Associate Director Project Manager

Associate Director Project Manager

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About DTCC:
With over 40 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From operating facilities and data centers around the world, DTCC automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions across the trade lifecycle and mitigates risk for thousands of institutions worldwide.

At DTCC we value on our clients' interests and partner to deliver superior results with excellence and innovation and lead with integrity. We proactively develop your potential and invest in your career.
Why you'll love this job:
The Project Management role specializes in the management of significant technical projects (e.g., strategic organizational change, new business and product initiatives, process re-engineering, establishment of control procedures, etc.). You will have the satisfaction of enabling the senior technical team to plan effectively, prioritize, raise risks for early mitigation, manage stakeholder expectations, and celebrate successes. Transformation of a high performing team to an efficient one that is well respected and recognized will be the outcome.
Your Responsibilities
You will help deliver DTCC's Container Platform, enabling platform capabilities to aid application modernization, enable application portability across DTCCs hybrid cloud platforms, influencing appDev to adopt cloud ready design patterns and meet resiliency as well as security and governance requirements. This is pioneering team that is influencing new ways of thinking and problem solving not only in technology, also in ways of working within the Containers ecosystem, as well as across the organization.

• Planning/Reporting : Your responsibilities include but are not limited to weekly status reporting, participating in quarterly planning, assisting in annual resource demand planning, crafting, and leading assigned projects using both the DTCC Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) system and the Jira application, and understanding and following a defined software delivery process and associated controls. Participate in Scrum of Scrums meetings to ensure the Squad and the others in the Tribe are aligned on priorities, dependencies and timelines.
• Communication : Ensure accurate and visible communications to collaborators with concise metrics and updates on progress, risks, and impediments Team member Coordination, Communication and Reporting.
• Learning and Improvement : Build meaningful relationships with squad members and stakeholders and resolve most issues leveraging your rapport and trust with squad members. Be an enthusiastic change agent and peer. Drive continuous learning and process improvements within the squads. Possess a comprehensive understanding of Agile tools, techniques, principles and values and apply this knowledge to the squad. Successfully balance delivery timeframes and continuous iteration so that customer feedback is always incorporated
• Coaching: Understand both the squad's overall capacity and impediments that impact individual members of the squad. Work to build a team culture that values balanced execution by not over-committing. Coach squad with knowledge and expertise as well as encourage experimentation to support their journey towards self-sufficiency. Coach PO and squad to maintain a healthy and prioritized backlog with refined user stories

Qualifications

• A minimum of seven (7) years in IT Project Management or Scrum Master Roles
• Bachelors' Degree and/or equivalent years of experience
• Shown experience forecasting on project effort and financials and tracking and reporting against budget.
• Shown experience with project management tools such as HP PPM or MS Project.
• Experience in resource and project management using HP PPM.
• Experience using a Phased (waterfall) delivery approach, Kanban concepts and Agile Deliveries
• Experience in Automating Processes
• Experience working in the Financial Services or Financial Technologies (FinTech) space.
• Experience with MS Project, PowerPoint, Visio, Teams, SharePoint, Excel Pivot Tables or Power BI Experience in Agile Development, with Scrum Master (or similar) experience
• Previous software development lifecycle experience and working knowledge of infrastructure project delivery
• Scrum Master certification a plus

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

About Us

DTCC safeguards the financial markets and helps them run efficiently, in times of prosperity and crisis. We are uniquely positioned at the center of global trading activity, processing over 100 million financial transactions every day, pioneering industry-wide, post-trade solutions and maintaining multiple data and operating centers worldwide. From where we stand, we can anticipate the industry's needs and we're working to continually improve the world's most resilient, secure and efficient market infrastructure. Our employees are driven to deliver innovative technologies that improve efficiency, lower cost and bring stability and certainty to the post-trade lifecycle.

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you'll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It's the chance to make a difference at a company that's truly one of a kind.

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About the Team

To maintain strong alignment between IT and the business, we are bringing together all Solutions-focused teams under a unified technology organization, IT Solutions. The newly-formed IT Solutions department combines Application Development and Enterprise Application Support functions, allowing us to leverage synergies to support the Solutions business lines.