Senior IT Program Manager, Digital Banking

Ignite Banking; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ignite Banking seeks a Senior Technology Project Manager to provide technical project management, roadmap planning, and vendor oversight across a diverse digital banking transformation portfolio. You will lead planning and help product teams execute objectives with a deep technical background and an Agile mindset.

The role operates as an independent leader working with clients, internal teams, and vendors. Experience with digital banking platforms, entitlements, templates, and data

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years banking experience in Commercial/Treasury or merger/conversion scenarios.
• 7–10+ years technical delivery experience with hands-on involvement.
• Independent judgment and decision making on complex issues.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision and take initiative.
• Solid SDLC understanding and Agile/traditional PM blend.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end delivery of technology consulting projects, including planning, execution, and delivery.
• Assemble and lead project teams, allocate resources, and develop schedules to ensure on-time completion.
• Serve as primary client contact and manage expectations to ensure satisfaction.
• Partner with product managers to manage deliverables, stakeholders, and dependencies.
• Demonstrate understanding of business value and impact on programs and enterprise.
• Identify and mitigate risks; ensure projects stay on time and within budget.
• Define scope/objectives and coordinate activities of team members.
• Oversee interdependencies and integration of related projects.
• Apply SDLC knowledge and blend Agile/traditional PM practices.

Skills

Verbal and written communication

Independent judgment

Self-starter / minimal supervision

Agile and Kanban experience

Banking industry experience

SDLC knowledge

Delivery-focused

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in IT field

Job description

Position Overview

The Senior Technology Project Manager will provide technical project management, roadmap/program planning, technical dependency mapping, and vendor management/oversight of diverse set of digital banking transformation projects. They will lead and facilitate planning and help project and product teams execute on their objectives leveraging a deep technical background, coupled with Agile behaviors and mindset.

The role is an independent leader who works with minimal direction to guide the client, internal, and vendor project teams. The role builds strong interpersonal relationships with peers, leaders, and stakeholders and is viewed as a trusted partner who understands and advocates their desired outcomes and objectives.

Candidate must have worked directly with digital banking platforms, understand the intricacies of entitlements, payments, templates, and treasury/SMB/retail configuration data, and can rapidly interpret new data sources when required. This position plays a pivotal role in data analysis, bank merger integration, platform conversion efforts, and ongoing enterprise support.

Scope of Responsibilities:

• Manage the end-to-end delivery of technology consulting projects, including planning, execution, and delivery




• Assembles and leads project teams, identifies the appropriate resources needed for project execution, and develops schedules to ensure timely completion of projects, while controlling for project cost, quality, schedule, and scope.




• Act as a primary point of contact for clients, managing client expectations and ensuring a high level of satisfaction




• Partner with product manager in managing customer expectations for project deliverables, managing stakeholder communications, and helping to identify dependencies to help remove impediments for the team to deliver value




• Demonstrates understanding of the business value of the project and its broader impact on programs, initiatives, and the enterprise




• Actively manages stakeholder partnerships, identify and mitigate project risks, ensuring that projects are delivered on time and within budget




• May contribute and/or is familiar with defining the project’s scope and objectives of the desired outcomes, as well as the role and function of each team member, to effectively coordinate the activities of the team.




• Oversees the interdependencies and integration of interrelated projects.




• Possess specialized knowledge of SDLC and project frameworks used to manage delivery of technology projects.




• Exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments.

The successful candidate will have:

• 7-10+ years of banking experience (ideally within Commercial/Treasury and/or merger, acquisition, conversion experience)




• 7-10+ years of technical experience, delivery focused, hands-on, self starter




• Ability to exercise independent judgment and decision making on complex issues regarding job duties and related tasks.




• Ability to work under minimal supervision and uses independent judgment to analyze variable factors and determine the best course of action.




• Ability to make decisions regarding own work methods, occasionally in ambiguous situations, and requires minimal direction and receives guidance where needed.




• Solid understanding of software development life cycle models as well as expert knowledge of both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices and the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a project and business environment.




• Experience with Agile/Kanban project management methodology




• Excellent verbal and written communication skills




• Bachelor’s degree or higher in relevant information technology field (Information Technology, Information Systems Management, Computer Science, etc.)