Project Manager
Typical Day in Role
• Participating/leading in scrum session with team on a daily basis
• Managing stakeholder requirements and expectations to project timelines and budget
• Maintaining JIRA backlog and planning
• Hands-on management of meetings, status reports, reporting to steering committees and working groups
• Leading an agile team and holding scrum meetings
• Facilitating KPIs and measuring productivity within the team
• Maintaining project plans (Gantt)
• Reporting project status, roadblocks and milestones to the project stakeholder and sponsors throughout the course of the project
• Communicating with vendors, main stakeholders on the trading desk, system architects, development staff, QAs, BAs, and other PMs.
• Assist in some BA duties (creating flow-charts, diagrams, documentation, etc.)
• Assist or lead on other smaller projects
• Involved in network planning, hardware planning and architecture
• Providing guidance to the project team to ensure efforts are aligned to the project delivery goal.
• Facilitating project control processes, project gating documents in adherence to EPMO standards. Focus on Governance processes, ensuring projects are moving through the appropriate channels and drive the initiatives
• Project: building product to replace legacy system (processes transactions from front end system, augments, and shared with back-end system – Broadridge)
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
• 10+ years’ experience as managing technical teams in relevant roles such as a project or product manager with strong experience working hands-on with developers
• 5+ years’ experience developing solutions for Trading Desk (product oriented, understanding workflows, exposure to trading side, how to initiate a transactional booking, etc.)
o Required product groups: Institutional equities or listed derivative products
• 3+ years’ experience working with or leading an application development team is required
• 3+ years’ of architecture concept exposure in recent projects
• 3+ years’ of database design (SQL) experience
Nice to have:
– Development background, and/or working with developers in the capacity of a BA/PM and has the ability to read code
Soft Skills:
• Strong communication Skills (ability to position concepts, articulate to Senior Managers, motivate developers)
• Proactive and self-driven
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment is required
Degrees or certifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required.
• PMI/PMP designations are an asset