Location: Remote – New York, United States
Work arrangement: Remote
Work type: Contract
Compensation: DOE
Location: Fully Remote — Remote – New York, United States
This is a highly client facing role. You'll work directly with CTOs, Delivery Directors, Engineering Managers, and executive stakeholders while leading multiple engineering teams across enterprise scale initiatives. The ideal candidate understands both technology and business, thrives under pressure, and has experience managing large consulting engagements with demanding delivery timelines.
What You'll Do
Lead multiple concurrent technology programs across banking, payments, trading, and financial services. Own program governance, planning, budgeting, RAID management, executive reporting, and delivery. Drive cross functional execution across engineering, architecture, QA, DevOps, infrastructure, and business teams. Establish PMO best practices and delivery governance. Act as the primary delivery partner for enterprise financial services clients. Manage relationships with CTOs, CIOs, Program Directors, and executive leadership. Lead Steering Committee meetings and executive governance reviews. Translate business priorities into clear engineering roadmaps.
Ideal Background
Strong experience in one or more of: payments, money movement, banking, trading platforms, capital markets, wealth management, financial platform modernization, or regulatory technology. Comfortable driving delivery across multiple Scrum teams, managing budgets, risks, dependencies, escalations, and release planning. Experience leading executive status reporting and ensuring projects are delivered on time while maintaining engineering quality. Candidates should have started their career as software engineers before moving into program management.
Preferred Technical Exposure
Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, event driven architecture, Kafka, cloud (AWS preferred), Linux/Unix. Hands on coding isn't required today, but you should be comfortable discussing architecture and technical trade offs with engineering teams.
Required
15+ years of technology experience. 8+ years as a Program Manager, PMO Lead, or Delivery Manager. Financial services or FinTech experience. Consulting background. Experience managing multiple engineering workstreams. Experience presenting to executive leadership. Excellent PowerPoint and executive presentation skills. Outstanding communication and stakeholder management.
Research indicates that men will apply to a role when they only meet 50 to 60% of the descriptions, however, when looking at women and other minority groups, they can look for up to a 99% match in order to apply to a role. If you feel you are a fit for our role, please still apply. We'd still love to hear from you. We encourage underrepresented talent to apply to all our roles and support accessibility needs.
Compensation: DOE