Senior Program Manager, Enterprise Cloud Migration

Voya Financial; Windsor (CT); Hybrid; USD 114,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) Matching

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Volunteer time off

Job summary

Voya Financial in Windsor, CT is seeking a Senior Program Manager to lead a large-scale cloud migration and data-center exit program. You will shape the program roadmap, govern with the EPMO, and drive cross-functional execution across technology, security, and operations.

The role requires partnering with senior leaders to translate objectives into actionable plans, manage risks, dependencies, and milestones, and communicate progress to executives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field.
• Experience in PMO/EPMO environments.
• Strong communication and leadership to drive complex programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic planning and execution for a major cloud migration and data-center exit program.
• Develop and manage an integrated program roadmap with milestones and executives reporting.
• Partner with EPMO leadership, technology executives and stakeholders to establish outcomes and governance.
• Drive migrations through design, remediation, build, test, migration, stabilization, and operations.
• Oversee remediation and development activities to prepare workloads for cloud readiness.
• Coordinate across application, infrastructure, security, network, database, and vendor teams.
• Ensure readiness for each migration wave with environment prep, security controls, and rollback planning.
• Communicate program health, risks, decisions, and accomplishments to senior leaders.

Skills

Cloud migration leadership

Senior program management

Executive reporting

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk & issue management

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Together we fight for everyone’s opportunity for a better financial future.

We will do this together — with customers, partners and colleagues. We will fight for others, not against: We will stand up for and champion everyone’s access to opportunities. The status quo is not good enough … we believe every individual and every community deserves access to financial opportunities. We are determined to support both individuals and communities in reaching a better financial future. We know that reaching this future depends on our actions today.

Like our Purpose Statement, Voya believes in being bold and committed to action. We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with — and those we acquire throughout our lives — are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work. Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision.

Getto Know the Opportunity:

Voya is advancing a complex enterprise cloud migration and data center exit initiative, with approximately 400 applications moving from on-premises data centers to the cloud. Azure is the target cloud provider; however, relevant experience with any major public cloud provider is valued. This Senior Program Manager role will be part of the Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) and will provide strategic planning, program governance, andexecutionleadership across a large, cross-functional transformation effort. The successful candidate will bring strong EPMO program management discipline, executive communication skills, and the technical fluency needed to partner effectively with application development, infrastructure, cloud engineering, data, security, operations, vendor partners, and business stakeholders. This role requires a leader who can translate complex technical work into clear plans, measurable outcomes, and actionable decisions while helping teams navigate dependencies, risks, issues, and priorities in a fast-paced environment.

***Location: Candidates must reside within reasonable commuting distance of a Voya office in Windsor, CT; Boston, MA (Seaport); or the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area and participate in a remote / hybrid work arrangement as business needs require.***

The ContributionsYou’llMake:

• Lead strategic planning and execution for a major enterprise cloud migration and data center exit program, ensuring alignment to businessobjectives, technology priorities, and EPMO standards.

• Develop and manage an integratedprogramroadmap, including milestones, workstreams, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, financials, and executive reporting.

• Partner with EPMO leadership, technology executives, business stakeholders, and vendor partners toestablishclear program outcomes, governance routines, escalation paths, and delivery expectations.

• Drive applications through the migration lifecycle, including design, remediation, build, test, migration, stabilization, operational transition, and post-migration support.

• Oversee application remediation and development activitiesrequiredto prepare workloads for cloud migration, including currency remediation, vulnerability remediation, security updates, cloud standards adherence, and production readiness.

• Coordinate application development, infrastructure, cloud engineering, networking, database, security, DevOps, operations, and business teams to remove blockers andmaintaindelivery momentum.

• Ensure readiness for each migration wave, including environment preparation, connectivity, security controls, monitoring, backup and recovery, cutover planning, rollback planning, operational handoff, and benefit realization tracking.

• Communicate program health, risks, decisions, and accomplishments to senior leaders through clear, concise, and actionable updates.

Minimum Knowledge & Experience:

• Significant experienceleading large-scale cloud migration, data center exit, infrastructure modernization, application modernization, or enterprise transformation programs within a structured PMO or EPMO environment.

• Demonstrated senior program management experience, including strategic planning, integrated roadmap development, governance routines, executive-level status reporting,financial management, risk and issue management, and dependency coordination.

• Proven ability to partner with senior business and technology leaders to translate enterpriseobjectivesinto actionable plans, measurable outcomes, and disciplined delivery execution.

• Experience coordinating complex migration work acrossapplication, infrastructure, security, network, database, operations, vendor, and business teams.

• Experience managing application remediation and development activitiesrequiredto support cloud migration readiness and production deployment.

• Strong understanding of infrastructure concepts, includingcompute, storage, networking, databases, load balancing, firewalls, DNS, identity, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and environment provisioning.

• Working knowledge of security capabilities and controlsrequiredfor cloud migration, including access management, firewalls, web application firewalls, key vaults, certificates,secretsmanagement, and secure connectivity patterns.

• Familiarity withDevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, observability, site reliability engineering practices, and cloud operating models.

• Ability to listen to technical resources, ask effective questions, connect technical details to business impacts, andidentifydependencies, risks, issues, assumptions, and decisions across application, infrastructure, data, network, and security domains.

• Demonstrated ability to manage ambiguity, influence without direct authority, balance competing priorities, and lead teams through a fast-paced delivery environment.

• Working knowledge of public cloud migration concepts and patterns across Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or similar cloud providers.

• Experienceoperatingin regulated environments with security, compliance, audit, privacy, or risk management requirements.

• Bachelor’s degree oran equivalentcombination of relevant professional experience, training, and industry-recognized certifications.

Compensation Pay Disclosure:

Voya is committed to pay that’s fair and equitable, which means comparable pay for comparable roles and responsibilities.

The below annual base salary range reflects the expected hiring range(s) for this position in the location(s) listed. In addition to base salary, Voya offers incentive opportunities (i.e., annual cash incentives, sales incentives, and/or long-term incentives) based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Voya Financial is willing to pay at the time of this posting.

Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted salary range based upon the candidate’s geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

$114,480 - $170,070 USD

Be Well. Stay Well.

Voya provides the resources that can make a difference in your lives. To us, this means thriving physically, financially, socially and emotionally. Voya benefits are designed to help you do just that. That’s why we offer an array of plans, programs, tools and resources with one goal in mind: To help you and your family be well and stay well.

What We Offer

• Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
• 401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
• Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
• Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year

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Critical Skills

At Voya, we have identified the following critical skills which are key to success in our culture:

• Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.
• Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
• Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
• Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
• Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.

Learn more about Critical Skills

Equal Employment Opportunity

Voya Financial is an equal-opportunity employer. Voya Financial provides equal opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other status protected by state or local law.

Reasonable Accommodations

Voya is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Voya will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please reference resources for applicants with disabilities.

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