Technology Program Manager/Delivery Lead (nj)

Our client, a leading financial-services technology organization is seeking a IT Program Manager III to join their team. As a IT Program Manager III, you will be part of the Technology Transformation & Risk Remediation organization supporting enterprise vulnerability management and modernization delivery across cloud migration, container modernization, application modernization, and technology lifecycle management. The ideal candidate will have strong executive communication, proven program delivery discipline, and the technical depth to translate vulnerability and architectural risks into executable roadmaps, which will align successfully in the organization.

Job Title:IT Program Manager III

Location:Jersey City, NJ (Hybrid: minimum of 3 days per week). Approved locations include Jersey City, NJ and Pennington, NJ.

Pay Range: $65-$67/hr 

What's the Job?

• Help lead complex, enterprise-scale technology transformation and risk-remediation programs across vulnerability management to drive measurable risk reduction.
• Translate technology risks and architectural requirements into executable delivery roadmaps, establishing governance and delivery discipline from strategy through implementation.
• Serve as the connective layer between senior program leadership and engineering execution, ensuring immediate remediation requirements are addressed while advancing applications toward sustainable strategic platforms.
• Remove cross-functional barriers by coordinating across application development, infrastructure, cybersecurity, architecture, cloud/platform engineering, and risk organizations.
• Build and manage integrated roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and remediation commitments, including executive-level reporting using KPIs/KRIs.

What's Needed?

• Ability to analyze vulnerability, technology, and delivery data to identify trends, systemic constraints, and areas requiring management intervention.
• Proven ability to drive execution and accountability across teams without direct reporting-line authority.
• Strong executive communication skills to translate complex technical topics into clear risks, business impacts, recommendations, and decisions.
• Experience establishing governance, KPIs/KRIs, and executive-level reporting for large technology programs.
• Extensive technology program/project management experience leading complex, enterprise-scale initiatives across multiple applications and technology teams.
• Strong understanding of vulnerability management, including security remediation, technology currency, End-of-Life/End-of-Support risk, and open-source/FOSS vulnerabilities.
• Ability to understand application architecture, infrastructure, and technical dependencies and translate them into executable delivery plans.
• Experience coordinating across application development, cybersecurity, infrastructure, architecture, cloud/platform engineering, and risk organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to build and manage integrated roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and remediation commitments.

What's in it for me?

• Opportunity to lead enterprise vulnerability management and modernization efforts that reduce risk and improve technology currency.
• Role that combines program leadership with technical depth across cloud migration, containerization, and application modernization.
• Clear impact through governance, KPIs/KRIs, and measurable remediation commitments.
• Collaborative environment partnering with engineering, cybersecurity, architecture, and risk stakeholders to remove delivery barriers.
• Motivating challenge of balancing immediate remediation needs with long-term strategic platform advancement.

If this is a role that interests you and you'd like to learn more, click apply now and a recruiter will be in touch with you to discuss this great opportunity. We look forward to speaking with you!

About ManpowerGroup, Parent Company of: Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells.

ManpowerGroup® (NYSE: MAN), the leading global workforce solutions company, helps organizations transform in a fast-changing world of work by sourcing, assessing, developing, and managing the talent that enables them to win. We develop innovative solutions for hundreds of thousands of organizations every year, providing them with skilled talent while finding meaningful, sustainable employment for millions of people across a wide range of industries and skills. Our expert family of brands – Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells – creates substantial value for candidates and clients across more than 75 countries and territories and has done so for over 70 years. We are recognized consistently for our diversity - as a best place to work for Women, Inclusion, Equality and Disability and in 2023 ManpowerGroup was named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 14th year - all confirming our position as the brand of choice for in-demand talent.