Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior Program Manager to lead strategic initiatives within the Aetna Transactional Cache (ATC) Program. This role will oversee delivery of large-scale enterprise data modernization efforts, including migration from MarkLogic to MongoDB Atlas on AWS, cloud platform enablement, application modernization, and enterprise data services transformation.

The successful candidate will drive execution across multiple technology and business teams while managing program roadmap, financials, governance, risks, dependencies, and executive communications. This role requires strong leadership, technical acumen, and the ability to coordinate complex programs with significant business impact.

Key Responsibilities

Program Leadership & Delivery

• Lead end-to-end delivery of ATC initiatives, including MarkLogic-to-MongoDB migrations, cloud enablement, data platform modernization, and application onboarding.

• Manage integrated program plans, milestones, schedules, dependencies, and critical path activities.

• Coordinate delivery across engineering, architecture, infrastructure, DevOps, security, data, and business teams.

• Drive successful execution of consumer cutovers, migration waves, platform readiness, and production deployments.

Governance & Stakeholder Management

• Facilitate executive governance forums, steering committees, L2/L3 reviews, and leadership updates.

• Prepare executive-ready program status reports, dashboards, presentations, decision papers, and meeting materials.

• Ensure alignment among business sponsors, product owners, architecture teams, and delivery organizations.

• Escalate critical issues and drive timely resolution of risks and blockers.

Financial & Resource Management

• Manage multi-million-dollar program budgets, forecasts, funding requests, and resource planning activities.

• Track financial performance, budget variances, vendor spend, and capacity utilization.

• Partner with finance and leadership teams to support annual planning, investment decisions, and business case development.

• Identify opportunities for cost optimization and operational efficiencies.

Risk & Dependency Management

• Establish and maintain program risk, issue, and dependency management processes.

• Drive mitigation planning and resolution of cross-functional program challenges.

• Ensure visibility of key program risks through leadership reporting and governance reviews.

Agile Delivery & PMO Excellence

• Apply Agile, Scrum, and hybrid delivery methodologies across multiple workstreams.

• Implement best practices for program management, reporting, metrics, and governance.

• Track key performance indicators, delivery metrics, and value realization.

• Support roadmap planning and prioritization activities.

Technical & Strategic Alignment

• Partner with architects and engineering leaders to understand technical solutions and migration strategies.

• Collaborate on cloud adoption, modernization roadmaps, API strategies, and data platform initiatives.

• Contribute to strategic planning for enterprise data architecture and future-state capabilities.