Fintech Integration TPM - Banking APIs & Cloud Delivery

Ascendion; Berkeley Heights (NJ); On-site; USD 72,000 - 103,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Long-term disability insurance

Short-term disability insurance

Paid time off

Vacation time

Holidays

Learning Management System

Job summary

Ascendion is seeking a Technical Program Manager / Technical Program Lead to drive the StoneCastle Integration Program from Berkeley Heights, NJ on site. You will lead end-to-end delivery across multiple workstreams, establish governance, and coordinate with Product, Engineering, Operations, and vendor teams to ensure successful integration and post-launch support.

The role requires 8+ years in large-scale tech programmes, 5+ years in financial services/fintech, and experience with core banking

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience delivering large-scale technology programmes.
• 5+ years of experience managing complex financial services, banking, fintech, or payments initiatives.
• Experience leading enterprise platform modernization or acquisition integration programmes.
• Experience with cash management, digital assets, and stablecoin initiatives.
• Demonstrated success managing cross-functional delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of StoneCastle integration initiatives across multiple business and technology workstreams.
• Establish programme governance, delivery plans, RAID logs, dependency management, and executive reporting.
• Coordinate delivery activities across Product, Engineering, Operations, Architecture, Security, Compliance, and vendor teams.
• Drive programme execution from initiation through production deployment and post-launch support.
• Partner with engineering teams to design and deliver integrations involving core banking platforms, customer portals and APIs, trust systems, deposit network services, merchant and payment platforms, and external banking partners and service providers.
• Manage API, data, cloud, and operational integration workstreams.
• Facilitate technical design reviews and architecture discussions.
• Identify and remove delivery blockers across teams.
• Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Communicate programmer status, risks, decisions, and milestones to leadership.
• Drive consensus across competing priorities and stakeholders.
• Support integration activities involving acquired businesses and strategic partnerships.
• Ensure delivery aligns with security, regulatory, and operational requirements.
• Partner with Risk, Compliance, and Information Security teams throughout programmer execution.
• Drive solutions tracking, operational readiness, support models, business controls, and production governance.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, resource schedules, allocation tracking, resource forecasting, and executive dashboards.
• Manage dependencies across multiple programmes and vendor organizations.
• Drive issue resolution and escalation management.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Risk & compliance awareness

Delivery planning

Education

PMP, PgMP, Agile, Scrum, or SAFe certifications

Tools

AWS

Job description

Ascendion is seeking a Technical Program Manager / Technical Program Lead to drive the StoneCastle Integration Program from Berkeley Heights, NJ on site. You will lead end-to-end delivery across multiple workstreams, establish governance, and coordinate with Product, Engineering, Operations, and vendor teams to ensure successful integration and post-launch support.

The role requires 8+ years in large-scale tech programmes, 5+ years in financial services/fintech, and experience with core banking