Senior Manager, Project Management (Technical Portfolio Lead)

Capital One•McLean, VA

2d•$161,500 - $202,800

About The Position

Senior Manager, Project Management (Technical Portfolio Lead) Intelligent Foundations & Experiences, IFX, Delivery Enablement Office is seeking a highly organized and self-motivated Sr. Manager, Project Management (Technical Portfolio Lead) to join the team. In this role, you will have unique visibility into and influence over IFX’s most strategic and complex platform operations, impacting multiple lines of business. The Technical Portfolio Lead (TPL) is responsible for ensuring the planned and predictable flow of value within a steady-state collection of products, platforms, and/or ASVs. This role supports our engineering leaders, Product Managers and technology teams in refining delivery methods and proactive planning practices, utilizing data-based insights and industry best practices. The TPL consults on and drives delivery transformation through influence, education, analytics, strong communication, and exemplary change management. The TPL is allocated long-term to a specific set of teams and platforms within a Technology tower. They are dedicated to supporting the evolution of delivery practices, governing current delivery standards, and strategically allocating resources for multiple delivery team requests. The TPL ensures broad visibility of achievements and centralizes risk/impediment tracking for the steady-state portfolio of work, inclusive and in collaboration with Technical Program Managers (TPMs) and Project Managers leading specific initiatives. The TPL also ensures compliance with enterprise and cross-LOB standards. A successful TPL must remain outcome/delivery focused; utilizing bandwidth to help examine/refine existing processes practices and enable high value continuous improvement based on real-time intelligent insights. This is an exciting opportunity for a well-rounded candidate to boldly model the future of technical delivery excellence. What you’ll do: Delivery Optimization Advise on optimized methods and standards for delivery practices, tooling and reporting that minimizes administrative overhead and increases actionable insights to drive value creation. Enable, govern and launch these standards. Refine steady-state delivery practices, artifacts and routines to optimize the building of high quality software, faster (in collaboration with cross-functional leadership). Define, measure, track and report out overall tower/domain/platform health metrics. Ensure traceability of commitments, progress and impediments, across all types of work Govern, enable and ensure alignment with enterprise and LOB delivery standards (process, artifacts, tooling and data) Strategic Alignment Ensure all work within the tower directly supports strategic goals and key priorities of the tower’s services and platforms. This includes providing clear insights into tower performance to support and empower tower leaders. Partner with Engineering & Product leaders to develop and maintain comprehensive 12-month tower roadmaps, incorporating all types of work based on historical capacity. Collaborate with Engineering leadership to drive prioritization decisions based on data, including impact analysis and trade-off considerations. Regularly analyze and report on tower investment allocation levels, feature costs, and potential impacts to inform prioritization decisions for tower leadership. Portfolio Governance Publish, maintain and align unified listing of active and future efforts, ensuring regular and consistent status updates with minimal administrative overhead Facilitate the scheduling of work outside of key programs including cross-functional efforts, with impact and sizing discussions Drive delivery of the tower/domain/platform roadmaps forward. Identify, escalate and personally mitigate risks and impediments to on-time delivery of high quality solutions Partner with TPMs, Project Managers, Product Managers and Engineering Leaders on the creation, publication and refinement of portfolio delivery best practices including but not limited to stakeholder management, dependency management, risk management, communication planning as well as scope decomposition/refinement

Requirements

Strong portfolio, project, and program management and organizational skills with meticulous attention to detail
Proven experience optimizing and implementing complex portfolio operating models (including routines, artifacts and methods) in a repeatable and sustainable way
Known for your strong quantitative background to support data-informed decision making
Can work autonomously and knows when to escalate in a timely manner with direct manager and leadership
Confident to champion unpopular ideas even with more senior leaders
Ability to navigate ambiguous situations
Collaborative, team player attitude with the ability to navigate and influence the organization
Executive communication skills that can tell the story that will positively drive transformational change
Bachelor’s Degree or Military experience
At least 8 Years of Project Management experience
At least 1 Year of People Management experience

Nice To Haves

Masters / MBA degree
9+ years of Project Management experience
5+ years of complex Portfolio Management experience
PMP, Lean, Agile or Six Sigma certification
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Strong problem solving and influencing skills
Work experience achieving results with complex projects

Responsibilities

Advise on optimized methods and standards for delivery practices, tooling and reporting that minimizes administrative overhead and increases actionable insights to drive value creation.
Enable, govern and launch these standards.
Refine steady-state delivery practices, artifacts and routines to optimize the building of high quality software, faster (in collaboration with cross-functional leadership).
Define, measure, track and report out overall tower/domain/platform health metrics.
Ensure traceability of commitments, progress and impediments, across all types of work
Govern, enable and ensure alignment with enterprise and LOB delivery standards (process, artifacts, tooling and data)
Ensure all work within the tower directly supports strategic goals and key priorities of the tower’s services and platforms.
Partner with Engineering & Product leaders to develop and maintain comprehensive 12-month tower roadmaps, incorporating all types of work based on historical capacity.
Collaborate with Engineering leadership to drive prioritization decisions based on data, including impact analysis and trade-off considerations.
Regularly analyze and report on tower investment allocation levels, feature costs, and potential impacts to inform prioritization decisions for tower leadership.
Publish, maintain and align unified listing of active and future efforts, ensuring regular and consistent status updates with minimal administrative overhead
Facilitate the scheduling of work outside of key programs including cross-functional efforts, with impact and sizing discussions
Drive delivery of the tower/domain/platform roadmaps forward.
Identify, escalate and personally mitigate risks and impediments to on-time delivery of high quality solutions
Partner with TPMs, Project Managers, Product Managers and Engineering Leaders on the creation, publication and refinement of portfolio delivery best practices including but not limited to stakeholder management, dependency management, risk management, communication planning as well as scope decomposition/refinement

Benefits

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI).
Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.
Learn more at the Capital One Careers website .
Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

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