At Early Warning, we’ve powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.
Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.
Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.
Overall Purpose
The Sr. Technology Transformation Program Director is accountable for planning, executing, and managing large-scale business transformation initiatives across the technology organization. This role oversees the Technology organization's transformation programs to help grow the business line, support winning performance, and executional discipline across the function. The role requires strong cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder management, and leadership to ensure the success of transformation efforts. This role may have a specialized area of focus, including analytics or financials.
Essential Functions
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Implements the Transformation Change across the technology organization by managing the Enterprise Transformation Agenda (Development, Delivery, Governance, Financial Maturity).
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Drives the implementation of large-scale transformation initiatives by establishing clear goals, timelines, and metrics to measure success. Partners with leaders across the organization to ensure full delivery of value from design to execution, fostering organization-wide buy-in and engagement.
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Coordinates Functional Transformation Efforts. Acts as a central leader in coordinating cross-functional risk transformation projects, working closely with function heads to ensure alignment, remove barriers, etc.
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Develops and executes roadmaps for transformation initiatives, including timelines, milestones, and managing objective and key results (OKRs), driving accountability through transparency and visibility.
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Oversees the transformation agenda ensuring disciplined execution and operational efficiency, ensuring initiatives are delivered on time in accordance with the organization's business priorities.
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Collaborates with stakeholders to enhance visibility into technology initiatives and ensure alignment with business objectives.
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Supports the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.
Area of Focus: Analytics
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Manages the implementation of new technologies and systems to enhance analytical operations.
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Defines and maintains the transformation roadmap specific to analytics, aligning with the overall technology transformation goals.
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Builds and maintains dashboards and reports tailored to executive, functional, and team level audiences.
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Enables real time visibility into transformation progress, risks, and blockers.
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Drives insight generation for course correction at the operational level.
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Partners with internal stakeholders to align on reporting needs and success measures.
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Ensures data accuracy, consistency, and completeness across systems.
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Provides insight into the progress and impact of technology transformation.
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Partners with tech executives and business stakeholders to gather reporting requirements and deliver actionable insights.
The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow instructions and perform other related duties as assigned by their supervisor.
Minimum Qualifications
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Education and experience typically obtained through completion of a bachelor’s degree in business, Program Management and/or Computer Science or related field.
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15 years of experience in program management, management consulting, or corporate strategy and development.
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Proven track record of successfully managing muti-functional, large-scale projects across an enterprise.
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Ability to influence and drive enterprise-wide strategic decisions with significant impact to the company.
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Detail oriented and able to create insights for the company's leadership.
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Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, able to deal effectively with ambiguity and change.
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Highly engaged, self-starter with excellent communication skills and the ability to balance achieving business results, fostering collaboration, and influencing business strategies.
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Extensive experience in risk management, data governance and financial acumen.
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Deep understanding of financial services, payments, fraud and risk management, analytics, and technology sectors.
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Highly engaged, self-starter with excellent communication skills and the ability to balance achieving business results, fostering collaboration, and influencing business strategies.
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Background and drug screen.
Preferred Qualifications
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Additional higher-level education such as an MBA.
Physical Requirements
Working conditions consist of a normal office environment. Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours. Work may require occasional standing, walking, kneeling, and reaching. Must be able to lift 10 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently. Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers. Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers. Employees must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation.
Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States at the date of hire.
The base pay scale for this position in:
New York, NY in USD per year is: $200,000 - $240,000.
Additionally, candidates are eligible for a discretionary incentive plan and benefits.
This pay scale is subject to change and is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific candidate, which is always dependent on legitimate factors considered at the time of job offer. Early Warning Services takes into consideration a variety of factors when determining a competitive salary offer, including, but not limited to, the job scope, market rates and geographic location of a position, candidate’s education, experience, training, and specialized skills or certification(s) in relation to the job requirements and compared with internal equity (peers). The business actively supports and reviews wage equity to ensure that pay decisions are not based on gender, race, national origin, or any other protected classes.
Some of the Ways We Prioritize Your Health and Happiness
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Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
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401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
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Paid Time Off – Unlimited Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.
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12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
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Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.
And SO much more! We continue to enhance our program, so be sure to check our Benefits page here for the latest. Our team can share more during the interview process!
Early Warning Services, LLC (“Early Warning”) considers for employment, hires, retains and promotes qualified candidates on the basis of ability, potential, and valid qualifications without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our employees.
Early Warning Services LLC is a proud participant in E-Verify, a federal program to help ensure a legal and authorized workforce. As part of our hiring process, we electronically verify the employment eligibility of all new hires through E-Verify. For more information on your rights and responsibilities under E-Verify please visit Home | E-Verify.
What We Do
For almost 3 decades, our identity, authentication and payment solutions have empowered financial institutions to make decisions, make payments & prevent fraud.
Early Warning has been a leader in technology that helps protect and advance the financial system. We serve a diverse network of approximately 2,500 financial institutions, government entities and payment companies. Our product solutions enable real-time funds availability for a variety of payment types through our payments network.
