Strategic Program Manager, Tech Transformation

trace3; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Trace3 is seeking a Management Consulting Manager to partner with clients in strategic planning and roadmaps, delivering transformative technology programs across cloud, data/AI, cybersecurity and enterprise platforms.

You will lead cross‑functional teams, establish governance, PMO cadence, and adoption-focused delivery, ensuring cohesive designs, effective data architecture, and measurable business outcomes for Trace3's clients.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery for complex, multi-workstream technology programs (e.g., cloud, data/AI, cybersecurity, enterprise platforms), establishing program governance, PMO cadence, and cross-workstream orchestration (RAID, dependencies, critical path, change control, financials, benefits tracking).
• Define program scope, OKRs/success metrics, integrated roadmaps, resource plans, and interdependencies; ensure requirements traceability to business outcomes and adoption plans.
• Create executive-ready dashboards and status reporting for scope, schedule, budget, risk, and benefits realization to maintain alignment and transparency.
• Work closely with clients to understand their challenges, gather and analyze data, formulate hypotheses, and define actionable plans to solutions.
• Deliver thoughtful recommendations through compelling presentations to ultimately influence business decisions.
• Lead the design and execution of technical capability assessments, analyzing results and presenting recommendations in an effective, logical manner to the client.
• Serve as an integrated Program Manager responsible for guiding, setting expectations and methodology from planning to execution.
• Manage the scope, requirements, resources and budget for all assigned projects.
• Develop, standardize, and maintain Trace3 consulting playbooks and delivery toolkits (charters, governance packs, RAID/RACI, KPI trees, benefits realization plans), and operate a delivery excellence rhythm with quality checkpoints and retrospectives to uplift consistency and outcomes.
• Blend and tailor PMI/PMBOK and Agile/SAFe with change (Prosci/ADKAR) and ITIL service transition, aligning to client context and regulated environments as needed.
• Define and enforce quality gates (design reviews, test strategy sign-off, cutover readiness, hypercare exit); monitor delivery health metrics (schedule/budget variance/EVM, defect density, incident rates post-go-live, adoption/CSAT/NPS) and implement corrective actions.

Job description

Trace3 is seeking a Management Consulting Manager to partner with clients in strategic planning and roadmaps, delivering transformative technology programs across cloud, data/AI, cybersecurity and enterprise platforms.

You will lead cross‑functional teams, establish governance, PMO cadence, and adoption-focused delivery, ensuring cohesive designs, effective data architecture, and measurable business outcomes for Trace3's clients.