Senior Technical Program Manager – Financial Crimes & Compliance Analytics

Pacific Consulting Group; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Annual bonus

Paid time off

Life and disability insurance

Training and development

Job summary

Pacific Consulting Group (PCG) is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to own a multi-year program delivering analytics for financial crimes compliance. You will set technical direction, manage schedules and risks, guide architecture, and serve as the face of the technical team to government stakeholders.

The role requires eligibility for a Federal Public Trust clearance, U.S. citizenship or permanent residency, and prior leadership of software/analytics-product teams.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizen or permanent resident with 3+ years of continuous U.S. residency and the ability to obtain a Federal Public Trust clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in technical program or project management.
• Direct experience managing teams that build and maintain software or analytics products.
• Working knowledge of distributed computing environments (e.g., Apache Spark).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to explain technical work clearly to diverse audiences.
• Experience running sprint-based or Agile delivery cycles.
• Proven ability to manage multiple work streams and competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Plan, run, and track all work across the program’s task areas: platform development, fraud analytics, and case delivery.
• Serve as the main technical point of contact for the government client and its stakeholders.
• Own the program schedule, risk register, and deliverable calendar; report status weekly and monthly.
• Guide architectural decisions, tool choices, and work priority; escalate decisions needing client sign-off.
• Run quality control and review deliverables before client submission.
• Plan and lead quarterly sprint cycles for feature development with engineering and analyst teams.
• Lead onboarding, transition, and knowledge-transfer for new staff and work.
• Supervise and mentor junior technical staff across engineering and analyst roles.
• Lead meetings; prepare meeting minutes and status reports.
• Identify program risks and raise them with mitigation plans.
• Support staffing plans and the security clearance process for new members.

Skills

Communication skills

Agile delivery

Multi-task management

Distributed computing

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/DS/IS

Tools

Apache Spark

Graph analytics platforms

NLP/LLM-based systems

Job description

Senior Technical Program Manager – Financial Crimes & Compliance Analytics

About this role

PCG partners with a federal government client on a multi-year program that builds analytics tools for financial crimes compliance. The work spans a graph analytics platform used daily by government examiners, fraud detection capabilities that combine large language models with network analysis, and analyst-led casework that turns raw data into investigative leads.

We’re looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to own this program end to end. You’ll set technical direction, keep schedules and risk under control, guide the team on architecture and priority, and act as the face of the technical team to our government stakeholders. This is a senior leadership role that reports to company leadership and works directly with the client’s program leads.

This position requires the ability to obtain a Federal Public Trust clearance (moderate risk background check). Eligibility is limited to U.S. Citizens or permanent residents with at least three years of continuous U.S. residency. PCG is unable to sponsor H-1B visas. Applicants who do not meet these requirements will not be reviewed.

Responsibilities

• Plan, run, and track all work across the program’s task areas, including platform development, fraud analytics, and case delivery work
• Act as the main technical point of contact for the government client and its stakeholders
• Own the program schedule, risk register, and deliverable calendar; report status weekly and monthly
• Guide technical decisions on architecture, tool choice, and work priority; elevate decisions that need client sign-off
• Run a quality control process; review deliverables before they go to the client
• Plan and lead quarterly sprint cycles for feature development with the engineering and analyst teams
• Lead onboarding, transition, and knowledge-transfer activities for new staff and new work
• Supervise and mentor junior technical staff across engineering and analyst roles
• Lead meetings; prepare meeting minutes and status reports
• Identify program risks and raise them to leadership with mitigation plans
• Support staffing plans and the security clearance process for new team members

Required Qualifications

• U.S. citizen or permanent resident with three or more years of continuous U.S. residency, with the ability to obtain a Federal Public Trust clearance (required for federal contractor work)
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems
• 8+ years of experience in technical program or project management
• Direct experience managing teams that build and maintain software or analytics products
• Working knowledge of distributed computing environments (for example, Apache Spark), enough to guide technical conversations even without hands-on coding
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to explain technical work clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience running sprint-based or Agile delivery cycles
• Proven ability to manage multiple work streams and competing priorities at once

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP certification or equivalent Agile/Scrum certification
• Experience in Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), or other financial crimes compliance work
• Familiarity with graph analytics platforms or natural language processing/LLM-based systems
• Prior experience on IRS, Treasury, or other federal financial-compliance contracts
• Experience managing transition-in or transition-out of federal task orders
• Fully remote position (company- or client-provided laptop)
• Salary commensurate with experience, plus annual bonus
• Paid time off
• Basic life and disability insurance
• Professional training and development support

About PCG

Pacific Consulting Group (PCG) is a consulting firm specializing in customer experience research, analytics, and modeling. The team draws on behavioral science, data science, and applied research to help clients understand what their customers need and where to focus improvements. PCG’s client base includes large federal agencies, which means analysts work with complex, high-stakes datasets in environments where rigor and data quality matter. The team includes researchers, behavioral analysts, project managers, programmers, and data analysts — a collaborative group where generalist curiosity and technical depth are both valued.

Pacific Consulting Group (PCG) is an equal employment opportunity employer. We adhere to a policy of making employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age or disability. We assure you that your opportunity for employment with PCG depends solely on your qualifications.