Senior Program Director Technology Modernization

We are seeking a strategic, highly technical, and execution-oriented technology leader to drive the governance and delivery of a multi-year, enterprise-wide modernization strategy. This high-impact role will oversee multiple execution workstreams - Including application modernization , data consolidation, platform transformations, while increasing security and controls, in an AI driven market.

Why this role is Important to us: The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in enterprise architecture, modern engineering practices, IT governance, financial oversight, audit and compliance, and cross-functional program delivery. This is a highly visible leadership position with influence across the organization and requires the ability to translate complex technical strategies into clear business outcomes, execution roadmaps, and measurable value realization.

- Lead the governance structure for execution workstreams aligned with the firm's technology modernization strategy. - Chair monthly executive meetings, providing updates on program status, risks, decisions, financials, and outcome-based metrics for a $150M investment portfolio. - Represent the program with internal stakeholder, executive board, regulatory, and client briefings. - Promote transparency and accountability through OKRs, execution metrics, and spotlight reporting.

- Foster a culture of intentional collaboration across all teams contributing to the technology strategy. - Establish escalation channels to ensure timely resolution of program blockers. - Enhance technical delivery management to ensure timely, risk-aware execution of IT initiatives, inclusive of leveraging multi 3rd party teams for execution. - Provide thought leadership to optimize existing GTS processes. - Strong knowledge of application modernization technologies and processes. - Lead modernization efforts across hybrid cloud environments, including infrastructure patterns, migration sequencing, application dependency mapping, and platform readiness. - Partner with architecture, engineering, security, and operations teams to define target-state technology standards, reference architectures, and modernization guardrails. - Drive adoption of modern software engineering and infrastructure practices, including DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, SRE principles, and infrastructure as code. - Provide oversight of technical design decisions, environment strategy, release coordination, and operational readiness for critical enterprise platforms. - Evaluate technical tradeoffs across legacy remediation, re-platforming, re-hosting, refactoring, and SaaS adoption strategies.

- Oversee centralized financial services including demand portfolio creation, monthly reporting, resource forecasting, and vendor/consultant oversight. - Integrate resiliency initiatives to maximize benefits from modernization efforts. - Partner with 2nd and 3rd lines of defense to ensure transparency in process/control changes and associated risk impacts. - Strong working knowledge of IT 3rd party provided services in support of modernization initiatives

- 15+ years of experience in IT program governance, delivery, and transformation leadership. - Proven success managing large-scale, cross-functional technology initiatives. - Strong knowledge of IT audit, compliance, and risk frameworks. - Financial acumen with experience overseeing multi-million-dollar portfolios. - Exceptional communication and executive stakeholder engagement skills. - Experience with application and cloud migration, data modernization, and identity management is highly desirable. - Deep understanding of enterprise infrastructure, application architecture, distributed systems, and modernization patterns across on-premises and cloud platforms. - Demonstrated experience leading complex transformation programs involving cloud adoption, data center strategy, application rationalization, resilience, cybersecurity, and operational risk reduction. - Strong working knowledge of DevSecOps, software development lifecycle controls, release governance, and engineering quality practices. - Experience partnering with enterprise architects, infrastructure leaders, security teams, and business executives to align technical roadmaps with strategic priorities. - Knowledge of regulatory, audit, and control expectations within highly governed technology environments. - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field required; advanced degree preferred. - Relevant certifications such as AWS, Azure, TOGAF, CISSP, PMP, ITIL, or equivalent are a plus.