Program Manager Tech 5

Program Manager Tech 5

BCforward is currently seeking a highly motivated Program Manager remote opportunity.

Title: Program Manager

Location: Remote

Duration: 7 Month (Potential chances for extension)

Anticipated Start Date: ASAP

Please note this is the target date and is subject to change. BCforward will send official notice ahead of a confirmed start date.

Expected Duration: 7 Months (Potential chances for extension)

Job Type: [FULL TIME] (40 HRS WEEKLY)], [CONTRACT], [REMOTE]

Pay Range: $85/hr to $90/hr on W2

Please note that actual compensation may vary within this range due to factors such as location, experience, and job responsibilities, and does not encompass additional non-standard compensation (e.g., benefits, paid time off, per diem, etc.).

Title: Program Manager

Location: Remote

Duration: 7 Months (Potential chances for extension)

Typical Day in the Role

• Purpose of the Team: The purpose of this team is to provide engineering support for efforts that support LENS (law) and DSU (digital crime unit) and CCP.
• Key projects: This role will contribute to supporting their data processing systems team. Supporting data platforms in the security space.

Candidate Requirements

• Disqualifiers: Candidates who have not been a program manager before will not be eligible for the role.
• Best vs. Average: The ideal resume would contain:
• Candidates with data governance and ideally with migration from one platform to another experience
• Experience with ADO
• Program related process development experience
• Microsoft tooling experience
• Self-management experience / initiative
• Power BI's, dashboards and data analytics experience
• Communication Skills / Presentation skills

Technical Program Manager - Compliance and Engineering Coordination (Contingent Staff)

• The Technical Program Manager (TPM) plays a pivotal role in driving execution, coordination, and operational excellence across Corporate External and Legal Affairs' (CELA) engineering compliance and cybersecurity programs. Acting as Scrum Master for the team, the TPM facilitates daily standups, retrospectives, and sprint planning, ensuring clarity of priorities, accountability, and measurable progress. The role requires a solid background in cybersecurity and compliance.
• TPM is responsible for prioritizing security backlogs across multiple CELA engineering teams, driving alignment during sprint planning to ensure that cybersecurity-related work is properly scoped, scheduled, and tracked. This includes maintaining visibility into sprint commitments, proactively identifying dependencies and blockers, and ensuring the timely delivery of compliance and remediation milestones. The TPM partners with engineering leads, DRIs, and program owners across CELA to coordinate activities, track remediation ETAs, manage dashboards, ensure readiness for quarterly compliance and accessibility reviews.
• Additionally, the TPM supports the creation of documentation and reports for monthly compliance business reviews, providing transparency to leadership on progress, risks, and key metrics. The role ensures adherence to process rigor by maintaining proper tracking and traceability in Azure DevOps (ADO) boards and Power BI dashboards, supporting evidence collection, and upholding audit-readiness standards. Operating across technical, legal, and policy domains, the TPM serves as a bridge between multiple teams, driving unified progress toward durable, secure, and compliant engineering practices.

Key Requirements and Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in technical program management, preferably within cybersecurity, compliance, or regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of security controls, risk management, and frameworks such as NIST SP 800-53, NIST AI RMF, or ISO 27001.
• Demonstrated experience managing or supporting compliance programs.
• Proven ability to prioritize and manage security backlogs and drive alignment during sprint planning across multiple engineering teams.
• Hands-on experience facilitating Agile/Scrum ceremonies (standups, retrospectives, sprint reviews, backlog grooming).
• Proficiency with Azure DevOps (ADO) for task management, tracking, and reporting using Power BI.
• Strong organizational and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively across technical and business audiences.
• Ability to translate technical compliance and cybersecurity requirements into actionable engineering work items.
• Experience producing dashboards, reports, and documentation to communicate compliance status, risks, and metrics to leadership.
• Demonstrated commitment to collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.
• A typical day in this role involves facilitating daily standups, reviewing progress on cybersecurity and compliance initiatives, and ensuring sprint priorities remain aligned across multiple CELA engineering teams. The TPM monitors compliance dashboards, updates remediation ETAs, and partners with engineers and DRIs to track closure of compliance action items. TPM coordinates with stakeholders to prepare reports and documentation for business reviews, manage security backlog prioritization, and maintain accuracy in Azure DevOps tracking. Throughout the day, the TPM drives collaboration across the team and teams, proactively addressing risks, dependencies, and opportunities to strengthen CELA's overall compliance and cybersecurity posture.
• The ideal candidate has a strong background in cybersecurity, compliance, and cloud governance, with proven experience managing compliance programs. The ideal candidate excels at prioritizing security backlogs, coordinating Agile/Scrum workflows, and tracking commitments in Azure DevOps (ADO) to ensure accountability and measurable progress. The role requires strong communication, organization, and stakeholder management skills to collaborate effectively across teams. A proactive, detail-oriented mindset and the ability to balance strategic alignment with hands-on delivery are key to success in this role.

Top 3 Hard Skills:

• Azure Devops Agile Tracking as Scrum Master (10+ YOE)
• Data analysis in Data explorer (10+ YOE)
• Reporting in ADO dashboards and Power BI (10+ YOE)

Benefits:

BCforward offers all eligible employees a comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to major medical, HSA, dental, vision, employer-provided group life, voluntary life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and 401k.

About BCforward:

Founded in 1998 on the idea that industry leaders needed a professional service, and workforce management expert, to fuel the development and execution of core business and technology strategies, BCforward is a Black-owned firm providing unique solutions supporting value capture and digital product delivery needs for organizations around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN with an Offshore Development Center in Hyderabad, India, BCforward's 6,000 consultants support more than 225 clients globally.

BCforward champions the power of human potential to help companies transform, accelerate, and scale. Guided by our core values of People-Centric, Optimism, Excellence, Diversity, and Accountability, our professionals have helped our clients achieve their strategic goals for more than 25 years. Our strong culture and clear values have enabled BCforward to become a market leader and best in class place to work.

BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.

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This posting is not an offer of employment. All applicants applying for positions in the United States must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The submission of intentionally false or fraudulent information in response to this posting may render the applicant ineligible for the position. Any subsequent offer of employment will be considered employment at-will regardless of the anticipated assignment duration.

Interested candidates please send resume in Word format Please reference job code 246892 when responding to this ad.

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