Technical Program Manager- Parallel Testing

We are seeking an experienced Executive Technical Program Manager to lead a critical external parallel-testing program supporting the modernization of a large-scale financial platform. This role will oversee the concurrent operation and validation of legacy and cloud-based platforms, ensuring operational readiness prior to production cutover.

Responsibilities

• Own the external parallel-testing strategy, roadmap, governance, and execution plan.
• Lead cross-functional teams across engineering, infrastructure, operations, testing, risk, and data organizations.
• Coordinate production data refreshes, environment readiness, and testing cycles.
• Drive reconciliation of legacy and target platform results, including defect management and root cause resolution.
• Manage Jira planning, dependencies, RAID logs, and delivery governance.
• Coordinate testing with external participants, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Develop executive-level readiness reporting, dashboards, and go-live recommendations.

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in technical program management, large-scale technology delivery, or enterprise transformation.
• Proven success leading platform migrations, parallel testing, production readiness, or system conversion programs.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, data flows, APIs, databases, and environment management.
• Advanced Jira expertise and experience managing complex cross-functional programs.
• Exceptional executive communication, stakeholder management, and risk escalation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Financial services, capital markets, clearing, settlement, payments, or banking experience.
• Experience with cloud migrations, operational readiness, disaster recovery, and enterprise testing programs.
• Knowledge of Kafka, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and modern data platforms.
• PMP, PgMP, SAFe, ITIL, or cloud certifications.

Key Deliverables

• External parallel-testing roadmap and execution plan
• Data refresh and environment readiness framework
• Reconciliation and defect management process
• Executive dashboards and readiness reporting
• Go-live readiness assessment and recommendation

Ideal Candidate: A hands-on technical program leader who drives execution, resolves complex issues, and can confidently communicate program readiness to executive and board-level stakeholders.

Rate: $85-110/HR