Digital Product Manager - Remote

Job#: 3025369

Job Description:

Client: Finacials Services

Team: TBA

Job Title: Digital Product Manager

Location: Zone 1 - Remote (U.S.)

Preferred Time Zones: EST or CST

Contract Length: 6-month contract with strong potential to extend

Pay Rate: $90 - $96
Top Requirements:

7+ years Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent via work, consulting, military, or education.

8-12+ years Product Management / BSC / BA leadership experience in financial services.

Deep, hands-on expertise with mainframe core platforms, ideally Hogan (FIS).

Strong experience with core banking modernization, configuration analysis, requirements decomposition, and to-be design.

Proven ability leading cross-functional teams: Digital PMs, Financial PMs, BSCs, BAs.

Experience with data conversion / migration, reconciliation, cutover planning, and runbooks.

Experience externalizing product & pricing rules (product catalog, pricing engine, governance).

Strong process engineering skills: current-state and future-state flows, system interaction maps.

Plusses:

Prior experience at a U.S. bank that used Hogan

Familiarity with API-first modernization, eventing, data streaming, and config-driven architectures.

Experience rebuilding SME knowledge repositories (playbooks, config catalogs, decision logs).

Background with regulatory, audit, and control requirements for core banking changes.

Experience modernizing/refactoring legacy ETL and downstream integration behaviors.

Job Summary:

This contingent Business Execution Consultant 5 role serves as the Lead Digital Product Manager for core banking modernization within the Small Business segment.

The role requires a senior, hands-on product leader with deep understanding of Hogan, core configuration, small business product constructs, conversion planning, and process flows.

This individual will rebuild lost SME knowledge, lead product/pricing externalization, own end-to-end requirements, and guide cross-functional delivery teams.

They will drive long-term modernization initiatives that are large-scale, multi-system, and high-risk, requiring advanced analytical thinking, strong governance, and strategic leadership.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
Product Leadership & Strategy

• Own and drive the product roadmap for Small Business core banking modernization.
• Translate business outcomes into epics, features, and prioritized backlogs across digital + core systems.
• Mentor and guide Digital PMs, Financial PMs, BSCs, and BAs.

Requirements & Analysis

• Perform deep requirements decomposition; write detailed functional and non-functional requirements.
• Conduct as-is configuration analysis (especially Hogan) and define the to-be configuration.
• Develop end-to-end current-state and future-state process flows and interaction diagrams.

Core Modernization & Migration

• Lead data conversion planning: mapping, cleansing, reconciliation, dress rehearsals, cutover.
• Partner with architecture on integration patterns, APIs, and data contracts.
• Maintain configuration workbooks, traceability maps (requirements test cases), and acceptance criteria.

Product & Pricing Externalization

• Drive externalization of product rules and pricing rules for configurability and faster change cycles.
• Establish governance, versioning, audit trails, and approval workflows.

Knowledge Capture & Controls

• Rebuild SME knowledge through playbooks, catalogs, decision logs, and repositories.
• Embed controls for auditability, data quality, change management, and policy compliance.

Delivery Excellence

• Lead UAT planning, operational readiness, parallel runs, and post-conversion stabilization.
• Manage dependencies across Hogan vendors, platform teams, servicing systems, pricing/fees systems, and online banking.

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