Description
Job Responsibilities:
Strategy - Help frame program strategy, aligned to organizational goals and objectives, including measurement (OKRs, KPIs).
Governance - Maintain program governance structure and related mechanisms for steering, decision-making, and escalation.
Engagement - Coordinate program conversations at the right level and cadence. Publish notes and action items.
Sense-making - Own program narrative; synthesize details into high-impact artifacts tuned to audience and purpose.
Monitoring - Enable comprehensive program health and status monitoring, including a framework for aggregating key results from multiple projects across the enterprise.
Schedule management - Ensure roadmap / schedule integrity, including process for "business critical milestones" and key results reported at the CxO level. Monitor for and resolve items near or past due, date changes, stoplight changes, etc.
Financials - Support capital planning, budgeting, forecasting, variance tracking, and related reporting including labor, cloud, vendor, software license, and other costs for initiatives. Coordinate setup of project codes.
Exceptions - Facilitate risk, issue, change, dependency, and critical decisions management.
Business cases - Drive end-to-end business case process - initiative funding pipeline ("FITS"), template utilization, incremental dates leading to each monthly business case review, stakeholder touchpoints, and feedback / approval forums.
Vendor management - Support third-party due diligence, selection, contract execution, and oversight.
Collaboration - Organize and maintain program collaboration and knowledge / work management infrastructure - example tools: Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Teams, Miro.
Administration - Provide administrative and logistical support such as roster and cost center management, meeting scheduling, team calendar management, conference planning, distribution list maintenance, etc.
Qualifications:
Has bachelor's degree, preferably with a STEM or Finance element.
Has 5+ years of experience and demonstrated proficiency in technology portfolio / program / project management.
Has 3+ years of experience with agile (Scrum, SAFe , LESS, Kanban, etc.).
Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence
Demonstrates strong analysis, synthesis, and communication skills, and delivers high quality work product.
Can navigate between big picture and detail, abstractions and specifics.
Is adaptable, independent, and thrives in a hybrid environment without a central PMO.
Is hands-on with collaboration infrastructure - expected to work directly in knowledge repositories (Confluence, SharePoint), work management systems (Jira, MS-Dynamics), BI and analytics tools (Excel, PowerBI), digital whiteboarding (Miro), communications tech (Zoom, Teams).
Domain experience a plus: financial services, big data, data science, advanced analytics, AI / ML / LLM.
Skills
Program management, Agile, Strategy, Risk management, Engineering, Change management, Stakeholder management
Top Skills Details
Program management,Agile,Strategy,Risk management,Engineering,Change management,Stakeholder management
Additional Skills & Qualifications
Looking for someone to partner across the portfolio, implementing and delivering the governance the for the program.
Will be working with Engineering and product teams, partnering on their status, metrics
Someone who can establish with tracking, manage risk management, discrepancies, leveraging jira for tracking
Working with 10-12 different teams of different sizes and able to solve the problem then replicate the solutions across the team so there is a uniformed way to solve problems across the portfolio
Represent the portfolio in calls with Sr leadership so there does not need to be representatives from each team
Will be helping with budgeting and forecasting, helping to bridge the gap and identify any discrepancies, writing business cases
$20 million budget, they are monitoring people to ensure they stay on budget but they are not accountable to it
Checking in on how people are progressing in projects
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract position based out of Rockville, MD.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $70.00 - $90.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long-term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a hybrid position in Rockville,MD.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Mar 16, 2026.
>About TEKsystems:
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services
We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
- Dice Id: 101054TS
- Position Id: JP-005884501
- Posted 5 hours ago
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