Job Posting Title: Intermediate IT Program Manager
Location Address: WFH (Scarborough, ON)
Contract Duration: 11/30/2020 to 10/31/2021
Our large financial client is searching for Senior IT Program Manager to manage high level work streams for net new programs that are revenue generating for the bank.
Project: This high priority project will be directly supporting Stakeholder and SVPs for Global digital initiative to onboard customers online over the next few months. The project involves coordination with multiple business lines globally as well as both internal and external stakeholders to determine the roadmap and processes for global implementation. Having a dedicated role to manage the roll out of the program is critical to success.
• Reason for request: Project/Workload
Candidate Value Proposition
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on other projects based on their performance and engage with senior stakeholders as they navigate through a Hybrid Agile workflow.
Daily Responsibilities:
• Managing the global roll out of the program by planning and sequencing activities, developing schedules, managing business line engagement, documentation, ensuring process compliance, troubleshooting, risk mitigation, reporting and escalation management.
• Develops and leads the execution of innovation or delivery strategies for one or more products, services, platforms or technical specialties
• Is accountable for setting technical standards, determining business value and identifying opportunities to leverage reusability and scalability
• Leads the solution of unique problems that have a broad impact on the business – accountability typically spans across multiple products, a line of businesses or with significant enterprise system impact
• Defines and maintains the roadmap
• Recommends technical strategy within a technical domain, may investigate and evaluate new technologies
• Impacts the technical direction and resource allocation for products, services or platforms supported
• Influences business trade-off decisions with direct impact on financials or operating results
• Takes a strategic focus aligned to business priorities
• At the highest levels, provides authoritative advice on the enterprise system, strategy, or develops innovative services or products
• Driving the delivery of the program/project
• Project Planning
• Project Monitoring & Control
• Project Governance & reporting
• Project Closure
• Risk management – governing risk
• To advise the stakeholder
Must Have Skills:
1. 3-5 years of experience as a Senior Project Manager in the Financial Services Industry, managing large complex Application projects, that have significant IT and operational components
2. Spanish Speaking (verbal and oral communication skills) is a must
2. Excellent communication (verbal/written/presentation) to manage SVP and Stakeholder relations for a new program launch, proven through experience managing Steering Committee presentations (minimum 2 recent projects)
3. Minimum last 3-5 projects with a large scope for the PM life cycle – Excellent track record managing projects of higher complexity, dealing with multiple stakeholders
4. Strong understanding of Agile project management principles and practices and experience managing projects in an Agile environment – will likely be hybrid
5. Mature interpersonal skills with the ability to work with, and influence, all types of professionals
6. Expert Knowledge of project management tools with minimum 5 years’ experience navigating through programs utilizing CA PPM as a tool and similar techniques
Education: • bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Business, or related discipline
Nice to have Skills:
– LATAM market experience is a big plus and will be prioritized
– PMP certification is a plus, industry experience outweighs
• Scrum Master Certification (CSM) and/or Master’s degree / MBA