Program Manager

Required

 10 years in IT delivery with 5 years as Program or senior Project Manager accountable for multi-

workstream programs and their overall status.

 Demonstrated experience delivering data platform, data warehouse, data lake, or large-scale integration

programs, not solely application or infrastructure projects.

 Working knowledge of modern cloud data architecture: ingestion patterns, batch and near-real-time

pipelines, lake zones, data quality gates, and API or file-based integration.

 Proven track record managing a large interface or integration portfolio through build, test, and production

cutover.

 Rigorous discipline with program plans, dependency registers, RAID logs, and status reporting, plus the

ability to keep them genuinely current.

 Strong executive presence: able to present status and bad news to senior stakeholders clearly and hold the

line under pressure.

 Proven success running a multi-party program, with teams from the client, systems integrators, and

technology or implementation partners delivering together, and the ability to lead through influence rather

than reporting lines.

 Experience coordinating across many stakeholder groups: business teams, internal engineering, package or

platform program teams, source-system owners, and downstream consumers.

 Hands-on with Jira, Azure DevOps, MS Project or Smartsheet, and Confluence or equivalent; comfortable

building reporting from delivery tooling.

 Experience in both Agile and hybrid or stage-gated delivery models, and the judgment to know which each

workstream needs.

 Ability to work a hybrid schedule from Cary, NC.

Preferred

 Insurance or financial services experience, with awareness of statutory and regulatory reporting, audit

expectations, and financial close constraints.

 Hands-on familiarity with Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, and ADLS Gen 2, or comparable platforms

such as Synapse, Microsoft Fabric, or Snowflake.

 Experience on an ERP modernization or Workday program, including Workday integration patterns (EIB,

Core Connectors, Prism) and their delivery constraints.

 Experience running a program that supports multiple business domains in sequence, such as Finance,

Actuarial, Investment, Reinsurance, or Risk.

 PMP, PgMP, PRINCE2, SAFe, or Scrum certification.

 Experience managing distributed onshore and offshore teams across multiple vendors and time zones.

What Success Looks Like

 A single integrated program plan exists, is trusted, and reflects reality on any given day.

 Every workstream has a clear, current status, and the overall program status is accurate and defensible to

leadership.

 Cross-team and cross-party dependencies are visible, owned, and dated well before they become blockers.

 Every participating company plans, reports, and delivers to the same standards, and the program operates

as one team rather than several.

 Risks are mitigated rather than merely reported; issues and blockers are resolved with urgency and clear

ownership.

 Inbound, Workday bi-directional, and outbound interfaces land on committed dates with quality, and

cutovers are uneventful.

 Stakeholders at every level, from engineers to executives, are informed without having to chase, and

surprises are rare.

 The delivery model, cadence, and reporting established in this phase scale cleanly to the Actuarial,

Investment, Reinsurance, and Risk phases.