Senior Manager, Project Management (Enterprise Platforms Technology)

Capital One • McLean, VA

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About The Position

Senior Manager, Project Management (Enterprise Platforms Technology) Capital One, a Fortune 500 company and one of the nation’s top 10 banks, offers a broad spectrum of financial products and services to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients. Our goal is to create one of the nation’s great banks, and we have the necessary ingredients: a strong balance sheet, resilient businesses, a massive customer franchise, strong analytical capabilities, and great people. We nurture a work environment where people with a variety of thoughts, ideas and backgrounds, guided by our shared Values, come together to make Capital One a great company – and a great place to work. As a Senior Manager, Project Manager, serving in the Program Manager (PgM) role on EPTech, you will drive strategy and coordinate execution on high priority projects for the company across the Enterprise Platforms Tech line of business. As part of this horizontal team, you will partner with different stakeholders to clarify objectives, align priorities, and deliver results that have a direct impact on the company’s bottom line. This role requires excellent organizational, leadership and communication skills. This individual will have a high level of exposure across lines of business and the opportunity to work with tech leaders to create and implement innovative solutions, while mitigating potential risks to our technology ecosystem. General Responsibilities: Leverage problem solving and influence skills to lead moderate to large complex projects and programs. Design and manage project plans in a complex dynamic environment, adjusting to changing requirements. Partner with engineering and product leaders to develop and maintain a comprehensive and unified listing of active and future roadmap intent, enabling regular status updates with minimal administrative overhead. Ensure all work within the tower directly supports defined strategic goals and key priorities of the tower’s services and platforms. This includes providing clear insights into tower performance and capacity allocations to support and empower tower leaders. Advise on optimized methods and standards for delivery practices, processes, tooling and reporting that minimizes administrative overhead and increases actionable insights to drive value creation. Enable, govern and launch these standards. Display a passion for coaching and developing a team of associates through their leadership style Initial Focus Areas: Partner with product and tech leads to develop a centralized and local intake process to balance new intent requests against existing roadmap and capacity requirements. Partner with senior leaders to define metrics and track progress for OKRs, reporting risks and dependencies as needed to ensure successful delivery. Set and govern standards across the line of business to ensure visibility of "who is working on what”.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or Military experience
• At least 8 years of Project Management experience
• At least 2 years of Microsoft Office or Google Suite experience

Nice To Haves

• Masters / MBA degree
• 9+ years of Project Management experience
• 3+ years of complex Portfolio Management experience
• 2+ years of experience in People Management
• 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

• Leverage problem solving and influence skills to lead moderate to large complex projects and programs.
• Design and manage project plans in a complex dynamic environment, adjusting to changing requirements.
• Partner with engineering and product leaders to develop and maintain a comprehensive and unified listing of active and future roadmap intent, enabling regular status updates with minimal administrative overhead.
• Ensure all work within the tower directly supports defined strategic goals and key priorities of the tower’s services and platforms. This includes providing clear insights into tower performance and capacity allocations to support and empower tower leaders.
• Advise on optimized methods and standards for delivery practices, processes, tooling and reporting that minimizes administrative overhead and increases actionable insights to drive value creation. Enable, govern and launch these standards.
• Display a passion for coaching and developing a team of associates through their leadership style
• Partner with product and tech leads to develop a centralized and local intake process to balance new intent requests against existing roadmap and capacity requirements.
• Partner with senior leaders to define metrics and track progress for OKRs, reporting risks and dependencies as needed to ensure successful delivery.
• Set and govern standards across the line of business to ensure visibility of "who is working on what”.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees