Job Description

Story Behind the Need:

• Business group: GWRT - Global Capital Markets Technology
• Project: Structured Notes Project - Reconciliation/TBricks/Zeus
• Reason for request: PM Backfill Required

Candidate Value Proposition:

• The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with a variety of technologies, working with the trading desk, mid-office personnel, architecture, etc.

Typical Day in Role:

• Hands-on management of meetings, status reports, reporting to steering committees and working groups
• Leading an agile team and holding scrum meetings
• Facilitating KPIs and measuring productivity within the team
• Reporting project status, roadblocks and milestones to the project stakeholder and sponsors throughout the course of the project
• Assist in some BA duties (creating flow-charts, diagrams, documentation, etc.)
• Main scope would be to manage the following three projects: Reconciliation, TBricks, and Zeus
• May also assist on other smaller projects
• Involved in network planning, hardware planning and architecture
• Communicating with vendors, main stakeholders on the trading desk, system architects, development staff, QAs, BAs, and other PMs.
• Providing guidance to the project team to ensure efforts are aligned to the project delivery goal.
• Define project control processes, stakeholder management processes, and project gating documents in adherence to client's EPMO standards. Focus on Governance processes, ensuring projects are moving through the appropriate channels and drive the initiatives

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 7+ years' experience as a project manager in developing solutions within Capital Markets
• Experience with a combination of both infrastructure and application development projects
• Proven expertise delivering multiple small projects in a dynamic environment

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Exposure to projects related to Kafka/NiFi and Kubernetes
• Knowledge of mid-office and settlement processes

Soft Skills:

• Strong communication is required
• Proactive and self-driven
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment is required

Best vs Average:

• Understand technology and how to implement it. The successful candidate would have good business acumen, as well as technical proficiency to drive successful delivery.
• The best candidate would also have experience driving projects in an Agile Framework. Needs to be proactive and able to provide solutions, as well as react to problems.

Degrees or certifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required
• PMI/PMP designations are an asset

Candidate Review & Selection:

• Structure and Format: Two rounds, MS Teams Interviews

Job Details

9653

Contract

6 months

Toronto