Senior Program Manager – Banking Payments & Blockchain
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Client: Bank of America (BOA)
Location: Pennington, NJ / Charlotte, NC (Local or Nearby; Hybrid)
Rate: $75/hr W2
Experience: 12+ Years
Job Summary
Seeking a Senior Program Manager with strong Banking, Payments, and Blockchain/DLT experience to lead enterprise-scale payment modernization and digital asset initiatives from planning through production implementation.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end Banking Payments and Blockchain/DLT programs, including POCs, implementation, integrations, testing, and production rollout.
- Manage program roadmaps, budgets, resources, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and executive reporting.
- Drive payment modernization initiatives involving ACH, Wire Transfers, RTP, FedNow, SWIFT, ISO 20022, clearing, settlement, and reconciliation.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams across Business, Product, Engineering, Architecture, Cybersecurity, Risk, Compliance, Operations, QA, and vendors.
- Oversee blockchain use cases involving smart contracts, tokenized assets, distributed settlement, and digital payments.
- Manage APIs, microservices, cloud integrations, security, identity, privacy, and legacy banking system integration.
- Drive Agile/SAFe delivery, PI planning, release planning, steering committees, and program governance.
Required Qualifications
- 12+ years of IT experience with strong Program/Technical Program Management expertise.
- Extensive Banking/Financial Services and Payments modernization experience.
- Working knowledge of ACH, Wire, RTP, FedNow, SWIFT, and ISO 20022.
- Hands-on program delivery experience involving Blockchain/DLT or Digital Assets.
- Understanding of blockchain architecture, smart contracts, distributed transactions, APIs, microservices, cloud, security, and data privacy.
- Strong experience in enterprise integrations, Agile/SAFe, SDLC, risk management, and vendor management.
- Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- PMP, PgMP, SAFe, or Scrum certification.
- Tier-1 banking experience and regulated, high-volume transaction platforms. xzgxqkn
- Exposure to AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Understanding of Java/Spring Boot, REST APIs, databases, CI/CD, and enterprise integration patterns.
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