Technical Program Manager
First seen by Alion on Sep 22, 2026.
Job Description :
This role requires solid familiarity with payment-network delivery and the ability to lead programs in environments where transaction integrity, resiliency, interoperability, and operational control are critical.
Areas of Experience :
- Payment switching and transaction-routing platforms
- Authorization and message-processing flows
- Clearing and post-transaction processing
- ISO 8583 and ISO 20022 standards
- High-availability platform delivery and operational resilience
- Integration-heavy distributed systems and runtime dependency management
- Release coordination in complex, high-scale payment environments
- Cross-functional delivery across engineering, operations, testing, and business teams
Qualifications :
- 6+ years of progressive experience in technical program management, engineering program leadership, or large-scale technology delivery.
- 5+ years of experience leading complex cross-functional programs in payments, transaction processing, network technology, or similarly high-scale regulated environments.
- Proven track record managing large programs or portfolios with significant dependencies, senior stakeholder visibility, and operational impact.
- Strong experience establishing and running intake processes, delivery governance, and cross-team planning mechanisms.
- Demonstrated experience leading Scrum of Scrums or equivalent multi-team execution forums in complex delivery organizations.
- Strong understanding of software delivery lifecycles, Agile execution models, release planning, and dependency management.
- Ability to work effectively with product, architecture, engineering, testing, and operations teams to drive aligned execution.
- Strong judgment in managing tradeoffs across scope, timelines, technical constraints, and organizational capacity.
- Strong communication skills, including concise status reporting, escalation management, and decision support for leadership.
- Bachelors degree in engineering, computer science, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Skills
Project Management, Agile, Scrum, SDLC, Transaction Processing System, Project Methodologies