Project Manager Senior Associate

Pay and Benefits:
 

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

Your Primary Responsibilities:
 

• Manage multiple concurrent HR technology projects and initiatives across various delivery squads.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, and resource plans.
• Track project health, risks, issues, assumptions, and decisions.
• Ensure projects are delivered on schedule and aligned with business priorities.
• Facilitate project governance, status reviews, steering committee meetings, and stakeholder discussions.
• Support Agile delivery practices across multiple squads.
• Organize sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives, and delivery reviews.
• Partner with Product Owners and Technical Leads to ensure user stories are properly documented and prioritized.
• Track sprint commitments, delivery progress, and impediments.
• Drive accountability and alignment across teams.
• Administer and maintain JIRA boards, workflows, dashboards, and reporting.
• Ensure requirements, defects, enhancements, and technical debt items are properly tracked.
• Work with technology leads and business stakeholders to prioritize work based on business value and strategic objectives.
• Develop reporting metrics and dashboards to provide visibility into delivery performance.
• Guide teams on adherence to Software Development Process (SDP) standards and enterprise delivery practices.
• Ensure required project artifacts, documentation, approvals, and controls are completed throughout the project lifecycle.
• Coordinate architecture reviews, risk assessments, testing activities, and production readiness reviews.
• Support audit, compliance, and governance requirements as applicable.
• Act as a liaison between HR, IT, Product Owners, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Vendors, and Delivery Teams.
• Facilitate stakeholder meetings and communication forums.
• Ensure alignment on priorities, scope, timelines, and delivery expectations.
• Escalate risks and issues appropriately while driving resolution.
• Prepare and distribute project status reports, executive dashboards, RAID logs, and portfolio summaries.
• Provide concise and accurate updates to leadership regarding project progress, risks, budget impacts, and resource needs.
• Identify delivery bottlenecks and recommend corrective actions.
• Identify opportunities to improve project delivery processes, governance, communication, and team effectiveness.
• Promote standardization, automation, and operational efficiencies.
• Support implementation of AI-driven and modern project management practices where applicable.
• Foster knowledge sharing and collaboration across teams.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 6 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• 5+ years of IT Project Management experience, preferably supporting enterprise applications.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and Agile delivery teams.
• Strong understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Experience managing and administering JIRA, dashboards, workflows, and backlog management processes.
• Experience creating project plans, resource plans, RAID logs, executive status reports, and governance materials.
• Ability to coordinate activities across multiple squads and delivery workstreams.
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams including Business, Product, Technology, Architecture, Infrastructure, and Vendors.
• Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Experience managing project risks, dependencies, and issue resolution processes.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to operate independently and drive outcomes in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, including Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and project reporting tools.
• Experience supporting HR Technology initiatives, Oracle HCM Cloud, Payroll, Benefits, Talent, Learning, or Workforce Management projects.
• Understanding of SDP, architecture governance, and enterprise IT controls.
• Experience working in financial services or other highly regulated industries.
• PMP, PMI-ACP, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe, or equivalent certifications.
• Experience with portfolio management and resource planning tools.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled project management and reporting solutions.
• Exposure to cloud transformation, SaaS implementations, and systems integration projects.

Serves as a dedicated technology resource for advancing DTCC’s business opportunities and providing industry thought leadership for leveraging new technology. The goal of this new department is to partner internally with IT, our business and regulatory divisions and externally with clients, regulators, and fintech vendors, to help build new platforms and business models to advance DTCC’s mission to support the financial markets.

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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