Senior Technical Program Manager - Client Implementation & Enablement
Randstad Digital Americas · Omaha, NE · 1 wk ago
Information Technology$70–$93.5/hrContract
On-site in Omaha; contract role in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end technical onboarding programs for strategic clients: define scope, milestones, success criteria, and acceptance for each engagement.
- Build and run repeatable onboarding frameworks, playbooks, templates, and automation to reduce cycle time and operational effort.
- Manage technical integration projects (APIs, data migrations, connectors, batch/real-time flows) including architecture handoffs, environment provisioning, and release coordination.
- Serve as the senior client-facing program lead: run kickoff, status reviews, steering committees, and executive communications; set expectations and escalate proactively.
- Coordinate cross-functional delivery across engineering, product, security, compliance, QA, operations, professional services, and third-party vendors.
- Identify, track, and resolve technical and commercial dependencies and risks (data mapping, security reviews, legal/contract milestones, implementation windows).
- Drive readiness for go-live and early production support: runbooks, run/rollback plans, monitoring, alerts, SLA handoffs to operations and client success.
- Measure and improve onboarding outcomes: time to value, launch success rate, change request frequency, customer satisfaction (NPS/CSAT), and operational cost.
- Mentor and enable implementation teams to adopt best practices (agile delivery, backlog hygiene, release checklists) and continuously improve throughput.
- Partner with product and GTM teams to influence the product roadmap based on onboarding learnings and recurring client requirements.
Requirements
- 7+ years of program or project management experience with at least 3 years leading technical, client-facing onboarding or implementation programs.
- Demonstrated track record delivering complex integrations (APIs, ETL/data migrations, SSO, payment/transaction systems) across multiple engineering teams.
- Strong client-facing skills with the ability to present to senior executives, set expectations, and drive decisions.
- Technical fluency: cloud architectures (AWS/Azure/GCP), REST APIs, authentication/authorization patterns, data mapping/transformation concepts, and CI/CD.
- Proven experience managing multi-party dependencies (internal teams, vendors, client IT) and negotiating trade-offs under time pressure.
- Experience with delivery and collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence, Salesforce or equivalent) and with program artifacts (roadmaps, RAID logs, decision logs).
- Excellent written and verbal communication, organization, and stakeholder management skills.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
- Experience in regulated industries (financial services, payments, healthcare) and familiarity with compliance reviews (PCI, SOC, KYC/AML).
- Prior experience building onboarding playbooks, automation for provisioning, or data validation tools.
- Certifications such as PMP, SAFe, or Certified ScrumMaster.
Skills
- AWS, Azure, GCP
- APIs, REST APIs, CI/CD, ETL, data mapping, data validation
- Jira, Confluence, Salesforce, RAID logs
- ScrumMaster, PMP, Certified ScrumMaster
- Client onboarding, agile delivery, production support, professional services
- Strong client-facing skills, executive communications, stakeholder management
- Risk-based decision making, influence without authority, mentoring
- Continuous improvement, metrics, throughput, cycle time
- Technical fluency, architecture, automation, compliance reviews
Pay
$70.00 - $93.50 per hour
Schedule
9 AM to 5 PM
Benefits
- Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance
- AD&D and life insurance offerings
- Short-term disability
- 401K plan (all benefits based on eligibility)