Senior AI & Data Program Lead (Hybrid)

Lincoln Financial Group; Radnor (Delaware County); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leadership development

Tuition assistance

Employee assistance program

Financial counseling

Work flexibility

Job summary

Lincoln Financial Group is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead end-to-end AI, data, and engineering programs. You will coordinate with engineering leaders, data scientists, and stakeholders to define scope and milestones, translate roadmaps into plans, and deliver with quality and speed.

You will drive release readiness, risk mitigation, and governance across software, cybersecurity, data governance, and AI governance teams, leveraging Jira for tracking and reporting.

Qualifications

• 4 Year/Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• 5 – 7+ Years experience in Project/Program Management that directly aligns with the responsibilities for this position.
• Strong understanding of software development, engineering delivery, data platforms, analytics solutions, cloud technologies, or AI/ML implementations.
• Experience using Jira for planning, execution, dependency management, and reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and drive alignment across technical and business teams.
• Strong communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

• Leads the end-to-end planning, execution, and delivery of complex AI, data, and engineering programs, including data platforms, analytics products, AI/ML solutions, APIs, integrations, and cloud modernization initiatives.
• Partners with engineering leaders, architects, product managers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to define program scope, priorities, success measures, and delivery approaches.
• Translates product, architecture, and technology roadmaps into integrated program plans with milestones, dependencies, resource needs, and release targets.
• Facilitates program operating rhythms, including planning sessions, dependency reviews, risk discussions, release readiness assessments, and executive updates.
• Develops sufficient technical understanding to participate in architecture and engineering discussions, identify risks, and communicate tradeoffs.
• Coordinates delivery activities across software development, cybersecurity, architecture, privacy, data governance, AI governance, change management, and release management functions.
• Drives release and production readiness across teams, including testing, deployment planning, adoption activities, support readiness, and post-implementation reviews.
• Uses Jira as the primary system of record for program execution, maintaining visibility into work, dependencies, releases, delivery progress, and program health.
• Produces clear communications and reporting for technical teams and senior leaders, including status updates, dashboards, roadmaps, risk summaries, and recommendations.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Problem solving

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Jira

Job description

Lincoln Financial Group is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead end-to-end AI, data, and engineering programs. You will coordinate with engineering leaders, data scientists, and stakeholders to define scope and milestones, translate roadmaps into plans, and deliver with quality and speed.

You will drive release readiness, risk mitigation, and governance across software, cybersecurity, data governance, and AI governance teams, leveraging Jira for tracking and reporting.