Technical Program Manager

About the role

Lead end-to-end delivery of platform engineering initiatives.

Act as a liaison across Product, Engineering, DevOps, and Governance teams, Financial portals / Financial services portal.

Tasks

• Lead program planning and execution for platform engineering initiatives
• Manage dependencies across multiple teams and technology domains
• Monitor KPIs (cycle time, throughput, release predictability)
• Ensure alignment with Northern Trust's strategic technology roadmap
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, reviews)
• Drive Agile maturity and continuous improvement
• Maintain backlog quality and prioritization standards
• Promote best practices for incremental delivery
• Collaborate on environment provisioning and infrastructure delivery
• Coordinate enterprise tool integration and pipeline optimization
• Align platform roadmap with enterprise architecture
• Drive standardization and reusability
• Partner with Security, Compliance, Architecture, and business stakeholders
• Ensure adherence to SDLC, change management, and risk policies
• Maintain regulatory and audit compliance
• Provide executive-level reporting and transparency
• Guide architectural decisions (scalability, reliability, security)

Requirements

• 12+Years
• No Relocation, only Local to Chicago needed
• H1b, GC, USC on C2C
• Banking / Financial Services
• Azure, DevOps, APIs, and automation

Schedule

• Day 1 Onsite

Location

• Chicago, IL