[Hiring] Senior Project Manager @TEKsystems

Role Description

Seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead and support strategic initiatives associated with mergers and acquisitions (M&A), core banking system integration, and enterprise technology transformation. The ideal candidate will have significant experience managing complex projects within the banking or financial services industry, with a strong preference for candidates who have participated in a bank merger, acquisition, conversion, or core banking integration.

This individual will be responsible for coordinating cross-functional workstreams spanning technology, operations, retail and commercial banking, digital channels, data, risk, compliance, finance, and third-party vendors. The Project Manager will play a critical role in ensuring that M&A integration activities are carefully planned, dependencies are identified and managed, risks are proactively addressed, and technology and operational readiness activities remain aligned with key transaction and conversion milestones.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of project/program management experience, preferably within banking, financial services, fintech, or another highly regulated environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading large, complex, cross-functional technology and business transformation projects.
• Experience supporting or leading a financial institution merger, acquisition, bank conversion, or major systems integration.
• Strong understanding of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, resource, risk, issue, dependency, and change management.
• Experience coordinating projects involving multiple technology platforms, business teams, and third-party vendors.
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects with high organizational visibility and aggressive timelines.
• Strong executive communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work effectively across both technical and non-technical teams.
• Excellent facilitation, negotiation, problem-solving, and organizational skills.

Requirements

• Lead complex projects and workstreams associated with bank mergers, acquisitions, integrations, and system conversions.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans covering pre-conversion, conversion, cutover, and post-conversion stabilization activities.
• Coordinate activities across multiple business and technology workstreams to ensure M&A integration objectives and deadlines are achieved.
• Establish project governance, reporting cadence, decision-making processes, escalation procedures, and executive-level status reporting.
• Manage critical milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and action items throughout the integration lifecycle.
• Facilitate cross-functional meetings and ensure clear ownership and accountability for project deliverables.
• Lead or coordinate activities related to the integration and/or conversion of core banking platforms and associated applications.
• Partner with technology and business teams to manage dependencies between the core banking platform and surrounding systems.
• Coordinate planning for data conversion, interface integration, system configuration, testing, reconciliation, cutover, and production readiness.
• Ensure downstream and upstream system dependencies are documented and incorporated into the overall integration plan.
• Support development of detailed cutover and contingency plans for major conversion events.
• Partner with business, technology, QA, and vendor teams to ensure appropriate testing strategies are established.
• Coordinate project dependencies related to system integration testing, regression testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), and production readiness.
• Monitor defect resolution and critical issues affecting conversion readiness.
• Facilitate go/no-go readiness assessments and ensure outstanding risks and dependencies are clearly communicated to leadership.
• Coordinate post-conversion stabilization activities and track outstanding issues through resolution.
• Identify and proactively manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and resource constraints.
• Maintain RAID logs and ensure critical items have appropriate owners and mitigation plans.
• Provide concise, executive-level project reporting covering project health, schedule, scope, budget, risks, decisions, and upcoming milestones.
• Escalate critical issues requiring leadership intervention or cross-functional decision-making.
• Partner closely with Risk, Compliance, Information Security, Legal, Audit, and Regulatory teams to ensure project requirements are appropriately incorporated.
• Maintain strong documentation and project controls appropriate for a highly regulated banking environment.
• Serve as a key liaison between business stakeholders, technology teams, executive leadership, vendors, and implementation partners.
• Manage relationships with core banking and technology vendors involved in integration or conversion activities.
• Facilitate discussions across teams with competing priorities and drive decisions necessary to maintain project momentum.
• Translate technical issues and dependencies into clear business impacts for leadership.
• Ensure vendor deliverables, milestones, and dependencies remain aligned with the bank's overall integration plan.

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Company Description

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership.