transformation, making this an opportunity to work at the intersection of large-scale enterprise change and cutting-edge platform modernization.

About GTT

GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Job Number: 26-16514 Industry: Operations & Management

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