Agile Project Manager

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation•New York, NY

1d•$181,000 - $227,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a highly skilled Agile Project Manager to oversee and optimize program-level delivery using Agile ways of working across our Capital Markets Front Office Technology organization. This role is responsible for driving execution across a portfolio of strategic technology initiatives that support front-office business objectives. The Agile Project Manager will lead through influence, partnering with Technology, Product, Trading, Sales, Quantitative Research, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Infrastructure teams to ensure the successful delivery of complex initiatives. The successful candidate will establish effective governance, manage dependencies and risks, facilitate planning and prioritization activities, and provide transparency into program execution. The role serves as a trusted advisor to business and technology stakeholders, ensuring that technology investments are aligned with strategic objectives, regulatory requirements, and organizational priorities. The Agile Project Manager is responsible for managing the end-to-end delivery of multiple strategic technology initiatives across the Capital Markets Front Office portfolio and promotes continuous improvement by leveraging Agile metrics and delivery insight. As a senior individual contributor, this role drives program execution through influence, collaboration, and stakeholder management rather than direct people management. The role establishes and maintains Agile governance frameworks, delivery plans, milestone tracking, dependency management processes, and status reporting mechanisms to support successful execution. The individual works closely with stakeholders to coordinate resources, monitor program health, manage budget impacts, and resolve delivery challenges. The Agile Project Manager ensures that risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions are actively managed and escalated, when necessary, while maintaining consistency in delivery standards, reporting practices, and communication across all workstreams and promotes alignment across business and technology teams to achieve strategic outcomes. The Agile Project Manager builds strong partnerships with Front Office business leaders, product owners, traders, sales teams, and technology leadership to align on strategic objectives, priorities, timelines, and target outcomes. This role promotes collaboration, transparency, and accountability across cross-functional teams, ensuring stakeholders remain informed and engaged throughout the delivery lifecycle. The individual facilitates decision-making, manages competing priorities, and helps resolve conflicts through effective communication and stakeholder engagement. The Agile Project Manager serves as a trusted partner to senior management by providing clear delivery insights, risk assessments, and recommendations that support informed business decisions and successful program execution Demonstrate a strong awareness of business stakeholder requirements and organizational context by influencing program management agenda and delivering complete, timely and sustainable program outcomes. Leverage excellent organizational skills to establish standard framework and approach for PMO setup. Employ communication skills to articulate a clear vision of program management deliverables across entire portfolio of divisional or regional delivery. Encourage buy-in across all stakeholder groups, including business leadership, process owners and infrastructure partners. Canvas senior stakeholders on a continuous basis to solicit feedback on end state objectives. Leverage stakeholder insights to direct modifications and enhancements to program plans where appropriate. Engage Six Sigma, lean and/or agile techniques as appropriate.

Requirements

At least 10 years of experience in project management, program management, Agile delivery, or portfolio management roles.
Strong understanding of Agile methodologies including Scrum, SAFe, and Lean delivery practices.
Strong understanding of governance frameworks, stakeholder management, dependency management, and delivery reporting.
Strong executive communication skills.
Proven ability to coordinate complex cross-functional initiatives.

Nice To Haves

Experience delivering Front Office technology initiatives within Capital Markets, Electronic Trading, Fixed Income, Credit, Derivatives, or related business domains is highly desirable.
Experience with enterprise delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, Advanced Roadmaps, ServiceNow SPM, or similar platforms is preferred.

Responsibilities

Oversee and optimize program-level delivery using Agile ways of working across Capital Markets Front Office Technology.
Drive execution across a portfolio of strategic technology initiatives supporting front-office business objectives.
Lead through influence, partnering with various teams (Technology, Product, Trading, Sales, Quantitative Research, Operations, Risk, Compliance, Infrastructure) to ensure successful delivery of complex initiatives.
Establish effective governance, manage dependencies and risks, facilitate planning and prioritization, and provide transparency into program execution.
Serve as a trusted advisor to business and technology stakeholders, ensuring technology investments align with strategic objectives, regulatory requirements, and organizational priorities.
Manage the end-to-end delivery of multiple strategic technology initiatives.
Promote continuous improvement by leveraging Agile metrics and delivery insight.
Establish and maintain Agile governance frameworks, delivery plans, milestone tracking, dependency management processes, and status reporting mechanisms.
Coordinate resources, monitor program health, manage budget impacts, and resolve delivery challenges.
Ensure risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions are actively managed and escalated.
Maintain consistency in delivery standards, reporting practices, and communication across all workstreams.
Promote alignment across business and technology teams to achieve strategic outcomes.
Build strong partnerships with Front Office business leaders, product owners, traders, sales teams, and technology leadership.
Facilitate decision-making, manage competing priorities, and resolve conflicts.
Provide clear delivery insights, risk assessments, and recommendations to senior management.
Influence the program management agenda and deliver complete, timely, and sustainable program outcomes.
Establish a standard framework and approach for PMO setup.
Articulate a clear vision of program management deliverables across the portfolio.
Encourage buy-in across all stakeholder groups.
Solicit feedback on end-state objectives from senior stakeholders.
Direct modifications and enhancements to program plans based on stakeholder insights.
Engage Six Sigma, lean, and/or agile techniques as appropriate.