Senior Program Manager

We are seeking an experienced Senior Program/Project Manager to lead complex Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), SAP carve-out, SLO/SLT, IT Infrastructure, Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) initiatives across enterprise environments. Key Responsibilities Lead end-to-end delivery of M&A, SAP carve-out/SLO/SLT, infrastructure, GRC, and transformation projects . Establish and lead project kickoffs with stakeholders, technical teams, business teams, and leadership. Develop detailed project plans, WBS, milestones, resource plans, schedules, and dependencies . Plan and coordinate Program Increments (PIs) and Sprints in Agile/SAFe environments and manage Waterfall projects when required. Own RAID logs , risk identification, mitigation strategies, issue resolution, and recovery plans. Track project health, milestones, dependencies, budgets, KPIs, and overall delivery progress. Manage sub-portfolio stakeholders and provide regular health, risk, and status reporting. Establish effective project governance models, team structures, roles, responsibilities, and communication plans. Facilitate stakeholder meetings and provide clear updates to senior leadership and executives. Drive projects back to green by identifying risks early and implementing effective mitigation and resolution strategies. Coordinate infrastructure changes through CAB meetings and ensure adherence to ITIL best practices. Partner with Infrastructure, Security, Cloud, Application, and Business teams to define requirements and execution strategies. Ensure projects comply with security, audit, regulatory, and organizational governance requirements. Support infrastructure modernization initiatives including cloud migration, automation, disaster recovery, platform upgrades, and data center transformation . Manage initiatives involving servers, networking, storage, virtualization, databases, endpoints, cloud infrastructure, and data center technologies. Utilize ServiceNow for project tracking, ITSM, Change, Incident, Problem, CMDB, Asset Management, and related processes. Required Qualifications 12+ years of IT Project/Program Management experience, preferably across Infrastructure, M&A, GRC, or enterprise transformation. Hands-on experience managing complex cross-functional, end-to-end IT projects . Experience with M&A programs and/or SAP carve-outs, SLO/SLT is strongly preferred. 3+ years of hands-on experience with ServiceNow-based initiatives . Strong experience with project planning, WBS, milestones, RAID management, dependencies, and executive reporting. Experience managing projects in Agile/SAFe and/or Waterfall environments. Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills. Experience in Infrastructure Operations and/or Risk & Governance domains. Strong understanding of project governance, risk management, issue resolution, and compliance. Advanced proficiency with project management tools, including Microsoft Project . Strong analytical, organizational, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills. Experience managing financial and schedule performance reporting. Experience across the systems development lifecycle, from concept through implementation and maintenance.