Lead Project Manager

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities? Join our DTCC family, and you'll grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you'll seek challenges with flexibility and patience, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Why you'll love this job 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 are 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 costs, and bring stability and certainty to the post-trade lifecycle. 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. Our work environment favors 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 a chance to create meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a leader with vision 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 create a difference at a company that's truly one of a kind. Your Primary Responsibilities The Lead Project Manager guides assigned teams in the use of the Scrum framework including the adoption and continuous improvement of Agile practices and by removing impediments for the team to optimize their productivity. The Lead Project Manager coordinates and facilitates all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews and Demos. This position requires working closely with Product Owners to groom the Product and Release Backlogs to ensure readiness for the next Sprint. The Lead Project Manager is responsible for tracking team commitments in Story Points and Stories selected, Points and Stories delivered, and ongoing calculation of team Velocity and Sprint/Release Burndowns. The Lead Project Manager facilitates Sprint Retrospectives and captures and tracks progress against team improvement objectives. Your Responsibilities as a Project Manager The Lead Project Manager has significant responsibilities beyond supporting their assigned Teams in successful, on-time project delivery using the Scrum framework. These responsibilities include but are not limited to weekly status reporting, participating in quarterly planning, assisting in annual resource demand planning, crafting and managing assigned projects using both the DTCC Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) system and the Jira project management application, and understanding and aligning with a defined software delivery process and associated controls. Successful candidates will have significant experience in Release Planning and Release Management, Risk Identification and Risk Management, Software Delivery Quality Management, and Partner Coordination, Communication and Reporting. Understanding of and experience with project financial reporting (budget versus actuals) is essential. Regulatory reporting is an additional responsibility for applicable projects and applications. Note: Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above Talents Needed for Success:

• A minimum of five (5) years professional Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Project Management experience including project Initiation, Planning, Tracking, Delivery and Closure.
• Shown experience facilitating and delivering software development projects using the Scrum delivery framework and all associated ceremonies.
• Demonstrated experience in Agile concepts including Backlog creation and management, Agile requirements creation, estimation and management, and Scrum metrics and information radiators (Velocity and Burndown/Burnup charts).
• Demonstrated experience with Release Planning and Management, Risk and Issue Identification and Management, Software Development Quality Management, Resource Identification and Planning, and Partner Communication (includes Status Reporting and Long-Term planning).
• Demonstrated experience with project financials tracking and management (including budget versus actuals reporting).
• Demonstrated experience with an Agile project management tool (such as Jira).
• Scrum Master certification from either the Scrum Alliance (CSM), Scrum.org (PSM I), Scaled Agile (SAFe Scrum Master) or the Project Management Institute (ACP).
• Preferred Qualifications
• A bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or Computer Information Systems.
• Experience with Jira including but not limited to crafting Stories, Epics, Defects, Tasks, Sprint Iterations, Sprint and/or Kanban Boards, Filters, Releases, Dashboards and Roadmaps.
• Experience following and aligning with a defined software delivery process and associated controls.
• Experience in IT project management using a Phased (waterfall) delivery approach.
• Experience in IT project management delivery using Kanban concepts.
• Experience with project and portfolio management tools (such as HP PPM).
• 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 working within the organizational structure of a Project Management Office (PMO).
• Familiarity with sophisticated software engineering practices including TDD (Test Driven Development) and DevOps (Development & Operations).
• Familiarity with Lean/Minimum Viable Product software development.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI).
• We offer top class training and development for you to be an asset in our organization!