Technical Program Manager (Information Security)

WEX Inc; United States; On-site; USD 101,000 - 122,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Retirement Plan

Paid Time Off

Health Savings Account

Job summary

WEX Inc. is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager focused on information security. You will lead security projects across teams, drive delivery, and partner with technology leaders to ensure timely, compliant outcomes.

The role emphasizes planning, risk management, and clear reporting across global time zones, with emphasis on HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOX. Strong Jira/Confluence skills and stakeholder communication are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in senior technical program management for security projects.
• Experience in FinTech or highly regulated environments.
• Strong collaboration with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end management of Information Security projects.
• Plan, track, and report on milestones and risks.
• Coordinate with Architecture, Engineering, and Product teams.
• Manage dependencies across engineering teams.
• Ensure compliance with HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOX and related regs.
• Maintain Atlassian data hygiene for accurate reporting.

Skills

Security program management

Information security

Cross-functional leadership

Regulatory compliance

HIPAA PCI-DSS SOX knowledge

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

About the opportunity

WEX, Inc. is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager with experience managing Information Security projects, resources, and timelines. Through collaboration with cross-functional Technology teams, this role will be responsible for providing comprehensive reporting, resource planning and assignments, risk monitoring, and project leadership. As a Senior Technical Program Manager you will partner with technology leaders to drive the successful delivery of key initiatives. Your role focuses on streamlining execution and coordinating across cross-functional teams to manage projects centered on identifying emerging threats, instituting security controls, and work to ensure that threats and vulnerabilities are rapidly identified and remediated. By tracking progress against defined plans, you will ensure the delivery of high-impact solutions to support the Information Security mission, and supporting internal and external customers in contractual and regulatory Security requirements. The position will be within the Tech Innovation & Innovation Operations organization (TISO) which is a strategic function to accelerate WEX’s product innovation velocity by optimizing how we deliver technology. In this role, you will work alongside the Global Information Security team which is focused across all lines of business to identify emerging threats, test security controls, and work to ensure that threats and vulnerabilities are rapidly identified and remediated.

How you'll make an impact

• Collaboration, Planning, and Execution End-to-End Ownership: Drive technical implementation projects for Information Security project-related activities and initiatives.
• Continuous Planning: Partner with Product and Technology leadership to facilitate planning sessions, ensuring program increments align with business goals and adaptive requirements.
• Technical Roadmapping: Develop detailed work breakdown structures (WBS), milestones, and execution plans for system consolidations and workflow enhancements.
• Develop and maintain a Security portfolio workstream plan that includes milestones, tasks and activities Execution & Risk Management Delivery Oversight: Monitor project progress in partnership with Tech Leads, facilitating course corrections and surfacing risks to stakeholders for timely mitigation.
• Dependency & Integration Management: Track and coordinate complex dependencies across engineering teams, focusing on application routing, auth systems, and environment configurations.
• Security & Compliance: Coordinate with security teams to ensure internal services meet governance requirements and modern architectural standards.
• Stakeholder Management & Reporting Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as the primary liaison between Architecture, Engineering, and Product teams to ensure transparency and alignment on new ways of working.
• Data Stewardship: Maintain high standards of data hygiene within the Atlassian suite to support accurate status reporting, metrics-driven decision-making, and financial capitalization.
• Outcome Tracking & Change Adoption: Measure project performance against committed goals, using data and adoption metrics to ensure new capabilities are successfully integrated. Leverage these insights to drive continuous improvement and ensure enterprise-level changes deliver their intended value.
• Communication & Stakeholder Enablement: Orchestrate the end-to-end change journey through strategic, consistent communication. You will align stakeholders across the enterprise, at all levels, ensuring teams are informed, trained, and empowered to adopt new processes or technologies with minimal friction.

Experience you'll bring

• Experience: 5+ years in Senior Technical Program Management roles managing Security Projects that are complex, interdependent projects and enterprise-level change. Experience in FinTech or highly regulated environments with the ability to balance speed with regulatory realities is a major plus.
• Technical Domain Depth: Demonstrated expertise managing security projects across varying platforms, applications, endpoint security, infrastructure, networks, email security, and cloud/container security.
• Strategic & Orchestrated: Proven ability to partner with system owners and engineers across the enterprise to handle scoping, task management, and budget oversight from inception to completion.
• Strategic Leadership: Expert at navigating ambiguity, mitigating risks, and aligning cross‑functional teams. You should be comfortable moving between high‑level strategy and high‑accuracy, detail‑oriented tasks.
• Autonomy & Drive: A highly motivated, independent worker capable of operating autonomously across global time zones with minimal oversight, while remaining a collaborative partner to the broader Enterprise.
• Technical Delivery: Proven track record with HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOX and other regulatory frameworks. Enjoy standardizing, automating and optimizing technologies and processes.
• Methodology: Deep proficiency in Agile methodologies and tools (Jira/Confluence). Ensure project changes are implemented via project change control processes. PMP or Agile certifications are a plus.
• Communication: Strong ability to influence executive stakeholders and drive results within small, high‑performing teams. Document and share your findings, detail issues, make recommendations, and identify solutions.

Pay Range: $100,500.00 - $122,100.00

WEX’s comprehensive and market competitive benefits are designed to support your personal and professional well‑being.

Benefits include health, dental and vision insurances, retirement savings plan, paid time off, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability insurance, tuition reimbursement, and more.

WEX is a global commerce platform that helps businesses solve for operational complexities like employee benefits, managing and mobilizing fleets, and streamlining payments. With over 6,500 employees, we work with large and small companies in more than 200 countries and territories, and can tailor our services to meet the unique needs of their businesses.

We hire people who share our passion for continuous innovation and client service that is unparalleled in the industry.

Offering comprehensive and market competitive benefits, our offerings are designed to support your personal and professional well‑being.

If you’re looking for a growing career - come be part of WEX today. To learn more about our employee benefits, please click here.

WEX is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, disability or other protected status.

WEX promotes a drug‑free workplace.

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