Staff Technical Program Manager

$189,100 - $317,690/Yr

Disability Solutions - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Seattle, WA

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

We are the FIS Embedded Finance team, and our mission is to enable developers across all verticals to imagine, create and monetize financial products to profoundly transform the way the entire financial industry consumes services. Today, it's difficult for many businesses to build the financial products they imagine. Whether that's launching a new credit or debit card, a savings account, a lending business, or anything else - there are barriers in the way that require excessive time and effort. We make it trivially easy for businesses to compliantly offer financial products, and innovate on their key differentiators rather than spend all their time building and maintaining financial infrastructure. We are looking for a Staff Technical Program Manager to help us build a brand-new financial technology platform for the future. We are looking for a self-motivated TPM with strong interpersonal skills and experience leading large-scale initiatives. The successful candidate will manage technical projects and workstreams across our organization, deliver new capabilities to developer communities, and drive innovation by working with customers to develop greenfield solutions for Embedded Finance at FIS. Note: We have a hybrid work environment in our Seattle/Bellevue office unless the role or business dictates otherwise.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for driving and delivering multiple complex projects simultaneously.
• Provide project leadership, anticipate bottlenecks, mitigate project risks, quantify the impact of making tradeoffs, and balance business needs against technical constraints.
• Provide technical leadership that gets software applications built, launched, and operated for the long-term.
• Work closely with stakeholders across various product, UX Development, software, strategy, and go-to-market teams to identify and drive innovative solutions that achieve business goals and align with long-term product roadmaps.
• Understand and drive resolution of one-way door and two-way door decisions.
• Manage schedule and delivery risk daily, and drive solutions.
• Status reporting to executive level stakeholders - Resource/capacity management and planning.
• Establish more effective communication and planning amongst teams.
• Fully and completely understand system inter-dependencies and limitations.
• Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.
• Assess and hire new technical talent.
• Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution, and either 5+ years of relevant professional experience or advanced degree such as a masters or PhD.
• Experience in creating and managing complex, cross-team project plans; prior success in driving execution of large-scale project plans with multiple teams in support of business goals.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication, and comfortable presenting in large groups and handling high-pressure communication with senior management.
• Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, asynchronous architectures, and distributed algorithms.

Nice-to-haves

• 10+ years of relevant experience as a Technical Program Manager, engineer, or software architect.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• Experience in designing, implementing, and operating secure architecture and reference architectures in public AWS/Azure/GCP cloud.
• Deep hands-on technical expertise in at least one major area: large scale full stack development, building complex distributed systems, fintech, or enterprise products.
• A proven track record for being detail-oriented with a demonstrated ability to self-motivate and follow-through on projects.
• Able to collect, analyze and present data sets to support project goals and initiatives.
• Strong organizational skills, successful track record of coordinating between multiple project stakeholders, technical program managers, and software development teams.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with a pay range of $189,100.00 - $317,690.00 based on role, level, and location.
• Career development opportunities.
• Hybrid work environment.