SR Program Manager

Our excellent client seeks a SR Program Manager with Finance experience for an 18 mo+ HYBRID W2 contract role in Springfield, MA. Must be able to work on our W2. NO AGENCIES.

Duties:

The Senior Program Manager is the central execution leader for the program. This is a hands-on, delivery-focused leadership position that requires daily engagement in execution management, cross-track coordination, governance enforcement, and stakeholder communication. The Senior Program Manager will be the person who makes the delivery model work — translating strategy into daily, weekly, and monthly operating rhythm.

This role is accountable for:

• Owning the integrated program plan across all tracks — schedule, dependencies, milestones, and critical path
• Driving the daily and weekly execution cadence — standups, iteration planning, demos, retrospectives
• Enforcing entry/exit gates between delivery phases — no development starts without readiness criteria being met
• Managing cross-track dependencies and sequencing — ensuring parallel and sequenced tracks do not destabilize each other
• Owning the SteerCo agenda, pre-read, and follow-up — ensuring the steering committee is a decision engine, not a status meeting
• Driving the re-baselining effort — establishing velocity baselines and validating the target delivery date within the first 90 days
• Owning risk, issue, and action management — surfacing problems early, escalating with recommendations, and driving resolution
• Managing the operating rhythm across US-based and India-based teams — including enforcing the guided execution model for offshore delivery
• Partnering with the Business Sponsor (acting Product Owner) to ensure decisions are made, documented, and translated into stable requirements
• Preparing executive-ready reporting — program status, quality metrics, velocity trends, risk dashboards — for delivery leadership and senior stakeholders

Key Responsibilities

Program Execution & Delivery

• Own the integrated program plan across all active and sequenced tracks. Maintain schedule accuracy, dependency mapping, and critical path visibility.
• Drive iteration planning, execution tracking, and completion reviews for each 2-week iteration cycle. Ensure work entering each iteration has met defined readiness criteria.
• Enforce the Structured Iterative delivery model — phases, gates, and change control. Prevent the program from reverting to ad hoc or unstructured execution patterns.
• Lead the re-baselining effort: establish velocity baselines from the first 2–3 iterations, validate the integrated schedule against actual throughput, and recommend date adjustments with supporting data.
• Monitor and manage track sequencing: ensure sequenced tracks do not enter build until predecessor tracks meet defined exit criteria.
• Own change control: ensure all mid-build requirement changes are documented, impact-assessed, and approved before integration into the next iteration.