Senior IT Project Lead for Wealth Investment Solutions Technology

Citi • Jersey City, NJ

1d • $163,600 - $245,400 • Onsite

About The Position

The Program Lead is accountable for management of complex/critical/large professional disciplinary areas. Leads and directs a team of professionals. Requires a comprehensive understanding of multiple areas within a function and how they interact in order to achieve the objectives of the function. Applies in-depth understanding of the business impact of technical contributions. Strong commercial awareness is a necessity. Generally accountable for delivery of a full range of services to one or more businesses/ geographic regions. Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level. Some external communication may be necessary. Accountable for the end results of an area. Exercises control over resources, policy formulation and planning. Primarily affects a sub-function. Involved in short- to medium-term planning.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or a related field.
• Hands on experience (8+ years) leading program management function and/or technical teams in areas like Investments, Trades, Banking, Lending, trust, Data, Compliance etc. and good understanding of Operations.
• 12+ years’ experience in enterprise level program management and delivery engineering products at scale.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; Data driven and results oriented.
• Exceptional strategic analysis, problem solving, issue resolution and decision-making skill.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills backed by a strong business and technical vision.
• Expert knowledge of Agile frameworks like SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, and familiarity with Jira and Confluence tools.
• Good understanding of end-to-end banking knowledge including Operations, Compliance and Audit.
• Proven ability to operate in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills necessary to influence teams to deliver in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Actively encourage the development of your managers and your technical staff while continuously raising the bar on performance and technical depth.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage Private bank Lending, Banking and Trust, APAC Data BOW, Demand and Infra management, On-Boarding, OPS and W@W.
• Drive the delivery of Global Wealth Management strategy for Investments, Trades, Banking, Lending, trust, Data and Compliance.
• Own the delivery of programs that provide for a growing digital presence and offerings for wealth management customers.
• Manage and execute operating model routines.
• Drive innovation that people love and be boundary-less in seeking solutions, eliminating redundancy and driving execution excellence.
• Build your own scorecard to continuously monitor capacity, demand, execution, delivery, and hygiene via key performance indicators including capacity, demand, backlog, velocity, quality, project throughput, spend, regulatory compliance, and application security.
• Ensure execution aligns with all regulatory requirements while continuously working to simplify and to automate the necessary and auditable “paperwork” and processes.
• Communicate with business, technology, audit, risk, fraud, and finance executives, and build relationships with them.
• Establish collaborative and productive relationships with product management, governance, UX design, vendors and other supporting teams.
• Foster an environment of engineering excellence and innovation.
• Ensure that all deliverables are compliant to respective central banks regulatory requirements.
• Front Internal Audit for all the deliverables under your realms.
• Be the strategic partner and advisor to the Business and Technology heads for Wealth Management that includes all facets like Investments, Trades, Banking, Lending, trust, Data and Compliance.
• Ensure well laid out roadmaps and execution plans for entire book of work for projects / programs under your realms.
• Obsess about building and shipping great products for our customers with excellence.
• Manage from the front, prioritize, and drive the bigger mission forward by translating vision into results.
• Accountable for driving teams inside and outside of your organization to deliver the expected results.
• Focus on the key business outcomes and deliver them with quality and in a timely fashion.
• Drive disciplined execution with high quality and insist on high standards.
• Lead your teams to deliver high quality products, services, and processes.
• Deliver results while maintaining highest level of quality and ensuring timely adherence to software development lifecycle standards.
• Drive innovation that people love and be boundary-less in seeking solutions.
• Establish credibility and rapport with senior executives and technical and non-technical team members alike.
• Build and lead an organization with customer focus and effective communication with a focus on decisive, fast-moving solutions, quick and constructive resolutions to conflicts, and a “no barriers” mentality.
• Manage, mentor and grow the PM leaders of the future.
• Build and lead a team of PM’s that are highly passionate, motivated and smart problem solvers to design future state products and technology solutions.
• Structure an organization and optimize it for execution, including attracting top tier talent and filing out gaps in the existing team quickly to accommodate growth.
• Partner with fellow PM leaders and heads to ensure alignment and standardization in ways of working.
• Drive agility, excellence and simplification in ways of working.
• Measure and improve efficiency and effectiveness of processes that are working well and build the next level of improvements, set standards for deployments at scale, infrastructure reliability, security, and scalability.
• Identify and act upon unique insights and apply them to solve unmet needs and an expertise leveraging/synthesizing competitor, emerging technology, and other marketplace trends to draw out implications to support the team's overall mission and goals.
• Transform the organization into one that drives speed to market and delivers value for our customers in an agile operating model.
• Champion a culture of high standards, pushes for progress, embraces change and challenges the status quo.
• Continue to improve the engineering culture across all tech functions.
• Serve as an evangelist for the team and overall culture, both internally and externally.
• Communicate business strategy and goals and how they align to the team’s work.
• Provide transparent frequent updates, manage sponsor expectations, and keep all stakeholders informed on Book of Work progress.
• Create a culture of transparency and trust.

Benefits

• medical, dental & vision coverage
• 401(k)
• life, accident, and disability insurance
• wellness programs
• paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior