Agile Project Manager
Location: Buffalo, NY - 2 to 3 days onsite (locals preferred)
Duration: Long Term
Resource Region: USA
Key skills:
Project Manager Exp:
Managing Financial Portfolio’s exp:
Any Core Banking exp:
Agile, Scrum, Kanban Exp:
PM tools (GPDM, Clarity, HIBS, MS Office, Advanced Excel skills, JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, and Teams):
Banking/Financial clients exp (Specify the client names):
Any certifications (Please specify):
Overview: Technology Project Management jobs are accountable for successful delivery of Technology projects and ensuring benefits realization. Program outputs may form part of a technology-based change programme, delivery of a technology-only Programme, or may be standalone. The scope of projects may be global and may span multiple business areas.
The Project Management role will hold most or all of these responsibilities:
· Managing the Program approach, building stakeholder buy-in around the Program plan, commitments, and changes.
· Supporting Technology teams to manage delivery proactively, balancing scope, schedule, resourcing, dependencies, communications, budget.
· Working with the Technology team and Product Owner to drive improvements in productivity through backlog management, maturity in the use of Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Lean), and corresponding management of dependencies
· Providing management to maintain a focus on how the Program aligns to wider programme objectives, where appropriate, and to the change portfolio across the company
· Managing, monitoring, and reporting progress, issues, dependencies and risks to the programme management, internal stakeholders and/or steering committees. Also, making recommendations to influence decision-making to maintain progress towards delivery and benefits realization.
· Enforcing process discipline and improvements in areas of expertise, such as disciplined agile software delivery, production support processes and continuous DevOps pipelines development
· Helping with the development and running of the programme management office or Program management practice
· Ensuring adherence to standard controls and driving teams to achieve compliance and framework, capability management, Security controls and technology architecture designs.
· Establishing effective governance and controls, in line with Business Transformation Framework, and coordinating cross DevOps and cross Global Business/Global Functions delivery
Qualifications - External
· Located in Buffalo is a plus, so they are able to come into the office 2 or 3 days. However willing to consider remote for a good candidate.
· Proven prior experience in managing financial portfolios; Core Banking experience is a plus.
· Experience running Agile projects.
· Proven prior experience working independently.
· Proven experience in working with matrix reporting teams across multiple time zones and is willing and able to support out of core hours meetings.
· Proven experience in driving programs through Agile and scrum methods
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills, financial proficiency, and expert attention to details with respect to numbers produced.
· Experienced in tools such as GPDM, Clarity, HIBS, MS Office, Advanced Excel skills, JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, and Teams
· Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders within IT, Global Businesses, Finance
· Work closely with their respective Portfolio Manager, the Global ITID PPM Practice team and their senior stakeholders to ensure alignment of their project/programme with the wider change portfolio and group strategy, values, and behaviour.
· Provide board level overview of progress, lead and direct multidisciplinary teams across all global businesses, global functions, and regions.
· Lead end to end execution and responsibility for all aspects of the project/programme, including definition, planning, execution & implementation, governance & control, financial, resource and change management.
· Provide financial analysis, including being able to contextualize financial data into business activities and conclusions.
· Ensure the adherence to financial processes and procedures at project/programme level, as set and communicated by the group, regulators and ITID PPM Practice.
· Own the identification and escalation of any budgetary related risks, issues, and opportunities to portfolio/function as appropriate.
· Have responsibility for effective handover of the project/programme into Business-as-Usual operations to support effective benefits realization.
· Have responsibility for deploying the Business Transformation Frameworks and respective methodologies within their Programme/Project and instilling good programme/project disciplines within their project and wider team.