Job Description

looking for a seasoned senior project manager that has a combination of experience with large project delivery and large teams with technical, investment, and people skills working in a fast paced, innovative, and collaborative environment. Both emotional intelligence and the ability to solve complex problems and communicate effectively are key to success. Ideally, candidate will have a strong background leading a large Agile Scrum transformation team of developers, business analysts, testers, and business users to in a market risk analytics business environment. This position is part of a key transformation effort involving the preparation and processing of investment data to be used by quantitative business analysts. Efforts includes managing the project team and performing scrum master duties.

The Investment Project Manager will be accountable to manage and monitor project tasks and controls during project execution and delivery activities to ensure on-time and quality goals are met within scope and budget. Work independently and apply advanced project management knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project deliverables, processes, communications, and presentations to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations.
In addition to demonstrating solid business and technical project management skills, the project manager must have a general background and experience with the investments domain and must be able to understand the needs of the stakeholders across the front, middle and back office to ensure that solutions are aligned to the business needs. This individual will be driving projects through the project agile life cycle and working with other project managers in the program to define and reinforce investment management project standards.

High Level Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing and maintaining project plan, Agile JIRA board, and project communication tools
• As a seasoned ScrumMaster, lead the Agile team through Scrum ceremonies and related activities to plan, capture, and meet sprint deliverables; maintain the JIRA board; and provide appropriate reporting metrics and status.
• Responsible for managing a large project team of business analysts, developers, and testers across multiple locations and time zones to ensure they stay on track and meet agreed upon deliverables with direction from Program Manager and Product Owner.
• Mange and guide direction and verification of team member\xe2\x80\x99s activities by week during the sprint.
• Ability to identify/manage risks and issues and collaboratively develop mitigation plans and escalate as appropriate with the team, management, and interfacing teams.
• Coordinate completion of required project governance documents/artifacts to meet corporate guidelines
• Accountable for meeting all business requirements from development through implementation
• Partner with technology and PMO organizations to ensure best practices and planning for implementation.
• Ability to communicate and work with various business and technical SMEs as well as stakeholders to support the business needs.
• Facilitate lessons learned and retain information in a central location for future use
• Publish weekly status report and maintain RAID log

Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to partner with investment/business personnel to advance project
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with and drive business and systems subject matter experts, based on both investment and technology domain knowledge
• Demonstrated ability to understand how tasks and milestones collaborate and connect across related functionality as well as projects
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with all project constituents, including but not limited to: Agile SCRUM team members; Product Owner, business users, senior stakeholders and other interested parties using verbal and written methods
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Proficient experience with Project Management tools including but not limited to: Atlassian Jira, Zephyr for Jira, Smartsheets, Slack as well as MS Office Suite (Project, Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word)
• Certified ScrumMaster preferred. PMP is desired but not required
• Engage resources to manage the movement of advanced application components from development to the production environment.
• Manages and controls application-oriented vendor software updates. May oversee the installation of new and/or updated systems software.
• Projects are large in scope, typically cross-functional and technically difficult, often involving combinations of platforms and computing environments and technologies.

Experience:

• At least 7+ years of professional experience working at the intersection of investment management and technology with a focus on front, middle and back-office operations and data management required
• Prior experience with IT projects involving SQL database and UI development thru implementation
• Excellent interpersonal and team management skills to promote team productivity and cohesion.
• Experience leading and managing large, complex agile transformations, with expertise around specific issues that arise with agile in functions including Investment Operations and Portfolio Risk Analytics and beyond (e.g., IT, Finance, Risk, Legal) and / or scaling agile across the broader enterprise

Education:

• A Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in business administration or related fields is required. Master of Business Administration and/or CFA designation is preferred.