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We serve private equity, private credit, hedge funds, endowments, and others with integrated technology, specialized expertise, and scalable operations.\nOur proprietary platform connects data, workflows, and operations across the investment lifecycle, delivering the automation, transparency, and insights clients need to operate efficiently and grow with confidence. Combined with deep expertise across fund accounting, middle office, investor services, regulatory reporting, tax, risk, and front-office solutions, we help clients navigate complexity at scale.\nMore than 2,400 professionals across 14 global offices deliver the expertise, responsiveness, and consistency that have made HSFT a trusted partner to alternative asset managers worldwide.\nAt HSFT, we are committed to helping employees build meaningful, long-term careers through structured development programs, leadership opportunities, and clear paths for growth. Guided by our core values of Relationships, Support, Innovation, and Expertise, we foster a collaborative environment where people are empowered to learn, contribute, and succeed.\nWe offer flexible working arrangements, comprehensive health and well-being benefits, and a culture that invests in our people because they are the foundation of our success.\nFounded in 2008 as HedgeServ, HSFT is recognized as a leading provider of alternative asset services, earning industry recognition across technology, accounting, client service, investor services, and regulatory expertise.\nDepartment Overview\nThe Global Technology team provides the governance and coordination required to deliver HS Financial Technologies’ strategic technology priorities across Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, Cloud, Information Security, Application Support, Data, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and business functions.\nThe team leads technology intake, portfolio analysis and prioritization support, program planning, dependency management, delivery governance, and executive reporting across cloud and infrastructure modernization, cybersecurity, operational resilience, data, automation, artificial intelligence, enterprise platforms, and technical debt reduction.\nRole Overview\nThe Director, IT Program and Project Management will lead the planning, governance, and delivery of complex, cross-functional initiatives across the Global Technology organization. The role will translate strategic priorities into clearly defined programs, roadmaps, and delivery plans, maintain an integrated view of the Technology portfolio, support informed prioritization and sequencing decisions, and establish clear ownership and accountability for outcomes.\nThis is an active leadership role rather than a traditional administrative PMO position. The Director will shape initiatives, strengthen delivery plans, identify emerging risks, resolve cross-team barriers, and provide senior leadership with concise, decision-ready information.\nThe successful candidate will be comfortable moving between strategy and execution, creating structure in complex environments, and building alignment among teams with different priorities and perspectives.\nKey Responsibilities\nTechnology Program Leadership\nLead complex, cross-functional technology programs from initiation through implementation, stabilization, and transition into sustainable operational ownership.\nEstablish clear objectives, scope, outcomes, milestones, governance, decision rights, ownership, and measures of success.\nTranslate strategic priorities into practical delivery plans, coordinating technology teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and geographically distributed contributors.\nPartner with technical specialists to address architecture, delivery constraints, risks, testing, release, cutover, rollback, and operational readiness.\nPortfolio Planning and Delivery Governance\nLead Technology portfolio intake, planning, and delivery governance, giving senior leadership the analysis and recommendations needed to prioritize and sequence initiatives.\nMaintain an integrated portfolio view covering strategic alignment, outcomes, ownership, milestones, capacity, cost, risk, dependencies, and delivery status.\nEstablish proportionate standards for initiative definition, business justification, technical assessment, planning, approval, delivery, change control, and closure.\nIdentify cross-team dependencies, capacity constraints, delivery conflicts, and emerging risks, working with accountable leaders to resolve or escalate them.\nCoordinate cross-functional risk, resilience, audit, and assurance activities where program leadership is required, including disaster-recovery testing, infrastructure migrations, remediation tracking, and lessons learned.\nEnsure 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estimates, financial impacts, and cross-functional technology investments.\nTeam Leadership\nLead and develop Global Technology program and project management professionals, establishing clear roles, objectives, decision boundaries, and development opportunities.\nAllocate program management resources according to organizational priorities and initiative complexity, supported by effective review, reporting, and escalation practices.\nBuild a scalable program management capability that combines consistent governance with practical, outcome-focused delivery.\nSupport recruitment, onboarding, succession planning, cross-training, and knowledge transfer, while fostering accountability, constructive challenge, and diverse perspectives.\nRequired Qualifications\nWe recognize that relevant capabilities can be developed through different career paths, including technology delivery, consulting, operations, engineering, project leadership, and portfolio management.\nSignificant experience leading complex, cross-functional technology programs involving multiple teams, senior stakeholders, vendors, and geographic locations.\nExperience translating strategic priorities into clearly defined programs, integrated plans, roadmaps, milestones, and measurable outcomes.\nExperience managing technology portfolio-governance processes, including project intake, initiative assessment, resource-capacity analysis, roadmap planning, prioritization recommendations, and executive decision support.\nExperience managing complex dependencies, delivery risks, resource constraints, budgets, commercial considerations, and changes to scope or schedule.\nAbility to maintain an integrated view of multiple initiatives and assess delivery progress using evidence, outcomes, milestones, risks, and delivery data.\nBroad understanding of enterprise technology environments and the ability to work effectively with engineers, architects, security specialists, operational teams, business stakeholders, and other 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