Capital Markets Technology Project Manager

Axiom Path • Charlotte, NC

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Capital Markets Technology Project Manager will own major initiatives from business case and funding approval through execution and completion within a growing global financial-services technology organization. The role supports complex capital markets initiatives and partners with senior business leaders, technology organizations, product teams, and delivery groups to ensure investments are planned, funded, governed, resourced, and communicated. The environment combines Agile technology execution with disciplined enterprise portfolio management, financial governance, and executive reporting.

The position is a 12-month W2 contract with intent to convert based on business need and performance. It follows a hybrid schedule in Charlotte, North Carolina, with onsite work every Monday and Thursday. The role offers exposure to senior business and technology leadership in a major institutional banking environment.

Requirements

• 10+ years of project or program management experience within Capital Markets, Investment Banking, Institutional Banking, or financial-services technology.
• Proven ownership of project financials, funding, resource planning, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, governance, and executive reporting.
• Hands-on experience with an enterprise portfolio-management platform such as Planview, Broadcom Clarity PPM, ServiceNow SPM, Microsoft Project Online / Project for the Web with Power Platform, or a genuinely comparable enterprise PPM solution.
• Strong working knowledge of Agile technology delivery and the ability to operate directly with delivery teams.
• Hands-on familiarity with sprint planning, backlog refinement, impediment management, retrospectives, Agile metrics, Jira, and coordination across Product Owners and technology teams.
• Ability to move comfortably between portfolio-level governance and team-level delivery execution.
• Strong Capital Markets domain knowledge and ability to understand the business purpose behind technology initiatives.
• Excellent written and verbal executive communication, strong time management, and deadline ownership.

Responsibilities

• Own major Capital Markets Technology initiatives from business case and funding approval through execution and completion.
• Develop and maintain project financials, resource and capacity plans, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, and executive reporting.
• Use enterprise portfolio-management platforms to maintain project and portfolio health, demand, resource allocation, governance, and strategic alignment.
• Partner with business portfolio managers, technology leaders, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and delivery teams.
• Translate Agile delivery activity into concise milestone-, financial-, phase-, and risk-based executive reporting.
• Prepare business cases, steering materials, meeting minutes, status reports, roadmaps, governance documentation, and executive presentations.
• Maintain disciplined weekly and biweekly reporting cadences with minimal oversight.
• Step into Scrum Master responsibilities when required.

Benefits

• Opportunity to support a growing Capital Markets Technology organization and manage high-visibility enterprise initiatives.
• Exposure to senior business and technology leadership across a major institutional banking environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed