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Lighthouse Technology Services is partnering with our client to fill their Program / Project Manager position! This is a 12+ month contract-to-hire opportunity and will be remote in the United States (ET hours). This role will be a W2 employee of Lighthouse Technology Services.

Position Overview

The Program / Project Manager will serve as a senior enterprise delivery leader, acting as a strategic partner to business and product leadership. This role is responsible for orchestrating delivery across multiple systems and highly matrixed teams, navigating regulatory-driven complexity, and driving execution with rigor, clarity, and influence. The ideal candidate is proactive, outcome-oriented, and comfortable operating in ambiguity while maintaining strong delivery discipline.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Strategic Program Leadership

• Partner closely with business and product leadership to shape future-state delivery plans emerging from discovery and gap analysis
• Sequence system enhancements across near-term compliance needs and long-term architectural goals
• Actively manage cross-workstream dependencies across program verticals
• Identify scope, timing, and resourcing tradeoffs and proactively bring forward recommendations

Cross-Team & Stakeholder Orchestration

• Coordinate work across a highly matrixed enterprise environment, including multiple technology, data, and business teams
• Drive alignment between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring shared understanding of constraints, decisions, and impacts
• Facilitate decision-making forums and escalate when alignment stalls

Delivery & Execution Excellence

• Own integrated delivery plans, including milestones, timelines, critical paths, and dependencies
• Maintain risk, issue, and decision logs across systems and teams
• Provide clear status reporting and lead action-oriented meetings
• Clearly articulate blockers, risks, and resolution paths
• Adapt plans as discovery evolves while maintaining delivery commitments

Risk & Blocker Management

• Anticipate and manage risks related to data readiness, system capability gaps, regulatory interpretation changes, and competing enterprise priorities
• Actively work with owners to remove blockers
• Escalate risks with appropriate context, options, and recommendations

What You’ll Need to Have:

Program & Project Management Expertise

• Proven experience leading large, cross-functional enterprise programs, ideally involving:
• Multiple technology platforms
• Data-intensive workflows
• Regulatory or compliance-driven delivery
• Strong command of program management fundamentals (integrated planning, dependency management, executive-level status reporting, risk and issue mitigation)

Systems & Data Fluency

• Comfortable operating in complex systems landscapes, even if not deeply technical.
• Ability to:
• Understand system boundaries, integrations, and data flows
• Translate architectural concepts into delivery implications
• Ask the right questions of product managers, architects and engineers
• Experience working alongside product managers and technical leads as peers.

Stakeholder & Influence Skills

• Strong executive communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority, align senior leaders with differing priorities, and navigate ambiguity and competing incentives
• Able to clearly frame risks, tradeoffs, and decisions needed

Pay Range: $75-$80+/hr

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