Position: IT Program Manager
Location: Arlington, TX 76014 (onsite 2 days/week including Tuesdays)
Term: 6 Months Contract-to-Hire
This international financial services industry leader has an immediate contract-to-hire opportunity in Arlington, TX for an IT Program Manager. This position requires working onsite 2 days per week, including Tuesdays. This IT Program Manager will join a growing team responsible for driving standardization and promoting reuse as part of the architecture. As a Technical Program Manager, you will play a critical role in driving and managing strategic technology initiatives related to architecture. Your expertise in program management, development practices, enterprise architecture, and financial services combined with a sound set of technical skills will be instrumental in ensuring the successful execution of complex projects and initiatives. We want a visionary leader to accelerate the transformation journey!
Required Skills & Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree
- 7-10 years of IT Project/Program Management experience on software development and architecture projects (.NET, C#, and/or Java). Prior Java/.NET experience as a Developer/Technical Lead or Architect strongly preferred.
- Experience managing multiple SDLC projects simultaneously.
- Project forecasting and budgeting experience required.
- Financial services industry experience strongly preferred.
- PMP or Scrum Master Certification preferred.
- Substantial experience with Azure or AWS Cloud-related concepts & technologies.
- Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills to collaborate with different levels of hierarchy.
- Strong understanding of software development practices and architecture patterns & principles.
- Experience in managing teams/programs utilizing microservices and event driven architecture.
- Strong experience in managing REST API development and onboarding different consumers internally and external.
- Excellent project management skills, including the ability to create and manage program plans, budgets, and resources effectively.
- Strong leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to drive consensus and manage stakeholders at all levels.
- Ability to Identify and understand technical dependencies between initiatives.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Communicating up and down the stack - interacting with executives, engineers and architects, business groups and shared services.
- Leading the tech standardization efforts to streamline technology and tools needed to support business needs.
- Support building the reusable services backlog and help in execute development activities.
- Build and develop effective relationships with different product teams to find opportunities for reuse and promote usage of reusable services.
- Create an effective lifecycle process for enterprise reusable services and tech standards and think out of the box to deliver more with less resources.
- Help documenting and conducting presentations for technical, business and leadership audiences to promote reusable services and enforce tech standards.
- Lead the enterprise reusable services group planning activities across goals, KRs, KPIs, etc.
- Assist with change management activities for the team and beyond.
- Help design and implement workflows and other automations using low-code tools.
- Champion the financials of the tech standards & reusable team, yearly budget, and ongoing financial planning.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement by identifying opportunities for process enhancements and driving operational efficiency within the program.
- Conform with all company policies and procedures.
