Technical Program Manager
Hybrid 3 days on-site 2 days remote in Riverwood, IL
Pay Rate-$90-$93 an hour
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Role Overview:
DDX is nearing the final phase of a multi-year initiative to migrate all key business capabilities from a legacy, on-premises environment to the cloud. Currently, 40–50% of the migration is complete. The remaining capabilities—provisioning, lifecycle management (LCM), reporting, boarding, and transaction processing—must be transitioned by the end of 2026.
This role will lead the end-to-end migration and re-architecture of the Payments Network Digital eWallet Domain (DDX) technology stack to OpenShift Cloud Platform (OCP) and AWS. It requires a hands-on engineering or architecture background combined with strong project/program management skills and the ability to operate independently across organizational levels.
Reporting Line: Delivery Management, Capital One Global Payments Network
Key Responsibilities:
1. Program Leadership
- Manage daily operations of the DDX Modernization Program.
- Oversee reporting, stakeholder engagement, risk/issue tracking, work breakdown, execution, and communications.
- Navigate a hybrid delivery model incorporating both waterfall and agile methodologies.
2. Technical Architecture & Planning
- Collaborate with development teams, product owners, and architects to define and refine the target state architecture.
- Develop detailed migration plans for integrated components (primarily API-based), covering development, testing, deployment, and data migration.
- Ensure no component remains idle in production/staging without active data flow.
3. Executive Communication
- Regularly update executive leadership and product management.
- Translate complex technical plans into clear, impactful narratives and action items.
4. Cross-Functional Influence
- Drive accountability across all levels of leadership without direct authority.
- Ensure alignment and commitment to the modernization roadmap.
5. Dependency Management
- Coordinate dependencies across Global Payments Network, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Compliance, and other contributing teams.
6. Collaboration
- Work closely with business program management, portfolio management, compliance, and agile delivery teams.
Required Experience & Skills:
- 10+ years Program or Project Management
- 3+ years Application Development
- 3+ years Cloud Migration
- 3+ years Direct People Management
- 3+ years Engineering
Technical & Methodological Expertise:
- Agile methodologies
- Cloud Architecture & Computing
- Cloud Data Migration
- Executive Communications
- Financial Technology
- High-Volume Transaction Systems
- JIRA
- Microservices
- OpenShift Cloud Platform (OCP)
- PMP Certification