AVP IT Program / Project Management

Company: Security State Bank & Trust
Location: Fredericksburg
Posted on: February 17, 2026

Job Description:

Job Description Job Description Description: Company vision Rooted in the heart of Texas, SSB&T is your dedicated community bank in the Hill Country. We believe in being a trustworthy resource, guided by authentic, actionable values. Our talented team members inherently understand what it means to Care, Do What is Right, and Go Above and Beyond for our customers, community and professional culture. About the role The AVP IT Program & Project Management leads the Bank’s technology program and project delivery, ensuring initiatives are aligned with business strategy, executed with discipline, and governed to meet regulatory expectations. This role oversees portfolio planning, delivery governance, and execution across enterprise technology initiatives, partnering closely with business leaders, IT, and third-party providers to provide transparency into progress, risk, and outcomes. The AVP plays a key role in translating organizational priorities into actionable roadmaps and ensuring technology investments deliver measurable value to the Bank. Essential responsibilities Program & Portfolio Leadership: Provide executive oversight of the IT program and project portfolio, ensuring initiatives are aligned with strategy, business priorities, and risk appetite. Strategic Translation & Execution: Translate organizational and technology strategies into multi-year programs, roadmaps, and delivery plans that drive measurable business outcomes. Governance & Delivery Standards: Establish, enforce, and continuously improve project management frameworks, governance models, and delivery standards to ensure consistency, transparency, and audit readiness. Advisory & Decision Support: Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, providing clear insights, trade-offs, and recommendations related to scope, risk, cost, timing, and capacity. Portfolio Prioritization & Capacity Management: Partner with senior leaders to prioritize initiatives, manage resource capacity, and balance competing demands across the IT and business portfolios. Risk, Issue & Dependency Oversight: Maintain enterprise visibility into program and project risks, issues, and interdependencies; ensure proactive mitigation strategies and timely executive escalation. Financial & Investment Management: Oversee program and project financials, including budgets, forecasts, benefits realization, and vendor spend, ensuring disciplined investment management and value delivery. Cross-Functional Leadership: Drive alignment and accountability across IT, business units, Risk, Compliance, Information Security, Audit, Senior Leadership and third-party partners. Change & Organizational Readiness: Sponsor and guide change management efforts to ensure business readiness, adoption, and sustained value realization from technology initiatives. Executive Reporting & Transparency: Deliver concise, decision-ready reporting to executive leadership and governance committees on portfolio health, milestones, risks, financials, and outcomes. Regulatory & Control Alignment: Ensure IT programs and projects meet regulatory requirements, internal controls, and information security standards in partnership with second- and third-line functions. Continuous Improvement & Maturity: Advance the maturity of program and project management capabilities, tools, and metrics to improve predictability, speed, and delivery confidence. Evolving Scope & Enterprise Needs: Adapt responsibilities and delivery models as the organization grows, technology evolves, and strategic priorities shift. Employment Commitments & Physical Requirements Exempt Full Time role. Core Business Hours Monday- Friday 8am-5pm. Community / volunteer involvement. Sedentary role requiring prolonged sitting, with frequent use of hands for typing and operating computers. Occasional walking, standing, and use of office equipment. Must possess close visual acuity and clear speech for communication. Location & Travel In-Office / Hybrid / Remote. Preferred location: San Antonio Metro, Fredericksburg, DFW and Austin. Travel may be necessary depending on business needs. Requirements: Candidate Requirements Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience). 10 years of progressive experience in IT program and project management. Demonstrated ability to translate business and technology strategy into executable multi-year programs and roadmaps. Proven experience establishing, enforcing, and evolving project management frameworks, portfolio governance, and delivery standards. Strong expertise overseeing enterprise-level risk, issue, dependency, and change management. Experience managing multi-million-dollar budgets, forecasts, benefits realization, and vendor management. Ability to communicate clearly and credibly with executive leadership, boards, regulators, and external partners. Strong business and financial acumen with the ability to balance delivery speed, cost, quality, and risk. Demonstrated experience operating in a regulated or audit-sensitive environment. Candidate Preferred Qualifications Master’s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related discipline. Experience within financial services, banking, or other highly regulated industries. Prior responsibility for establishing, scaling, or leading a PMO or bank wide Portfolio Management function. Experience overseeing core system conversions, digital transformation initiatives, cloud migrations, cybersecurity programs, or large vendor implementations. Strong working knowledge of regulatory, audit, and information security requirements impacting technology initiatives. Demonstrated success driving organizational change management for enterprise technology programs. Professional certifications such as PMP, PgMP, SAFe, Lean Portfolio Management, or Scrum Master. Track record of improving delivery predictability, transparency, and portfolio performance through governance and process maturity. Experience partnering closely with Risk, Compliance, Information Security, and Audit leadership. SSB&T Employee benefits SSB&T offers all eligible full-time employees a robust benefits package. Employees receive benefits to support total health, financial and work life balance. Benefits packages include life insurance, medical, dental, vision, disability, 401K, vacation and sick time. Full time employees will receive 11 paid federal holidays. Compensation We are committed to competitive compensation at SSB&T. By analyzing market data, we establish fair salary ranges. Your pay is determined by your experience, the role's market value, and your geographical location. The job description and supporting information reflects the details deemed to be necessary to describe the principal functions required of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all work to be performed in the job role. Employee shall perform such work as may be required of Employee by Company in accordance with the job description, as well as the instructions, directions and control of Company and at such reasonable time and places as Company may determine. At all times during the Employment Period, Employee shall strictly adhere to all the rules and regulations that have been or that may hereafter be established by Company for the conduct of its employees and further, Employee shall strictly adhere to all the provisions of the Company’s handbook(s).

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