Senior Consultant - Technical Program Management - Global Employer Services Technology

About the role

Join the world's leading professional services firm as a Senior, Technical Program Management (TPM) within the GES Technology Group. You will work directly with the Digital Delivery Leader and Product Teams to plan, coordinate, and oversee the engineering plan and schedule for one or more domains, driving dependency management within and across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain integrated engineering schedule for assigned domains including milestones and delivery dates; translate product decisions into detailed schedules, keep current, communicate changes proactively, and serve as authoritative source on schedule status and delivery risk

• Map and track all intra-domain and cross-domain dependencies, facilitate resolution of conflicts to unblock delivery, and represent domain in cross-product planning sessions ensuring visibility of capacity constraints and commitments

• Proactively identify delivery risks across dependencies, resources, scope, and execution; develop and track mitigation plans; escalate unresolved risks to leadership with full context and recommendations; maintain current, actionable risk log

• Partner with Product Owners/Managers to translate scope and priority decisions into engineering delivery plans; prepare and present audience-calibrated status communications ensuring consistent stakeholder understanding of scope, schedule, and risks

• Work with engineering managers to understand capacity and constraints; structure realistic team schedules without directing execution; co-own milestone definitions with clear entry/exit criteria; surface resourcing gaps and capacity constraints to enable staffing decisions

• Develop deep familiarity with assigned domain architecture, team structure, dependencies, release cadence, and risk profile; track scope changes within domain and assess impact on schedule and dependent workstreams

Qualifications

• Ability to perform job responsibilities within a hybrid work model that requires US Tax professionals to co-locate in person 2 - 3 days per week

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, or a related field

• 3+ years in technical/engineering program management in software product environments

• Demonstrated ability to own complex, multi-team engineering schedules with delivery accountability

• Experience managing cross-functional dependencies across multiple teams, product lines, or platforms through integrated plans, milestone tracking, and issue resolution

• Strong SDLC knowledge, including Agile, SAFe, or hybrid methodologies, demonstrated through delivery planning, sprint/release coordination, and execution support

• Proven track record influencing outcomes without direct authority across engineering, product, and leadership

• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available

• Ability to travel 20%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve

• One of the following active accreditations obtained, in process, or willing and able to obtain: Licensed CPA in state of practice/primary office if eligible to sit for the CPA; Licensed Attorney; Enrolled Agent

• Technology Certifications: Certified SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master; Certified SAFe® Agile Software Engineer; Certified SAFe® Agilist; Certified SAFe® Architect; Certified SAFe® DevOps Practitioner; Certified SAFe® Practitioner; Certified SAFe® Scrum Master

• Familiarity with Jira, Azure DevOps, or equivalent program health tools

• PMP or SAFe Agilist certification

• Awareness of SOC 2 standards / Data Privacy standards (GDPR, etc.)

• Experience of working in a highly regulated technology environment