<p>Kforce has a client that is seeking an Implementation Lead - Banking in Salt Lake City, UT.</p> <p>Summary: Our client is embarking on a major commercial-lending transformation, implementing a new loan-origination platform. This end-to-end program encompasses configuration, infrastructure, interfaces, data conversion, and migration. The first production release is targeted for January 2026, with key design, development, testing, mock-go-live, and dress-rehearsal milestones throughout 2025.</p> <p>Role & Responsibilities: As the Implementation Lead, you will:</p> <ul> <li>Define Deployment Strategy: Partner with business, operations, and technology stakeholders to craft a comprehensive rollout plan </li><li>Manage Implementation Readiness: Build and maintain detailed schedules covering technical and non-technical activities, environment provisioning, release coordination, staffing for command centers, bug triage, reporting, and post-go-live support </li><li>Coordinate Cross-Functional Teams: Serve as the central point for training, development, operations, infrastructure, and project teams-ensuring everyone shares a unified timeline and set of expectations </li><li>Oversee Mock Runs & Dress Rehearsals: Plan, execute, and evaluate full-scale dress rehearsals and data-conversion tests to validate processes and tooling </li><li>Lead Deployment & Transition: Organize and mentor a team of deployment leads and analysts to install the solution in production, define user-rollout strategies, conduct readiness checkpoints, and prepare operational and technical transition plans* Transformation Experience: Proven track record leading large-scale loan-platform or core-system conversions-ideally within financial services </li><li>Implementation Expertise: Hands-on experience planning and executing multi-team deployments, including mock-go-lives and cutovers </li><li>Project Leadership: Exceptional organizational skills, with strong command of project-management best practices (PMP, Agile/SAFe) </li><li>Collaboration & Communication: Outstanding verbal and written communication; ability to build trust across business, technical, and operations teams </li><li>Technical Aptitude: Comfortable coordinating infrastructure, data-migration, and integration activities-though this is a leadership-focused role </li></ul>