Senior IT Program Manager

Lake Forest, IL

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Type: Contract

Reference ID: 32046512

Date Posted: 03/25/2026



Job Title: Senior IT Program Manager 
Location-Type: Lake Forest, IL (3 days onsite per week)
Start Date Is: 2 weeks from offer 
Duration: 9 month contract (extension likely)


Job Description:

Financial management and tracking:

  • Manage program budget, forecasts, and financial reporting across all workstreams
  • Track spend against plan and provide variance analysis
  • Partner with finance and leadership on prioritization decisions and investment tradeoffs

Change Management

  • Partner with business/technical teams to ensure smooth transition of upgraded systems into production support
  • Coordinate change management, documentation updates, and operational training where required

Governance:

  • Develop and maintain the technical debt remediation roadmap and prioritize initiatives based on risk and business impact
  • Coordinate dependencies with other enterprise programs and modernization initiatives
  • Maintain a centralized inventory of technical debt items and track remediation progress across the enterprise
  • Lead program oversight across multiple technical debt remediation projects running in parallel
  • Create and maintain program-level status reporting, executive presentations, dashboards, and portfolio health updates
  • Provide clear visibility into risks, dependencies, timelines, recommendations, and red/yellow/green status across the program
  • Drive weekly project reviews, daily/weekly standups, status meetings, and working sessions
  • Coordinate across infrastructure, application, IT operations, and vendor/MSP teams to keep workstreams aligned
  • Track program milestones, resource needs, dependencies, and escalation items
  • Partner with senior leadership and executive sponsors to communicate progress, risks, and decisions needed
  • Bring structure and governance to a fast-evolving program and establish repeatable operating cadence
  • Ensure appropriate testing, validation, operational readiness, and transition considerations are accounted for across initiatives

Requirements:
  • 8 years of program/project management experience, with demonstrated experience leading large, complex enterprise programs
  • Proven success managing programs and/or portfolios with multiple concurrent technical projects
  • Experience supporting enterprise-scale IT modernization efforts, technical debt remediation programs, or similar
  • Ability to work effectively with both technical teams and business/executive stakeholders
  • Strong executive presence and ability to build high-quality presentations and program updates for leadership
  • Technical fluency to understand and communicate around application upgrades, infrastructure refreshes, server-related work, testing, validation, and operational risk
  • Experience managing risks, dependencies, resource planning, and program governance at scale. 
  • Familiarity with IT operations / service management environments and managed service provider coordination
  • Overseeing 20 projects simultaneously
  • Managed an IT budget of $5M

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