ISO 20022 Lead Technical Program Manager

Leverage your deep technical expertise and leadership to guide cutting-edge projects, fostering growth and innovation in a dynamic environment.

As a Lead Technical Program Manager in Commerical & Investment Bank, you will drive the successful delivery of complex technology projects and programs that will help reaching business goals across the firm.

Leveraging your deep knowledge of technical principles, practices, and theories is essential for developing innovative solutions, while simultaneously effectively managing resources, budgets, and high-performing teams.

Your strong analytical reasoning and adaptability skills will enable you to navigate through ambiguity and change, ensuring that technology initiatives align with business goals.

With advanced communication and stakeholder management abilities, you will foster productive working relationships and influence decision-making to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.

As a subject matter expert, you will contribute to the development of operational plans and risk management strategies, ensuring the highest quality and professionalism in service delivery.

Job responsibilities


* Lead end-to-end ISO 20022 program management, including planning, execution, and delivery across payment channels, clearing systems, and client integrations


* Drive global ISO transformation roadmap, ensuring alignment with industry timelines (e.g., SWIFT November 2026 migration milestones)


* Coordinate across multiple applications to ensure consistent adoption of ISO standards (e.g., Hybrid Address, structured data)


* Partner with business, operations, and compliance teams to ensure regulatory readiness, auditability, and data integrity


* Define and execute program governance, including steering committees, status reporting, RAID tracking, and executive updates


* Manage cross-channel and cross-region dependencies, ensuring seamless interoperability across domestic and international payment flows


* Identify and mitigate program risks, including regulatory, data quality, and integration risks, with clear remediation strategies


* Manage migration readiness, and cutover planning for large-scale ISO releases across channels and platforms


* Influence senior stakeholders and executive leadership to align on priorities, trade-offs, and delivery commitments


* Promotes reuse-first, AI-assisted practices for program governance and reporting, ensuring human review and alignment to delivery standards


* Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate program planning and risk synthesis (e.g., consolidating inputs into integrated plans, RAID, and executive-ready updates), validating outputs and handling data according to sensitivity requirements

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills


* 5+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in technical program management, leading complex technology projects and programs in a larg...