Senior Technology Program Manager

Description

Title:Senior Technology Program Manager

Location: Charlotte, NC

Duration: 12 months

Work Engagement: W2

Work Schedule: Hybrid 3 days in office/2 days remote

Benefits on offer for this contract position: Health Insurance, Life insurance, 401K and Voluntary Benefits

Summary: In this contingent resource assignment, you may: Consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for Project Management. Review and analyze complex multi-faceted, larger scale or longer-term Project Management challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors including intangibles or unprecedented factors. Contribute to the resolution of complex and multi-faceted situations requiring solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements that meet deliverables. Strategically collaborate and consult with client personnel. Required Qualifications: Project Management experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.

Key Responsibilities:

Program Leadership

• Lead a complex, cross-functional technology modernization program involving retirement of enterprise Hadoop platforms and supporting infrastructure.
• Establish and manage program governance, reporting, executive communications, and steering committee reviews.
• Develop and maintain integrated roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, risk registers, financial tracking, and delivery plans.
• Drive accountability across multiple technology teams and business partners.

Platform Retirement & Migration Execution

• Oversee discovery, assessment, prioritization, and migration of applications, tenants, and data workloads from legacy Hadoop environments.
• Coordinate migration activities across cloud platforms, data platforms, middleware services, security teams, infrastructure providers, and application teams.
• Manage application retirement, tenant offboarding, data archival, infrastructure shutdown, and decommissioning activities.
• Ensure migration readiness reviews, cutover planning, production implementation, and post-migration stabilization are successfully completed. [EDL Platfo...ration_V16 | PowerPoint], [August IBR...ess Review | PowerPoint]

Stakeholder & Executive Management

• Build strong relationships with senior technology leaders and business stakeholders.
• Provide concise executive-level updates on delivery status, risks, financial impacts, and business outcomes.
• Facilitate decision-making and issue resolution across multiple organizations and lines of business.
• Present program health, milestones, and transformation progress to executive leadership.

Risk & Compliance Management

• Lead remediation efforts related to platform vulnerabilities, EOS/EOL technologies, audit findings, and regulatory commitments.
• Drive risk mitigation plans and ensure compliance requirements are incorporated into migration and retirement activities.
• Coordinate with Cyber Security, Infrastructure, Operations, Architecture, and Risk organizations to address dependencies and impediments. [EDT&O Week...2026 Final | PowerPoint], [CDO TechOp...P_20260817 | PowerPoint]

Financial & Business Value Tracking

• Manage budget oversight and forecast delivery against committed business case objectives.
• Monitor benefits realization including infrastructure savings, software license reductions, platform rationalization, and operational efficiencies.
• Develop and maintain executive-level reporting on cost avoidance, run-rate savings, and modernization outcomes. [August IBR...ess Review | PowerPoint], [Q2 CDO Scoreboard | PDF]

Operational Readiness & Change Management

• Coordinate production readiness reviews, business continuity testing, support transitions, and operational acceptance.
• Ensure comprehensive communication, training, documentation, and stakeholder preparedness throughout the program lifecycle.
• Drive organizational change management strategies to support adoption of target-state platforms.

Key Requirements:

• Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
• 10+ years of project, program, or portfolio management experience within large-scale technology organizations.
• Proven experience leading complex infrastructure transformation, data platform modernization, cloud migration, or data center exit initiatives.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data platforms, distributed computing technologies, and cloud transformation programs.
• Experience managing multimillion-dollar programs with multiple workstreams, vendors, and executive stakeholders.
• Demonstrated expertise in risk management, financial governance, executive reporting, and dependency management.
• Experience using Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Hadoop ecosystems including Hortonworks, Cloudera, MapR, Hive, Spark, Oozie, HDFS, or related technologies.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, AWS, or private cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with enterprise data engineering, ETL modernization, data governance, and analytics platforms.
• Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure decommissioning and application retirement programs.
• PMP, PgMP, Agile, SAFe, or equivalent certification.