Program Manager

Rockville, MD


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Type: Contract

Category: Program/Project Management

Industry: Financial Services

Reference ID: JN -032026-106206

Date Posted: 03/30/2026

Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/1taORD


Description:

Hybrid 3 days onsite in Rockville, MD

 

Our client seeks a Program Manager to drive strategy, governance, and execution across a technology portfolio in the financial domain. The role will coordinate program-level engagement, create clear narratives and artifacts, and maintain comprehensive health and status monitoring across multiple projects. The manager will support financials, vendor management, and collaboration infrastructure while ensuring roadmap integrity and CxO-ready reporting. The environment values adaptability, hands-on tool usage, and strong communication.

 

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: $80.00 to $90.00/hr. w2

 


Responsibilities:
  • Help frame program strategy aligned to organizational goals and objectives, including measurement via OKRs and KPIs.
  • Maintain program governance structure and mechanisms for steering, decision-making, and escalation.
  • Coordinate program conversations at the right level and cadence, and publish notes and action items.
  • Own the program narrative and synthesize details into high-impact artifacts tuned to audience and purpose.
  • Enable comprehensive program health and status monitoring, aggregating key results from multiple projects across the enterprise.
  • Ensure roadmap and schedule integrity, manage business critical milestones and CxO-level reporting, and resolve items near or past due.
  • Support capital planning, budgeting, forecasting, variance tracking, and reporting across labor, cloud, vendor, software license, and other costs; coordinate setup of project codes.
  • Facilitate risk, issue, change, dependency, and critical decisions management.
  • Drive the end-to-end business case process including pipeline management, template utilization, incremental dates for monthly reviews, stakeholder touchpoints, and approval forums.
  • Support third-party due diligence, selection, contract execution, and oversight.
  • Organize and maintain collaboration and knowledge/work management infrastructure using tools such as Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Teams, and Miro.
  • Provide administrative and logistical support including roster and cost center management, meeting scheduling, calendar management, conference planning, and distribution list maintenance.

Experience Requirements:
  • 5+ years of proven experience in technology portfolio, program, or project management.
  • 3+ years of experience with agile frameworks such as Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, or Kanban.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence.
  • Strong analysis, synthesis, and communication skills with consistent delivery of high quality work product.
  • Ability to navigate between big picture and detail, abstractions and specifics.
  • Adaptable and independent in a hybrid environment without a central PMO.
  • Hands-on experience with collaboration and analytics tools: Confluence, SharePoint, Jira, MS Dynamics, Excel, Power BI, Miro, Zoom, and Teams.
  • Domain experience in financial services, big data, data science, advanced analytics, AI, ML, or LLMs (preferred).

Education Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree, preferably with a STEM or Finance element.
  • SAFe or Scrum-related certification (preferred).

Recruitment Transparency Notice
 
Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening and hiring process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team (noreply@eliassen.com, 781-808-2924) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group’s use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.
 

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

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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About Eliassen Group:
 
Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients’ capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.
 
Eliassen is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and all employment decisions are based on merit, performance, and business needs. Eliassen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual preference or orientation, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), marital status, creed, religion, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, age, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, prohibited criminal record inquiries of applicants and employees, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.
 
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