Director, Program Management – Brokerage Modernization
Westlake, TX
Category: Program/Project Management
Industry: Financial Services
Reference ID: JN -122025-104709
Date Posted: 01/09/2026
Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/a7lddb
Description:
Hybrid in Westlake, TX
Our client is a leading financial services organization serving individuals and institutions through a broad set of investment and brokerage solutions. The company operates nationwide with major hubs across the United States and partners with global teams. It emphasizes stability, innovation, and client-centric service within personal investing, workplace investing, institutional services, asset management distribution, enterprise infrastructure, labs, corporate technology, and UX.
We can facilitate w2 and corp-to-corp consultants. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Rate: $55.00 to $75.00/hr. w2
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end program management for large-scale, multi-year modernization initiatives across brokerage recordkeeping technology with a focus on strategic alerting and notification platforms serving B2B, B2C, and B2B2C.
- Oversee project planning, execution, and delivery using Agile and hybrid methodologies tied to measurable outputs and business outcomes.
- Manage cross-functional teams including internal stakeholders, external vendors, and business partners.
- Serve as a liaison between business users such as trading desks, operations, and money movement, and technology teams.
- Advise senior leadership through executive updates, roadmaps, and performance metrics.
- Drive alignment across organizations to support prioritization and resource optimization.
- Partner with enterprise architects to align modernization with target-state architecture and integration strategies across legacy and modern platforms.
- Ensure seamless data flow and service interoperability across platforms.
- Facilitate data strategy and governance compliance in collaboration with business SMEs, technology teams, and data governance councils.
- Establish and maintain governance frameworks, risk and dependency management, and change control processes.
- Identify, track, and mitigate program risks and critical path dependencies.
- Collaborate with legal, risk, and compliance teams to meet evolving regulatory requirements.
- Understand product landscapes, capabilities, interaction points, and current and target-state architecture.
- Foster collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement across program teams.
- Provide leadership and mentorship to project managers, analysts, enablement leads, and delivery leads.
Experience Requirements:
Experience Requirements
- 10+ years in software development with at least 5 years as a project or program manager delivering across analysis, development, and QA.
- Proven success leading enterprise-wide programs with complex interdependencies and stakeholders.
- Experience with cloud migration, digital transformation, and platform modernization.
- Strong background with Agile and waterfall methodologies.
- Experience influencing and collaborating in matrix-managed environments and across diverse groups.
- Demonstrated ability to take initiative, drive decisions, and navigate ambiguity.
- Proactive and confident communication with strong ownership and follow-through.
- Ability to communicate from C-suite to developers and business SMEs.
- Influencing skills that extend beyond organizational boundaries.
- Financial services experience with understanding of brokerage preferred.
- Prior experience with the organization’s environment preferred.
- Certifications such as PMP, PMI-ACP, or SAFe Program Consultant preferred.
Education Requirements:
Education Requirements
- BA or BS degree.
- PMP certification preferred.
- PMI-ACP certification preferred.
- SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) certification preferred.
W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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