Description:
GWAM Data Office is seeking a Sr IT Project Manager with a proven track record of successfully delivering Big Data initiatives. The PM will lead onshore/offshore squad(s) on various data initiatives, working with cross functional teams, delivering business value.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for driving technical projects in the Enterprise Data Lake for Global Wealth and Asset Management business
- Leads and coordinates technical projects through all phases of initiation, development, and implementation
- Works with clients to define and manage the scope, strategy, requirements, and implementation of projects
- Ensures that assigned projects are completed within budgets and schedules while meeting client business objectives
- Identifies, analyzes, mitigates, documents, and controls project risks
- Provides effective and regular communication within the project team, partners, sponsors, and management
- Identifies resource needs for the project and establishes roles, expectations, and goals with team members
- Drives the assessment, management, and mitigation of project risks that impede successful project delivery
- Reports on and manages project resource tracking and budgets for project area
- Understands nature of impact and builds lessons learned for future delivery
- Strong contributor able to enable others within immediate team
What motivates you?
- You obsess about customers, listen, engage and act for their benefit.
- You think big, with curiosity to discover ways to use your agile approach and enable business outcomes.
- You thrive in teams and enjoy getting things done together.
- You take ownership and build solutions, focusing on what matters.
- You do what is right, work with integrity and speak up.
- You share your humanity, helping us build a diverse and inclusive work environment for everyone.
What we are looking for
- Minimum 5+ years of hands-on experience in Project Management
- Has expertise in leading iterative and agile initiatives; PMP or CSM designation would be an asset
- Experience leading Big Data initiatives with exposure to Cloud technology
- Ability to interact with both technical and non-technical terms
- Has experience in collaborating and partnering with programmers, database admins, system engineers and architects, network engineers, vendor SMEs across a global, distributed environment
- Solid track record of leading and delivering large scale IT projects involving cross functional IT teams and business partners
- Solid track record of effective monitoring and reporting project updates, risks and critical issues
- Strong verbal and written communication; able to effectively articulate technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes to technical and non-technical audience
- Demonstrates skill, and strong interpersonal skills for the role across the project
- Use knowledge of the field and the market to suggest alternate approach options to leadership based on current project obstacles and objectives
- High standard of work within the project applying both skills and experience
- Constantly learns from both success and failure
- Good organizational and problem-solving abilities that enable you to lead through creative abrasion
- Knowledge of corporate function processes and capabilities
- Strong problem-solving skills, copes with sophisticated situations using both skills and experience to lead to the right outcome
- Experience working with onshore and offshore teams and vendors
- Capital markets and asset management experience