IT Project Tech Lead - Vice President

IT Project Tech Lead - Vice President

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Job Overview

The Information Services Group (ISG) is responsible for providing authoritative sources of reference data to our clients across the Institutional Client Services (ICG) organization, through implementing state of the art technologies and operational processes which promote the collection, storage, analysis, and distribution of product, pricing, account and corporate action data. The ISG organization works in partnership with data clients across all ICG business lines, deploying solutions to increase their competitiveness, through restructuring business processes, simplifying information access, and providing business intelligence around critical data.

The project management team is responsible for managing projects, staffing and budgets that include but not limited to foundational product & pricing coverage extensions & integrations with applications with Front, Middle and Back office systems. This will involve communication with multiple teams, managing complex dependencies, collecting and packaging status reporting covering cross functional areas.

Job Description

• Work with business stakeholders and IT partners outside of ISG to execute projects and deliver business solutions

• Manage IT and Reference Data projects across several teams

• Create and manage project plans across complex cross functional teams

• Document and communicate project status, risks, issues, mitigation plans

• Collect requirements and structure information, create system flows, and depict current state dependencies to provide project documentation

• Prepare and communicate senior management reports on program status and metrics

• Work closely with IT and Operations partners to identify areas which require monitoring and create business as usual (BAU) processes to satisfy the requirement

• Management of Panorama (internal delivery management tool) to ensure staffing, deliverables, and status reporting for in-flight programs

• Managing client data inquiries and issues

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, MIS, or related fields, specialized training or equivalent work experience

• 6+ years' experience in a related technology role and subject matter expert in overall field

• Working experience of 5+ years minimum as a Project Manager

• Financial Knowledge on Securities across multiple asset classes (Equites, Fixed Income, Mortgages, etc.)

• Strong experience with Atlassian and MS Office, with emphasis on JIRA, MS Visio, MS Project, MS PowerPoint

• Strong experience with Project Plans, RIAD Logs, Powerpoint Presentations, Senior Communications

• Experience/understanding of business process reengineering and business modeling concepts, business systems development and analysis

• Strong analytical skills and writing skills, including solid experience in writing functional and technical specifications

• Must possess excellent verbal skills with the ability to communicate to senior audiences

• Ability to focus on high quality work while under pressure

Preferred Skills

• Banking Technology Program management lead experience

• Strong analytical skills and writing skills, to include solid experience in writing functional and technical specifications

• Strong teamwork skills in a small local setting, as well as across different geographic locations

• Experience with network diagrams and architecture diagrams

• Experienced in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), including Waterfall and Agile methodologies

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.