Program Manager
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Portfolio & Program Governance Manager
Irving, TX
Salary: $100,000 – $140,000
Full-Time Only
🇺🇸 citizen or Green Card Holders Only
Overview
We are seeking an experienced Portfolio & Program Governance Manager to lead large-scale cloud transformation and infrastructure initiatives within a highly regulated financial services environment. This role will support enterprise-wide shared services initiatives across multiple banking business units, with a strong focus on governance, cloud migration, landing zone strategy, infrastructure modernization, and stakeholder management.
The ideal candidate will have recent financial services experience, strong program governance expertise, and hands-on experience managing enterprise cloud transformation programs involving GCP and AWS environments.
Required Experience
- 6–8+ years of experience in Program, Portfolio, or Project Governance
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
- Recent experience within Banking or Financial Services environments
- Experience managing enterprise programs with budgets of $5M+
- Experience leading cross-functional teams of 20–25+ resources
- Strong experience interacting with C-Level and Director-Level stakeholders
Must Have Skills
- Portfolio and Program Governance
- Cloud Transformation / Cloud Migration Programs
- GCP Cloud (Primary) and AWS Cloud (Secondary)
- Infrastructure, Network, Security, and Cloud Security experience
- Governance, Policy Creation, and Operational Risk Management
- Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps methodologies
- Enterprise PMO governance and roadmap planning
- Stakeholder management and executive communication
- Demand management, prioritization, and intake governance
- Experience driving Landing Zone or enterprise cloud foundation initiatives
Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise portfolio, program, and project governance initiatives across complex cloud and infrastructure programs
- Drive large-scale cloud transformation initiatives including landing zone implementation and cloud adoption strategies
- Manage intake, prioritization, demand planning, and alignment with strategic business objectives
- Provide governance oversight across engineering, infrastructure, network, and security teams
- Develop program roadmaps, governance frameworks, delivery metrics, and operational models
- Ensure delivery excellence through Agile and DevOps best practices
- Identify and mitigate operational, delivery, compliance, and technology risks
- Partner with senior leadership and business stakeholders across multiple banking units
- Facilitate governance forums, executive reporting, steering committees, and status reviews
- Drive process optimization, transparency, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Support engineering productivity through Agile execution including standups, retrospectives, backlog grooming, and Kanban workflows
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with enterprise cloud landing zone programs
- Experience within shared services or enterprise infrastructure organizations
- Strong understanding of cloud governance and security frameworks
- SAFe Agile or PMP certifications preferred
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