6-12 month contract with strong potential for extension and/or hire
Hybrid based in St. Louis, MO
About the Role
We are seeking a Technology Program Manager to help coordinate delivery across a growing Business Technology organization. This role will provide structure, visibility, and governance across multiple technology initiatives and teams, ensuring dependencies, risks, priorities, and delivery timelines are effectively managed.
Reporting to a Director of Technology Delivery, the Technology Program Manager will serve as a key connector across technical teams, business stakeholders, and leadership. The ideal candidate is highly organized, comfortable working in a matrixed environment, and able to translate complex delivery information into clear, actionable business updates.
Key Responsibilities
Cross-Team Delivery Coordination
- Track dependencies, risks, issues, and blockers across multiple technology initiatives and workstreams.
- Maintain a portfolio-level roadmap and identify sequencing conflicts, resource constraints, and potential delivery impacts.
- Facilitate coordination across teams when initiatives have shared dependencies or competing priorities.
- Escalate significant delivery risks and blockers to appropriate technology and business leadership.
Delivery Governance & Reporting
- Track key delivery metrics and provide visibility into project and program health.
- Maintain appropriate documentation, decision records, approvals, and delivery artifacts.
- Establish consistent reporting practices across teams and initiatives.
- Help ensure technology delivery processes and governance standards are followed consistently.
Executive & Stakeholder Visibility
- Build and maintain dashboards, status reports, and other portfolio-level reporting.
- Prepare materials and updates for leadership meetings and strategic reviews.
- Translate technical delivery information into clear, concise, business-focused communications.
- Provide leadership with visibility into progress, risks, dependencies, and upcoming priorities.
Process & Practice Improvement
- Partner with Product Owners, Technical Analysts, Project Managers, and technical leads to improve delivery processes.
- Help establish and refine templates, workflows, prioritization practices, and delivery ceremonies.
- Identify opportunities to improve consistency, efficiency, and transparency across technology initiatives.
- Support the continued development and maturity of the organization's technology delivery practice.
Qualifications
Required
- 4+ years of experience in technology project or program management.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent projects, workstreams, or initiatives.
- Strong understanding of traditional delivery metrics, including scope, schedule, budget, risks, and dependencies.
- Familiarity with software and technology delivery metrics such as cycle time, deployment frequency, quality, and defect rates.
- Experience establishing or maintaining cross-team dependency, risk, and issue management processes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to operate effectively in a matrixed environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
- Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Preferred
- Experience working with AI-assisted, automation, or emerging technology delivery practices.
- Interest in understanding how AI and automation may impact technology delivery, governance, risk, and quality.
- Experience in construction, engineering, manufacturing, field services, or another project-driven industry.
- Experience with project or portfolio management tools such as Jira, Smartsheet, Monday.com, Microsoft Project, or similar platforms.
- Experience supporting technology transformation, digital modernization, or enterprise technology initiatives.
What Success Looks Like:
First 90 Days
- Establish strong visibility into cross-team dependencies, risks, and delivery priorities.
- Build effective relationships with technology leaders, delivery teams, and business stakeholders.
Within 6 Months
- Portfolio reporting provides clear visibility into the status and health of key initiatives.
- Risks, dependencies, and delivery concerns are identified and escalated proactively.
- Teams are consistently using established delivery processes and reporting standards.
Within 12 Months
- Cross-team planning and sequencing becomes increasingly proactive and coordinated.
- Leadership has a reliable source of truth for technology portfolio status, risks, and priorities.
- The Technology Program Manager is recognized as a key connector across technology teams and business stakeholders.
Ongoing
- Help strengthen the organization's technology delivery practice through effective governance, communication, process improvement, and portfolio visibility.