Project Management Lead

U.S. Financial Technology is seeking an experienced Project Management Lead to join their team of talented professionals. The role involves overseeing a portfolio of strategic initiatives, managing IT and delivery projects, and driving process improvements across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Support execution of various IT Delivery in partnership with other Leaders representing Development, Infrastructure, InfoSec, Data Management, Business Operations and Risk organizations
• Drive end-to-end project delivery, from estimation and business case approval through execution, go-live readiness, product launch and benefit reporting post-go-live
• Partner with cross-organizational stakeholders to drive process improvement and optimization efforts
• In partnership with leaders across organization, own maturation of the estimation process and tools for new Programs and Products
• Facilitate the estimation process as needed
• Create and actively maintain the project plan and cross functional dependencies
• Continuously monitor and report on progress of the project to all stakeholders (using relevant Agile and waterfall metrics)
• Keep senior management advised of significant trends, emerging risks and other issues
• Provide recommendations and drive issue resolution
• Facilitate team meetings and key Agile ceremonies
• Manage day-to-day activities related to managing one or more projects from initiation through completion
• Contribute to the continued maturation of the project management methodology, best practice frameworks and related tools
• Support Enterprise level initiative planning, prioritization and budgeting process

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required
• Minimum of 8 years of project management experience working in a large-scale IT production and development environment
• Minimum 3 years of experience with Agile methodologies
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the US without requiring employer sponsorship currently or in the future
• Previous experience managing large, complex, highly cross functional software development efforts is required (i.e. coordinating across 5+ delivery workstreams / departments)
• Ability to drive enterprise level business and technology transformation projects is required
• Strong project management skills (schedule development and management, meeting facilitation, execution monitoring, status reporting, and risk management)
• Ability to produce and deliver Executive level presentations via PowerPoint and accurately read your audience, articulate presentation of ideas, and influence change
• Experience working in Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid environments
• Strong achievement orientation and attention to details
• Ability to multitask in a fast paced, matrix environment
• Ability to collect/analyze data and formulate business recommendations for senior management
• Excellent communication skills and ability to create presentation materials for Executive audience
• Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor others on team
• Proficiency with key MS products (Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio) and Agile Portfolio management tools such as JIRA
• Top tier management consulting industry background preferred
• Experience with bid / estimation processes for new custom development efforts preferred