Job Description

As part of the Technology Project Office team, the Project Manager is the responsible party providing project management oversight for advisory and portfolio management projects, e.g. tools/product implementation to support discretionary portfolio management business in the bank that require the coordination of development work or technology work, as well as associated integration components / services to achieve desired functionality. The PM would provide leadership to guide and coach team members, liaise with business partners and external vendors.
The role requires end-to-end oversight and hands-on project management skills through initiation, planning, analysis, design, testing, implementation as well as rollout/stabilization and entails regular contacts with both Technology and Business stakeholders. The project manager is to provide timely updates to all governance bodies and senior stakeholders on the progress of the projects, impacts to projects, major milestones, and risks to projects on a regular as well as need-to basis. The position requires direct involvement in solution architecture discussions to enable the progressive build of a Service Oriented Architecture around the technology platform.
The project manager is also expected to be liaise with external vendors, monitor, and coordinate efforts between multiple vendors in the seamless delivery of the project.
He/she should work in partnership with Business stakeholders and Operations and Technology to deliver projects with agreed scope, schedule, budget, and quality.
Responsibilities:

• Prepare project feasibility studies, cost-benefit analysis and proposals and obtain required approvals from appropriate IT management and project sponsors
• Establish project plans, resources, budgets, and timeframes, and assign tasks
• Identify, track, and communicate project progress, milestones, deliverables changes and dependencies within the schedule, costs, issues, and risks
• Manage project team\'s performance of project tasks, provide technical advice and guidance, schedule assignments and training for development, prepare performance appraisals
• Coordinate project activities across multiple development, product management, user experience and QA teams in a matrix organization
• Secure acceptance and approval of deliverables or revisions to the project from the project sponsor and stakeholders
• Manage vendor relationship and deliverables
• Evaluate and recommend purchases of software packages, hardware, and service vendors where appropriate
• Ensure work deliverables are in compliance with bank policies and regulatory requirements
• Plan for and oversee preparation of documentation of each project phase (business requirements, functional specification, project plan, test strategy, test plan, etc), training and support in new/modified applications
• Facilitate team\'s project delivery, project planning and project execution while adhering to Agile values and practices
• Facilitate daily scrum, sprint planning (including effort estimation and resource planning), sprint demo, retrospective meetings, and backlog grooming
• Supports the organizational transformation, share best practices and tools that are successful.

• Knowledge in Portfolio Management and Advisory functions in the wealth/premier banking domain is essential
• Understanding of technical aspects of system integration in a mix technology environment
• Comprehensive knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc.
• Working knowledge in Agile toolsets such as JIRA, Confluence and complementing practices such as DevOps, TDD

• Tertiary education required
• More than 10 years in project management in IT in investment bank delivering projects exceeding S$5 mil
• 3-5 years of Scrum Master, or agile-practicing Project Manager experience in Information Technology in a project-based environment, preferably in financial institution / banking industry
• Certification or formal training in project management is an advantage
• Experience on Aladdin (BlackRock) is preferable.
• Experience in agile project delivery is an advantage
• Self-starter with excellent leadership and team building skills
• Ability to resolve complex problems creatively
• Experience in managing senior stakeholders
• Strong organizational, communication and conflict resolution skills
• Agile / Scrum Master certification is a plus

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