Manage multiple major Market Risk technology projects, ensuring delivery on time while communicating with stakeholders, tracking issues, and translating requirements into specifications.
- Contract Senior IT Project Manager for Market Risk Technology
- MUST be local to New York City, Hybrid Schedule at least 3 days onsite
- We are seeking two highly skilled and experienced Senior IT Project Managers to join the Risk technology PMO team for managing Market Risk projects.
- Key Responsibilities:
- Manage multiple Major Projects in Market Risk Technology and manage Risk Stakeholders
- Manage planning, tracking open issues, documentation, and status updates for the ongoing projects.
- Ensure projects are delivered on time and communicate any delays to stakeholders.
- Gather estimates for new initiatives, manage project scope and timelines.
- Collaborate with other project managers to ensure that any dependencies are tracked and any blockers are resolved.
- Ensure that business requirements are translated into detailed functional and technical specifications.
- Act as a bridge between technical and non-technical teams, ensuring clear communication and understanding of project progress, design decisions, and Agile practices
- Work closely with Technology Leads and development teams to design solutions that meet business needs
- Track Development tasks and ensure product is thoroughly tested prior to Go-Live.
- For Agile Projects, serve as the Scrum Master for one or more agile teams, ensuring agile practices are followed and understood.
- Work with project sponsors on the Product Roadmap and prioritize new requests
- Generate and publish Weekly Status reports to all stakeholders and Monthly reports for Senior Management
- Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience as a Sr. PM in IT with 5 years in Market Risk, Capital Markets or Financial services
- Highly Preferred: Hands on Knowledge of concepts and processes of Market Risk
- Experience in Credit Risk or Liquidity Risk domains will be considered but such candidates will have lower priority.
- Excellent Stakeholder management
- Strong Knowledge of Financial Instruments, Derivatives
- Hands on experience with data analysis
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
Top Skills
Agile
Financial Instruments
Market Risk
Scrum
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