Hiring: Lead Technical Program Manager (Director level, individual contributor) Company: John Hancock Location: Boston, MA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 17:35:20 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : .NET, ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, Angular, C#, CI/CD, ETL, Enterprise Architecture, Event-Driven, HTML, Microservices, Program Management, Python, REST, RESTful, React, Risk Management, SQL Server, Systems Engineering, TypeScript, VB.NET About the job Experience: •8+ years of progressive experience delivering complex technology programs in insurance, financial services, or another highly regulated industry. •5+ years leading large, multi-year, cross-platform technology initiatives involving multiple engineering teams, business functions, vendors, and senior stakeholders. •5+ years of life insurance technology experience strongly preferred, with direct exposure to product development, actuarial or calculation capabilities, illustrations, point-of-sale, new business, underwriting, policy administration, or related distribution platforms. Required Skills: •Initiative management •: Overseeing the entire lifecycle of an initiative including initiating programs, driving delivery, and providing support when issues arise •Responsible and accountable for ensuring all aspects of delivery of technology services including Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring/Controlling, Closure, and Post initiative evaluation activities to deliver on scope, budget, and schedule for technology commitments. Qualifications: •: Using their background in understanding software engineering and technology to implement technology strategies and ensure effective software delivery •Cross-functional leadership •: Providing cross-functional leadership and building alignment for efforts such as product architecture and synchronizing the ask with the IT organization service areas to deliver services. •Technical risk management •: Identifying and mitigating technical risks that could impact project success •Works closely with Business Initiative lead to build schedule, milestones, goals, and scope by aligning and incorporating technology aspects from components, solutions, feasibility and delivery. •Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, while actively driving alignment and productivity for aligned Team •Strong foundation in software engineering, systems engineering, solution architecture, or technical product leadership, with the ability to review and challenge system designs, APIs, integrations, data flows, deployment models, test strategies, and non-functional requirements. •Comprehensive expertise in enterprise architecture, platform modernization, cloud adoption, security, data, DevSecOps, observability, operational resilience, and architectural trade-offs across legacy and modern technology stacks. •Strong knowledge of current-state technologies, including .NET Framework, VB.NET, C#, WinForms, ASP.NET Web Forms, IIS, SQL Server, ETL, batch processing, reporting, legacy calculation engines, document generation, and point-to-point integrations. Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!