Kaygen, Inc.
KAYGEN is an emerging leader in providing top talent for technology-based staffing services. We specialize in providing high-volume contingent staffing, direct hire staffing and project-based solutions to companies worldwide ranging from startups to Fortune 500 and Managed Service Providers (MSP) across a wide variety of industries.
Job Title Program Director
Location Westlake, TX
Duration 6 Months
Key Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end program management for large-scale, multi-year modernization initiatives across Brokerage Recordkeeping Technology, with a focus on Strategic Authorization, Authentication capability and data entitlements (both coarse and fine grained) as well as Alerting and notification platforms for both B2B, B2C and B2B2C clients and customers.
Oversee project planning, execution, and delivery using Agile and hybrid methodologies tying to key measurable outputs that comprise business outcomes
Manage cross-functional teams, including internal stakeholders, external vendors, and business partners.
Serve as a liaison between business users (trading desks, operations, money movement, etc.) and technology teams
Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership, providing executive-level updates, roadmaps, and performance metrics.
Drive alignment across organizations, ensuring prioritization and resource optimization.
Partner with enterprise architects to ensure modernization efforts align with target-state architecture driving integration strategies across legacy and modern platforms, ensuring seamless data flow and service interoperability.
Data Strategy & Governance: ensure compliance with interim and strategic data strategies through tight facilitation and collaboration between business SMEs, technology teams, and data governance councils.
Establish and maintain governance frameworks, risk and dependency management protocols, and change control processes.
Identify, track, and mitigate program risks and critical path dependencies.
Regulatory & Compliance Alignment: Collaborate with legal, risk, and compliance teams to ensure modernization initiatives meet evolving regulatory requirements.
Understand product landscape, capabilities and interaction points within the technology ecosystem, as well as the current and target-state architecture.
Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement across program teams.
Provide leadership and mentorship to project managers, analysts, enablement leads, and delivery leads.
Qualifications
BA or BS degree
10+ years of experience in the software development space, at least 5 as a project manager with extensive technical delivery experience with analysis, development, and QA
Certifications (preferred but not mandatory): PMP, PMI-ACP, or SAFe Program Consultant (SPC).
Experience in the financial services industry with a solid understanding of brokerage preferred
Proven success managing enterprise-wide programs with complex interdependencies and stakeholder landscapes.
Experience with cloud migration, digital transformation, and platform modernization initiatives.
Strong experience with software development methodologies (agile and waterfall)
Experience in leadership/influence and collaboration in a matrix-managed environment, and across multiple and diverse groups
Demonstrated ability to take initiative, drive decisions forward, and persist through ambiguity and obstacles.
Proactive and confident communicator with a strong sense of ownership and follow-through.
Must be able to communicate with various levels in and across the organization, from C-suite level to detailed developer to business SME
Influencing skills beyond organizational boundaries are a must
Benefits
Free Healthcare Insurance
Vision and Dental Insurance
401(k) Retirement Plan
Free Life Insurance
Sick Time Off
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Job Title Program Director
Location Westlake, TX
Duration 6 Months
Key Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end program management for large-scale, multi-year modernization initiatives across Brokerage Recordkeeping Technology, with a focus on Strategic Authorization, Authentication capability and data entitlements (both coarse and fine grained) as well as Alerting and notification platforms for both B2B, B2C and B2B2C clients and customers.
Oversee project planning, execution, and delivery using Agile and hybrid methodologies tying to key measurable outputs that comprise business outcomes
Manage cross-functional teams, including internal stakeholders, external vendors, and business partners.
Serve as a liaison between business users (trading desks, operations, money movement, etc.) and technology teams
Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership, providing executive-level updates, roadmaps, and performance metrics.
Drive alignment across organizations, ensuring prioritization and resource optimization.
Partner with enterprise architects to ensure modernization efforts align with target-state architecture driving integration strategies across legacy and modern platforms, ensuring seamless data flow and service interoperability.
Data Strategy & Governance: ensure compliance with interim and strategic data strategies through tight facilitation and collaboration between business SMEs, technology teams, and data governance councils.
Establish and maintain governance frameworks, risk and dependency management protocols, and change control processes.
Identify, track, and mitigate program risks and critical path dependencies.
Regulatory & Compliance Alignment: Collaborate with legal, risk, and compliance teams to ensure modernization initiatives meet evolving regulatory requirements.
Understand product landscape, capabilities and interaction points within the technology ecosystem, as well as the current and target-state architecture.
Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement across program teams.
Provide leadership and mentorship to project managers, analysts, enablement leads, and delivery leads.
Qualifications
BA or BS degree
10+ years of experience in the software development space, at least 5 as a project manager with extensive technical delivery experience with analysis, development, and QA
Certifications (preferred but not mandatory): PMP, PMI-ACP, or SAFe Program Consultant (SPC).
Experience in the financial services industry with a solid understanding of brokerage preferred
Proven success managing enterprise-wide programs with complex interdependencies and stakeholder landscapes.
Experience with cloud migration, digital transformation, and platform modernization initiatives.
Strong experience with software development methodologies (agile and waterfall)
Experience in leadership/influence and collaboration in a matrix-managed environment, and across multiple and diverse groups
Demonstrated ability to take initiative, drive decisions forward, and persist through ambiguity and obstacles.
Proactive and confident communicator with a strong sense of ownership and follow-through.
Must be able to communicate with various levels in and across the organization, from C-suite level to detailed developer to business SME
Influencing skills beyond organizational boundaries are a must
Benefits
Free Healthcare Insurance
Vision and Dental Insurance
401(k) Retirement Plan
Free Life Insurance
Sick Time Off
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