Program Manager - Engineering Leader (Asset Management)

Responsibilities

What Youll Do

Were looking for a Program Manager to drive delivery excellence across our Asset Management product family. In this role, youll ensure delivery success by aligning strategy, engineering capacity, and business priorities. Youll partner closely with product, engineering, and business teams to develop delivery plans, lead risks, and complete roadmaps that advance our modernization journey.

As a formal leader, youll lead a team and champion a culture of continuous learning and innovation. You will promote customer-centric product development and help build consistent delivery practices across the organization.

Youll Have The Opportunity To

People Leadership

• Lead and develop a team with diverse technical and operational strengths (3–5 direct, 30–50 indirect reports).
• Drive performance management, mentoring, succession planning, and capability building.
• Ensure operational stability, workforce planning, and resource continuity.
• Build an accountable, high‑performance, outcome‑focused culture.

• Own delivery of key initiatives including platform modernization, cloud migration, and security transformation.
• Lead delivery schedules, SLAs, operational metrics, and cross‑team execution.
• Manage planning, execution, monitoring, and risk across multiple programs.
• Enhance Agile/SAFe practices, including PI planning.

• Oversee daily SOD/EOD cycles supporting frontline and support systems.
• Ensure seamless night‑cycle operations and proactively resolve batch issues.
• Coordinate with system owners, vendors, and cross‑functional teams to maintain data accuracy and SLAs.
• Strengthen runbooks, controls, and continuity processes.

• Provide leadership for tech teams supporting Investment Operations (Middle & Back Office).
• Demonstrate understanding of trade lifecycle, securities data, and downstream reporting.
• Offer architectural oversight for AWS‑based solutions (no hands‑on required).
• Collaborate globally on upgrades, integrations, and operational improvements.

• Partner with Directors and ADs across Technology and Operations.
• Lead strategic discussions on roadmaps, delivery expectations, and risk mitigation.
• Lead vendor governance for operational and delivery outcomes.
• Support BU and Pune‑level initiatives, including org change and communication.

As Principal continues to modernize its systems, this role will offer you a great opportunity to build solutions that will directly impact our long-term strategy and tech stack, all while ensuring that our products are robust, scalable, and secure!

Operating at the intersection of financial services and technology, Principal builds financial tools that help our customers live better lives. We take pride in being a purpose-led firm, motivated by our mission to make financial security accessible to all. Our mission, integrity, and customer focus have made us a trusted leader for more than 140 years.

Qualifications

Who You Are

• Bachelors degree - Engineering (preference in a computer science, technology, engineering or math-related field) and 16+ years work experience or equivalent experience
• 16 - 19 years leading software/application development projects with strong delivery ownership with minimum 5+ years leading managers/technical leads.
• Experience leading engineering teams handling both change/new development and operations/support.

Skills That Will Help You Stand Out

• Asset Management domain experience OR Financial Services industry experience
• 15+ years working with Agile/SAFe teams in a software engineering environment
• Proficiency in Middle & Back Office operations, particularly: Securities Data Mastering, Investment Accounting, Portfolio Reconciliation
• Exposure to platforms like BNY Eagle, CRIMS/Charles River, DUCO, etc.
• Familiarity with AWS cloud.
• Ability to influence others without formal authority and work with people at all levels, including external consultants and vendors
• Build and maintain relationships and facilitate teamwork and communication, including being perceived as a leader
• Be results oriented and able to adapt and take care of ambiguous situations and lead expectations

Our Engineering Culture

Through our Agile/Lean DevOps environment dedicated to delivering valuable solutions, weve fostered a culture of innovation and experimentation across our development teams. As a customer-focused organization, we work closely with our end users and product owners to understand and rapidly respond to emerging business needs.

Collaboration is embedded into everything we do – from the products we develop to the quality service we provide. Were driven by the belief that diversity of thought, background, and perspective is critical to creating the best products and experiences for our customers.