Technical Program Manager

The position duties are as follows: Lead and architect complex, enterprise-scale technical initiatives across Jane Street’s IT and infrastructure organizations, owning end-to-end delivery of mission-critical systems while establishing program management excellence across multiple engineering disciplines and global teams. Day to day duties include:

• Architect and execute multi-year, cross-functional technical programs involving complex security infrastructure, regulatory compliance systems, and trading technology integration;
• Drive strategic technical decision-making by synthesizing requirements across trading, risk management, compliance, and operations teams while balancing competing business priorities;
• Establish and optimize program management frameworks, including risk assessment methodologies, technical governance processes, and engineering delivery metrics across distributed global teams;
• Shape and execute the strategic direction of technical products, form roadmaps, and define delivery strategy; and
• Mentor and develop junior program managers while building scalable program management practices and technical standards.

The position requires a 3 or 4 year Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field or foreign equivalent plus three (3) years of progressively responsible exp in any occupation where implementing multiple program management methodologies (e.g.: Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, or Kanban) in a financial or technology firm is gained. Experience must include:

• Three (3) years of experience using project tracking software such as Jira to prioritize, coordinate, and deliver technical feature work;
• One (1) year of experience managing distributed systems architectures, virtualized and remote computing platforms (e.g. Citrix, VMWare, KVM), and real-time trading desktop infrastructure (across MacOS and Windows platforms);
• One (1) year of applying domain expertise in IT systems and processes, including administration of enterprise identity and access-management platforms including Microsoft Entra ID, within environments subject to financial regulatory and governance obligations, trading systems, vendor reference data, supply chains, and counterparty connectivity in the context of a trading environment;
• One (1) year of experience producing data driven metric and dashboard visualizations to track project deliverables;
• One (1) year of experience managing vendor relationships and multi-stage procurement processes for specialized trading technology, involving information-security, compliance, support agreement and legal reviews for third party vendors; and
• One (1) year of experience interfacing with Large Language Models (LLM) and Agentic AI tools to automate workflows.
• All technical requirements for this role may be subject to employer conducted testing to assess minimum proficiency.

Part time telecommuting may be permitted with manager approval.