The IT Program Manager will ensure the bank executes its technology and transformation investments with discipline, transparency, and regulatory confidence. As the scale and complexity of technology change increases, The IT Program Manager will connect strategy, risk governance, and delivery execution. The IT Program Manager ensures that technology initiatives are properly vetted through intake, prioritized within capacity constraints, governed in line with risk appetite, and executed predictably to deliver business outcomes while meeting OCC and FFIEC expectations.
This role is embedded within the Technology PMO and focuses on technology, data, digital, infrastructure, and regulatory-driven change. The role partners closely with CIO leadership, Enterprise Risk Management, Architecture, Information Security, and Compliance to ensure technology initiatives meet internal policy, regulatory, and supervisory expectations.
Primary Business Outcomes
- Clear, auditable linkage between strategy, funding, capacity, and execution
- Reduced regulatory and delivery risk through early risk identification and control alignment
- Improved executive decision quality and cycle time for technology investments
- Predictable delivery of large-scale technology and regulatory initiatives
- Sustained improvement in PMO maturity, governance rigor, and transparency
- Design and operate a single intake and stage-gated governance model for technology initiatives.
- Ensure all initiatives are classified, risk-tiered, and routed appropriately before funding and execution.
- Define and enforce decision rights, escalation paths, and governance cadences across technology forums.
- Ensure governance rigor is proportionate to regulatory risk, complexity, and materiality.
- Maintain executive-ready governance artifacts and audit-ready documentation.
- Lead enterprise-critical technology programs spanning multiple platforms and lines of business.
- Translate strategic and regulatory objectives into integrated program roadmaps and milestones.
- Manage cross-program dependencies, sequencing, and capacity constraints.
- Ensure clear executive sponsorship, accountability, and benefits realization.
- Provide transparent reporting of progress, risks, and trade-offs to senior leadership.
- Embed risk, compliance, and control considerations into intake, planning, and execution.
- Ensure alignment with FFIEC IT Examination Handbook domains, including governance, change management, and third-party risk.
- Support OCC expectations for strong management oversight, documentation, and auditability of technology change.
- Ensure programs maintain evidence of control execution, risk decisions, and management challenge.
- Proactively identify, escalate, and remediate material technology and delivery risks.
- Integrated program planning, scope management, and schedule control.
- Budget management, forecasting, and financial transparency.
- Risk, issue, dependency, and change control management.
- Quality management and delivery assurance.
- Coaching and oversight of project managers and workstream leads.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:
- 15+ years of progressive experience in program and portfolio management, including leadership of large‑scale, enterprise, and regulatory‑driven initiatives
- Demonstrated success operating at a VP / SVP stakeholder level, partnering with executive sponsors and senior leadership
- Proven experience designing or operating enterprise intake, prioritization, and governance frameworks
- Strong working knowledge of technology risk, regulatory expectations, and control alignment within regulated environments
- Excellent executive communication and influence skills, with the ability to drive alignment across technology and business leaders
Preferred Qualifications
- Extensive experience in financial services or banking, particularly in highly regulated environments
- Preferred Program or portfolio management certification or related experience (e.g., PMP, PgMP, or equivalent)
- Experience supporting or leading PMO or portfolio maturity transformations
- Familiarity with hybrid delivery models (waterfall, agile, or mixed) in enterprise settings
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Skills Required
- 15+ years of progressive experience in program and portfolio management
- Experience leading large-scale, regulatory-driven initiatives
- Demonstrated success partnering with executive sponsors and senior leadership
- Proven experience designing or operating governance frameworks
- Strong working knowledge of technology risk and regulatory expectations
Seacoast Bank Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Seacoast Bank and has not been reviewed or approved by Seacoast Bank.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid holidays, vacation/PTO, and sick leave are part of the package, with bank holidays providing additional time off beyond standard PTO.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match and profit sharing are offered, alongside an active employee stock purchase plan that broadens long‑term wealth‑building options.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Medical, dental, vision, wellness program, EAP, flexible spending accounts, tuition reimbursement, and banking‑service perks (e.g., free accounts and safe‑deposit box) round out total compensation beyond base pay.
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Since 1926, Seacoast Bank has succeeded through a clear vision, planned strategic growth and talented, professional employees. Seacoast provides integrated financial services including commercial and consumer banking, wealth management and mortgage services to customers at 85 full-service branches across Florida, and through advanced mobile and online banking solutions. Seacoast Bank is the wholly owned subsidiary bank of Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida (NASDAQ: SBCF), one of the largest community banks headquartered in Florida and is Member FDIC/Equal Housing Lending. As of 2023, Seacoast Bank has just under 1,600 associates, $15 billion in assets and $12 billion in deposits. Our Vision: To be the trusted advisor of choice to the customers, businesses, and communities we serve. Our Four Promises: We believe that our greatest assets will always be our people — local bankers who are knowledgeable about the communities we serve and dedicated to an exceptional customer experience. For nearly a century, Seacoast Bank’s commitment to customers has remained the same and is summarized by its Four Promises. We promise to: 1. Get you comfortable with the right products and the right team to serve you 2. Make your day-to-day banking simple 3. Resolve out-of-the-ordinary items responsively 4. Invest in you and your community Please note: This page is intended to be an informational place for our customers and employees to connect and interact. To ensure that visiting our LinkedIn page is a great experience for everyone, we have a several guidelines that we ask you to follow. The Seacoast Bank Social Media Terms Of Use can be viewed at https://www.seacoastbank.com/agreements-and-disclosures/social-terms.
