Position Description: Program Manager
-Responsible for providing program management support for key technology projects
-coordinate, partner, and assist in identifying, evaluating, and reporting program/project progress points, dependencies and risks
-identify issues and recommend remediation activities
-schedule and manage meetings to understand project status, issues and risks.
-Participate in Agile ceremonies, group discussions and meetings to ensure timely execution of tasks and delivery as well as appropriate escalation of issues to management.
-Support development of standard reporting and issues tracking.
Responsibilities / Job Functions
-Program management of key project deliverables across multiple work teams
-Provide regular reporting to management including risks, issues and progress points
- Coordinate project meetings
-Follow up on issues and risks, escalating appropriately to team and senior management
Skills Required Communication:
-Ability to communicate and articulate at all levels clearly and concisely
-Knowledge of financial services industry
-Familiarity with SDLC, software development processes and technology infrastructure
-Critical thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
-Driven and motivated self-starter with a can-do approach
-Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills, and the ability to communicate issues to technical and nontechnical audiences.
-Ability to manage multiple projects under strict timelines, as well as the ability to work well in a demanding, dynamic environment and meet overall objectives.
-High level of personal integrity, as well as the ability to professionally handle confidential matters, and show an appropriate level of judgment and maturity
-Excellent attention to detail and organization skills Experience Summary
-Candidates should have program management experience in financial services and be able to demonstrate an understanding of SDLC and software development management
-Candidates need to be able to demonstrate leadership, influencing and communications skills as they will be required to work alongside management as well as technical staff.
-Financial Services experience validation across the division.
-Self-sufficient HP PPM and project initiation processes.