Senior Technical Program Manager

Grow your career as a Senior Technical Program Manager with an innovative global bank. Contract role with strong possibility of extension. Will require working a hybrid schedule 2-3 days onsite per week.

Join one of the world's most renowned global banks and trusted brand with over 200 years of continuously evolving financial services worldwide. You will work alongside some of the smartest minds in the industry who are excited to share their knowledge and to learn from you.

Contract Duration: 11+ Months

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree/University degree.
• 10+ years of combined experience in banking and financial services industry.
• 5 to 8 years of technical program management experience.
• Strong proficiency in knowledge with SAFe Agile methodologies.
• Strong domain functional experience in one or more of cash management, payments, receivables, liquidity management, working capital solutions, commercial card programs, trade finance.
• Strong experience in large transformations/conversions/migrations, simplifying platform architecture, while adopting cutting-edge design patterns. Led transformation with multiple teams, stakeholders & geographies.
• Experience with modernizing legacy technology platforms in an incremental manner.
• Strong experience with different approaches for data conversion/transformation.
• Experience owning an application end-to-end facing off to senior business stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills, negotiation and ability to have challenging conversations.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience working with Core banking platforms.
• Familiarity with Accounting principles.
• Experience with one or more of database design and engineering, real-time integration/middleware technologies, high throughput 24x7 systems, canonical data models, CI/CD pipelines, componentized microservices architecture.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitate conversations and agreement with senior Product Management, Product Owners, Operations and other stakeholders to help ensure alignment on Platform strategy and Transformation execution.
• Lead the standardization of capabilities/flows/partner interactions/data attributes across multiple platforms globally, working with Product and Business partners from several lines of business.
• Set up strong governance on capability/scope definition as well as Business Design Authority forum to review and track functional decisions.
• Organize strategy, gap analysis work into an Agile Train, responsible for steering the ART. Facilitate program level events: PI Pre Planning and Planning, Scrum of Scrums, PO Sync, System Demo, Inspect and Adapt.
• Identify ways to simplify the platform, architecture. Collaborate with other Operations & Technology teams to ensure technology solution aligns to the standards and best practices and ensure dependencies and risks are addressed.
• Facilitate workshops, functional and technical solutioning sessions, driving closure and consensus with both business and technical teams. Solve issues/challenges by factoring input from partners and diverse points of view.
• Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, as well as communicate with external parties as necessary.
• End to end ownership of key program decisions ranging from target state application architecture, interactions between Core Banking platform and other partners, selection of vendor capabilities to be used, adoption of automation processes for transformation.
• Drive culture change to help break down silos and have a holistic end-to-end view of business flows.