Job Description
Technology Program Lead
Job Number: 26-01522
Job Number: 26-01522
Find your next opportunity in the Financial Services Industry. ECLARO is looking for a Technology Program Lead for our client in White Plains, NY.
ECLARO's client is one of the largest mutual life insurance companies and provides long-term care insurance, mutual funds and retirement-plan services across the US. If you’re up to the challenge, then take a chance at this rewarding opportunity!
Position Overview:
- Seasoned Program Lead with deep expertise in enterprise platforms, AI, and large-scale technology transformations, driving execution, stakeholder alignment, and business outcomes in complex environments.
- Strategic Program Leader with a proven track record of driving execution of large-scale technology, platform, and AI initiatives, aligning senior leaders across diverse business functions to deliver transformational outcomes at scale.
- Navigates complexity and ambiguity to align.
- Motivated Technology Program Lead to join our core enterprise technology team supporting client's Strategic Businesses.
- Reporting to the Head of IT Operations, this role will partner closely with line of business CIOs, technology leaders, and cross-functional teams to drive execution of strategic technology priorities across multiple businesses.
- The role will lead and coordinate complex, cross-business initiatives spanning areas such as AI enablement, data strategy, platform modernization, and operating model transformation.
- The Program Lead will translate strategic priorities into executable plans, establish clear ownership and milestones, proactively manage dependencies and risks, and drive initiatives through to measurable outcomes.
- Operate at the intersection of strategy and execution, connecting senior leadership priorities to the teams responsible for delivery and ensuring commitments translate into action.
- This role requires strong program leadership, technology acumen, executive communication, structured problem solving, and the ability to influence outcomes across a highly matrixed organization.
- Comfortable moving between executive-level conversations and the details necessary to understand why an initiative is, or is not progressing.
- Much of this role's impact will be achieved through influence rather than formal authority.
- Success requires the ability to build alignment, establish shared accountability, navigate competing priorities, and drive commitments to completion without direct reporting authority over the teams executing the work.
Responsibilities:
- Strategic Program Leadership & Execution:
- Drive execution across a matrixed portfolio spanning multiple Strategic Businesses and technology organizations by creating alignment among teams with different priorities, leadership structures, funding models, and delivery accountabilities.
- Translate strategic priorities and technology roadmaps into clear execution plans, milestones, owners, dependencies, decision points, and measurable outcomes.
- Influence outcomes without formal positional authority by establishing clear commitments, building stakeholder alignment, creating transparency around execution, and constructively challenging teams when commitments or outcomes are at risk.
- Establish the operating cadence required to drive programs forward, including leadership reviews, working sessions, milestone reviews, and escalation forums.
- Maintain integrated program plans and provide clear visibility into progress against commitments.
- Proactively identify execution risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and decision gaps that could impact delivery.
- Drive issues to resolution by bringing together the appropriate business, technology, architecture, data, security, finance, and vendor stakeholders.
- Coordinate execution across related workstreams and teams to ensure sequencing, dependencies, and handoffs are actively managed.
- Support strategic initiatives across areas such as AI, data, platform modernization / rationalization, and technology operating model transformation.
- Create clarity in ambiguous situations by structuring problems, defining actions, establishing ownership, and driving decisions.
- Execution Management & Value Realization:
- Define clear program objectives, success measures, KPIs, and expected business and technology outcomes.
- Establish mechanisms to measure whether strategic initiatives are delivering their intended value, not simply completing milestones.
- Track execution against agreed milestones, commitments, outcomes, financial expectations, and key performance indicators.
- Use data and program insights to identify areas requiring leadership attention, intervention, or changes in approach.
- Partner with Finance and initiative leaders to maintain visibility into program financials, investment assumptions, and expected benefits.
- Identify execution trends and recurring barriers across initiatives and recommend changes to improve delivery effectiveness.
- Ensure decisions, actions, risks, dependencies, and commitments are clearly documented and actively managed through resolution.
- Establish and drive shared accountability across workstreams where delivery resources, funding, priorities, and decision rights may span multiple organizations, ensuring commitments remain visible and are actively managed through completion.
- Cross-Business Coordination & Dependency Management:
- Connect initiatives and teams across Strategic Businesses to identify shared dependencies, opportunities, and execution risks.
- Maintain visibility into critical cross-program and cross-business dependencies and ensure owners and resolution plans are established.
- Identify opportunities to leverage shared technology capabilities, platforms, vendor solutions, and delivery approaches across businesses.
- Partner with architecture, engineering, data, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and other enterprise technology teams to remove barriers to execution.
- Coordinate with Product Owners, Program Managers, Engineering Leaders, and other delivery roles without duplicating their day-to-day responsibilities.
- Escalate issues requiring executive intervention with a clear articulation of the problem, impact, options, and recommended action.
- Executive Engagement & Continuous Improvement:
- Serve as a trusted execution partner to Strategic Business CIOs and senior technology leaders.
- Provide leadership with a concise and objective view of what is on track, what is at risk, what decisions are required, and where intervention is needed.
- Translate complex program information, technology considerations, and execution challenges into clear executive-level communications.
- Ensure leadership decisions are translated into actions, owners, and measurable commitments and followed through to completion.
- Leverage approved AI tools to improve program planning, analysis, executive communications, meeting effectiveness, risk identification, and decision support.
- Identify opportunities to automate repetitive program-management activities and shift capacity toward higher-value analysis and execution.
- Continuously improve program execution methods, governance mechanisms, tools, and reporting based on lessons learned and emerging capabilities.
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience leading and executing complex technology programs, preferably within Insurance or Financial Services.
- Demonstrated ability to drive large, cross-functional initiatives from strategy through execution and measurable outcomes.
- Strong understanding of software development, technology platforms, infrastructure, data, cybersecurity, and emerging AI technologies.
- Proven ability to identify and manage complex dependencies, risks, milestones, and competing priorities across a matrixed organization.
- Ability to operate effectively without direct authority over the teams responsible for delivery.
- Excellent PowerPoint and data visualization skills, with demonstrated ability to turn complex information into concise executive-level insights.
- Strong proficiency using AI capabilities and tools such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, Claude, or similar technologies to improve productivity and decision support.
- Strong interest and curiosity in technology innovation, AI, and designing more efficient ways of working.
- Experience with Jira, Microsoft 365, and related program and collaboration tools.
- Product Owner, Business Analyst, engineering, or technology delivery experience is a plus.
- Exceptional communication, structured problem-solving, organization, and stakeholder-management skills.
Pay Rate: $101.81/Hour
If hired, you will enjoy the following ECLARO Benefits:
- 401k Retirement Savings Plan administered by Merrill Lynch
- Commuter Check Pretax Commuter Benefits
- Eligibility to purchase Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance through ECLARO
If interested, you may contact:
Lester Candilado
jan.candilado@eclaro.com
6466800168
Lester Candilado | LinkedIn
Equal Opportunity Employer: ECLARO values diversity and does not discriminate based on Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status, in compliance with all applicable laws.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | New York, NY |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $101.81 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1999 |
| Website | http://www.eclaroit.com |
About Company
Eclaro is a Business and Technology Consulting Firm that connects top talent with opportunities nationwide. We have direct access to Hiring Managers from leading Fortune 1000 organizations in almost every industry segment, with particular expertise in:
• Technology and Business Consulting
• Financial Services and Insurance
• Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences
• Consumer Products, Public Sector, and Utilities
Eclaro provides fully customizable, comprehensive talent acquisition and management of seasoned professionals through a number of business models, including:
• Consulting
• Professional Hiring
• Global Integrated Delivery™
• Managed Services
Eclaro recruits and manages a staff of highly skilled individuals in an array of specialized disciplines enabling our clients to leverage new opportunities, respond to increased and changing demands, and increase their profitability.
Eclaro’s Management Team averages over 25 years of experience in partnering with clients in technical, corporate operations and human capital solutions. We hold ISO 9001:2008 certification and have achieved SOC 2 Type 2 certification in Security, Availability and Confidentiality. Eclaro’s decades of expertise and collaborative practice have proven that The Right People are The Answer.
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