Senior Program Manager

Global Financial Firm located in Tampa, FL or Irving, TX has an immediate contract opportunity for an experienced Senior Program Manager

"This role is currently on a Hybrid Schedule.

You will need to have reliable internet, computer and android or iphone for remote access into the client systems during remote work.

We will be expected in the office weekly 2-3 days depending on the team requirement.

Video/ f2f interviews are required prior to all offers.

Senior Program Manager for Core Banking Transformation Programs

Client s technology team is growing at lightning speed, and we are looking for talented technologists to help build the future of global banking. Our teams are creating innovations used across the globe we are changing the way people bank and how the world does business. Client Treasury and Trade Solutions processes trillions of dollars in B2B payments every day for our largest corporate customers, in 135+ currencies across 90+ countries. This is an incredible opportunity to be part of a worldwide transformation to a future state global digital banking platform.

As a part of modernization of its Core Banking platform, Treasury and Trade Solution (TTS) group is looking for a dynamic person to lead its next generation transformation.

In this role, the successful candidate will lead the Transformation efforts across multiple strategic programs spanning globally. This includes Standardization of Core Banking products/capabilities/flows across multiple Lines of Business, Platform Hardening, and planning of strategic Migration/Conversion to a Target State Platform stack.

The selected candidate will be responsible for facilitating and leading conversations with multiple stakeholders like Product Managers across multiple Lines of Business, Technology teams, Operations etc. Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level.

The role also requires senior technical leadership and acumen to ensure that the program is achieving the business objectives and laying the foundation of a strong target state platform, architecture, operating model, and migration approach. This is required to make the transformation repeatable as the rollout is executed across multiple countries.

Responsibilities:

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 Capablity/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; facilitates 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

Qualifications:

Domain skills and Transformation Experience

10+ years of combined experience in banking and financial services industry and 5-8 years Technical Program Management experience

Strong proficiency in knowledge with SAFe Agile methodologies

Strong domain functional experience in on or more of cash management, payments, receivables, liquidity management, working capital solutions, commercial card programs, trade finance

Preferred experience working with Core banking platforms

Preferred familiarity with Accounting principles

Technical Skills

Strong experience in large transformations/conversions/migrations, simplifying platform architecture, while adopting cutting-edge design patterns

Experience with modernizing legacy technology platforms in an incremental manner

Strong experience with different approaches for data conversion/transformation

Preferred 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

Leadership skills

Experience owning an application end-to-end facing off to senior business stakeholders

Proactive Problem-solver. Possessing critical thinking skills to comprehend complex issues, policies, business requirements

Demonstrated sense of responsibility and capability to deliver quickly

Excellent organization skills, attention to detail, and ability to multi-task multiple complex projects and changing priorities

Excellent communication skills, negotiation and ability to have challenging conversations

Education:

Bachelor s degree/University degree or equivalent experience