Technical Program Manager - (Financial Services / Payments / Credit Cards)

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Technical Program Manager - (Financial Services / Payments / Credit Cards)
Long Term Contract
Chicago, IL or McLean/Richmond VA

As a role, TPMs:
Bring strong technical acumen and engineering experience to drive the strategy and execution of large scale, technically complex and cross-functional programs that align to Clients’s business priorities. This includes programs in specialized technical areas such as well managed systems, cloud infrastructure and engineering productivity.
Act as a delivery leader, partnering with engineers and product managers to help break down complexity and organizational silos, influence roadmaps, and identify and resolve dependencies.
Leverage technical acumen to actively engage in Design/Build conversations, assess and help make technical trade-offs, and connect dots across teams to drive successful outcomes.
Dive deep into system design and architecture, identifying patterns that impact the product quality and building new systems/long-term solutions.
Ensure consistent flow of information and drive alignment with cross-functional stakeholders.
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Qualifications: 
Meeting Core Competencies below
Experience in Financial Services / Payments / Credit Cards
Prior experience at Capital One or Discover Card a plus
Risk and compliance experience as it applies to Technology applications and engineering

Core Competencies:
Program Management
Manage the strategy and execution of large scale, technically complex and cross-functional programs that typically span across towers/organizations working in close conjunction with the required tech and product roles. This includes creating a program plan inclusive of timelines, milestones, scoping, prioritization, execution, risk management and communication. They help the team strategically prioritize the requirements and drive alignment with senior leaders.

Technical Depth
Exhibit strong technical acumen and have a deep understanding of the technical aspects and capabilities of their organization. TPMs use this experience to influence roadmaps and architecture decisions, identify and resolve hard technical dependencies and help make the right technical tradeoffs. They are regarded as a subject matter expert in an area within their organization (e.g., One Pipeline, ML) and are consulted as a key advisor by engineering, product and other cross-functional leads. They identify opportunities within their organization to create new features for an area or consolidate existing ones in an area for better engineering and products.

Leadership
Regarded as a thought leader in their organization. They are self-directed, proactively defining focus areas and identifying impactful work and opportunities across the organization. They help set the team direction in terms of program impact, product quality and organization efficiency, while also promoting our values and culture on a regular basis. They excel at influencing stakeholders and collaborating with cross-functional partner teams to gain buy-in for undefined areas by successfully negotiating conflicts and tradeoffs. They are not afraid to escalate and resolve issues to unblock the team.