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.