Senior Program Manager / Business Analyst

Lancesoft; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 156,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancesoft in Boston is seeking a Senior Program Manager / Business Analyst to lead a high-visibility transformation within Markets Technology. You will drive day-to-day execution, establish credibility, and turn complex discussions into actionable requirements and milestones.

The role requires strong program management, governance, and executive communication skills to ensure delivery across a large enterprise. This hands-on position emphasizes accountability, planning, and stakeholder alignment.

Qualifications

• Senior program management experience leading large, cross-functional transformation programs.
• Strong governance, risk management, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to convert discussions into clear requirements, actions, and milestones.

Responsibilities

• Mobilize and run the program establishing scope, outcomes, milestones, and resources.
• Create and maintain the integrated program plan, RAID, dependency map, and status reporting.
• Establish delivery governance with steering forums, decision rights, and closure standards.
• Partner with business and tech stakeholders to define current and future-state processes and priorities.
• Lead requirements workshops and translate discussions into clear requirements and ownership.
• Coordinate and drive accountability across application, infrastructure, data, risk, and vendor teams.
• Identify risks early, develop mitigations, and elevate issues with options and recommendations.
• Prepare concise executive materials and status communications.
• Manage program finances, forecasts, and change control.
• Coordinate business readiness, training, testing, and transition to operations.
• Use data, automation, and responsible AI to improve transparency and speed.

Skills

Program management

Business analysis

Governance

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Delivery leadership

Job description

Pay range: $75-80/hr Senior program manager with at least 10 years financial program mangement. Large scale programs.

Job Description:

Who we are looking for We are seeking a seasoned Senior Program Manager / Business Analyst to lead day-to-day execution of a highly visible, cross-functional transformation program within Markets Technology. The consultant will bring strong program management, business analysis, governance, and executive communication skills, with the ability to organize complex work and drive progress across a large, matrixed financial institution. This is a hands-on delivery role for a professional who can quickly establish credibility, bring structure to ambiguity, convert discussions into clear requirements and actions, and maintain consistent pressure on owners, decisions, risks, and milestones.

Why this role is important to us

Our technology function, and enables the business to deliver data, services, and insights to clients. This engagement will strengthen execution of a strategic program spanning technology delivery, business process change, governance, risk management, and operational readiness.

What you will be responsible for

• Mobilize and run the program, establishing scope, outcomes, workstreams, milestones, resource needs, and acceptance criteria.
• Create and maintain the integrated program plan, roadmap, RAID register, dependency map, decision log, action tracker, and executive status reporting.
• Establish effective delivery governance, including working sessions, steering forums, decision rights, escalation paths, and evidence-based closure standards.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to define current-state processes, future-state requirements, operating impacts, controls, and implementation priorities.
• Lead requirements workshops and convert complex discussions into clear requirements, process flows, decisions, owners, and delivery actions.
• Coordinate and drive accountability across application, infrastructure, cyber security, data, operations, risk, compliance, audit, finance, procurement, and vendor teams.
• Identify delivery risks and dependencies early, develop mitigation plans, and elevate issues with clear options and recommendations.
• Prepare concise executive presentations, decision papers, dashboards, meeting materials, and status communications.
• Manage program financials, resource forecasts, vendor activities, delivery forecasts, and change control.
• Coordinate business readiness, implementation planning, communications, training, testing, controls, and transition to sustainable operations.
• Use data, workflow tools, automation, and artificial intelligence responsibly to improve transparency, quality, and delivery speed.