Technical Program Manager

Ascendion

$108K — $156K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in large-scale technology program delivery
  • 5+ years in managing complex financial services initiatives
  • Experience with enterprise platform modernization or acquisition integrations
  • Familiarity with cash management, digital assets, and stablecoin initiatives
  • Proven track record managing cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead delivery of integration initiatives across business and technology areas.
  • Establish governance and reporting for program management.
  • Coordinate across multiple technical and operational teams for project execution.
  • Drive integration from initiation to post-launch support.
  • Partner with engineering on API and data integration designs.
  • Facilitate technical discussions and design reviews.
  • Manage stakeholder communications and drive consensus on project priorities.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Long-term and short-term disability insurance
  • 5 personal days per year
  • 10-15 days of paid vacation
  • 6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per year
  • Access to Ascendion Learning Management System
Full Job Description
About the Role
  • Job Title:Technical Program Manager / Technical Program Lead
  • StoneCastle Integration Program
  • Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ (Onsite - 5 days) - no exceptions


Key Responsibilities
  • Program Leadership
    • Lead end-to-end delivery of StoneCastle integration initiatives across multiple business and technology workstreams.
    • Establish programme governance, delivery plans, RAID logs, dependency management, and executive reporting.
    • Coordinate delivery activities across Product, Engineering, Operations, Architecture, Security, Compliance, and vendor teams.
    • Drive programme execution from initiation through production deployment and post-launch support.
  • Technical Delivery Management
    • Partner with engineering teams to design and deliver integrations involving core banking platforms, customer portals and APIs, trust systems, deposit network services, merchant and payment platforms, and external banking partners and service providers.
    • Manage API, data, cloud, and operational integration workstreams.
    • Facilitate technical design reviews and architecture discussions.
    • Identify and remove delivery blockers across teams.
  • Stakeholder Management
    • Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams.
    • Communicate programmer status, risks, decisions, and milestones to leadership.
    • Drive consensus across competing priorities and stakeholders.
    • Support integration activities involving acquired businesses and strategic partnerships.
  • Risk & Compliance Management
    • Ensure delivery aligns with security, regulatory, and operational requirements.
    • Partner with Risk, Compliance, and Information Security teams throughout programmer execution.
    • Drive solutions tracking, operational readiness, support models, business controls, and production governance.
  • Planning & Execution
    • Develop and maintain integrated project plans, resource schedules, allocation tracking, resource forecasting, and executive dashboards.
    • Manage dependencies across multiple programmes and vendor organizations.
    • Drive issue resolution and escalation management.

Minimum Qualifications
  • 8+ years of experience delivering large-scale technology programmes.
  • 5+ years of experience managing complex financial services, banking, fintech, or payments initiatives.
  • Experience leading enterprise platform modernization or acquisition integration programmes.
  • Experience with cash management, digital assets, and stablecoin initiatives.
  • Demonstrated success managing cross-functional delivery teams.

Desired Qualifications

Strong understanding of:
  • API-based integrations
  • Cloud-native architecture (AWS preferred)
  • Microservices and distributed systems
  • Core banking or financial platforms
  • Payment processing and money movement
  • Data integration and reconciliation processes
  • Security and regulatory requirements in financial services
  • PMP, PgMP, Agile, Scrum, or SAFe certifications.
  • Prior experience with:
  • Banking products
  • Deposits and treasury management
  • Payment networks
  • Digital assets
  • Financial education businesses
  • M&A integration programme experience.
  • Experience working with sponsor banking cores

Location

Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual [salary/hourly rate] for this position is between $52 to $75/per hour. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits:

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [10-15 days of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System]

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Preferred Skills

Program Management
  • Project Management Program Management
  • Project Management


Job details

Job ID 333018

Role Technical Program Manager

Location BERKELEY HTS, New Jersey, US

Job type Direct Hire

Recruiter Prachi

Email [email protected]

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