Overview
On Site
$70 - $72 hourly
Contract - W2
Contract - Temp
Skills
IT Transformation
Orchestration
Project Management
FOCUS
IT Management
Roadmaps
High Availability
Mainframe
Legacy Systems
COBOL
Communication
Facilitation
Management
Artificial Intelligence
Messaging
Job Details
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Kforce has a client in Chicago, IL that is seeking a Program Manager to lead a multi-year, enterprise-wide technology transformation initiative. This is a true program-level role, focused on strategy, orchestration, and decision enablement across highly complex systems and cross-functional teams-not traditional delivery-focused project management.
Summary:
The initiative centers on transforming a large, legacy mainframe-based platform into a modern, scalable technology ecosystem. This is a full modernization effort involving extensive discovery, validation, and phased execution across a highly integrated enterprise landscape. The program spans multiple years, includes significant investment, and impacts the organization end-to-end.
Key Responsibilities:
* Define and drive the overall program strategy, operating model, and execution framework
* Lead a large-scale modernization effort from legacy mainframe technologies to a modern architecture
* Orchestrate multiple interdependent workstreams and manage cross-team dependencies
* Facilitate complex, cross-functional discussions to move teams from uncertainty to decisions
* Maintain focus on outcomes, value, and enterprise impact-not just activity
* Partner with architecture and technical leadership to align strategic intent with execution
* Consolidate inputs from domain-level program managers into a unified enterprise roadmap
* Provide executive-level visibility into progress, risks, trade-offs, and long-term direction
* Navigate extended discovery phases where requirements are refined iteratively
Guide discovery efforts, proofs of concept, and solution evaluations to assess:
* Solution fit and feasibility
* Technology and tooling alignment
REQUIREMENTS:
* 10+ years of experience leading large-scale enterprise technology programs
* Experience with complex transactional or reservation-style systems supporting high availability
* Demonstrated success modernizing legacy platforms into modern architectures
* Familiarity with mainframe environments and legacy technologies, including COBOL-based systems
* Proven ability to lead programs with incomplete or evolving requirements
* Exceptional communication and facilitation skills, with executive presence
* Strategic mindset with the ability to connect vision, architecture, and execution
* Experience managing initiatives comparable in scale and duration (e.g., multi-year, $100M+ programs)
The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.
We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.
Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.
This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.
Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
By clicking ?Apply Today? you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages or emails from Kforce and its affiliates, and service providers. Note that if you choose to communicate with Kforce via text messaging the frequency may vary, and message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You will always have the right to cease communicating via text by using key words such as STOP.
Kforce has a client in Chicago, IL that is seeking a Program Manager to lead a multi-year, enterprise-wide technology transformation initiative. This is a true program-level role, focused on strategy, orchestration, and decision enablement across highly complex systems and cross-functional teams-not traditional delivery-focused project management.
Summary:
The initiative centers on transforming a large, legacy mainframe-based platform into a modern, scalable technology ecosystem. This is a full modernization effort involving extensive discovery, validation, and phased execution across a highly integrated enterprise landscape. The program spans multiple years, includes significant investment, and impacts the organization end-to-end.
Key Responsibilities:
* Define and drive the overall program strategy, operating model, and execution framework
* Lead a large-scale modernization effort from legacy mainframe technologies to a modern architecture
* Orchestrate multiple interdependent workstreams and manage cross-team dependencies
* Facilitate complex, cross-functional discussions to move teams from uncertainty to decisions
* Maintain focus on outcomes, value, and enterprise impact-not just activity
* Partner with architecture and technical leadership to align strategic intent with execution
* Consolidate inputs from domain-level program managers into a unified enterprise roadmap
* Provide executive-level visibility into progress, risks, trade-offs, and long-term direction
* Navigate extended discovery phases where requirements are refined iteratively
Guide discovery efforts, proofs of concept, and solution evaluations to assess:
* Solution fit and feasibility
* Technology and tooling alignment
REQUIREMENTS:
* 10+ years of experience leading large-scale enterprise technology programs
* Experience with complex transactional or reservation-style systems supporting high availability
* Demonstrated success modernizing legacy platforms into modern architectures
* Familiarity with mainframe environments and legacy technologies, including COBOL-based systems
* Proven ability to lead programs with incomplete or evolving requirements
* Exceptional communication and facilitation skills, with executive presence
* Strategic mindset with the ability to connect vision, architecture, and execution
* Experience managing initiatives comparable in scale and duration (e.g., multi-year, $100M+ programs)
The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.
We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.
Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.
This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.
Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
By clicking ?Apply Today? you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages or emails from Kforce and its affiliates, and service providers. Note that if you choose to communicate with Kforce via text messaging the frequency may vary, and message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You will always have the right to cease communicating via text by using key words such as STOP.
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