Senior Technical Program Manager

LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY

SUMMARY

Cross Divisional & E-Trade Integration within Wealth Management Technology is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager with Agile Scrum experience and extensive experience in software engineering, to join a dynamic team of technology pioneers. You will be leading all aspects of several new products and enhancements from ideation through roll outs in close partnership with product management. 

Your software engineering experience, collaborative approach, ability to identify challenges as opportunities teamed with energy and excitement to coach, drive, and facilitate will deliver best in class financial services products to the market.

Key Attributes:

* Seeking a self-starter who possesses good project management principles and familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies

* Able to quickly adapt and operate in a very fast-pace environment

* Great interpersonal skills in the areas of communications, planning, and conflict resolution

* The ability to quickly develop relationships and be an unbiased collaborative partner across multiple product streams

* Knowledge, experience, and strong understanding of project-related financial management

* Eagerness to engage with stakeholders, build strong allies, and drive consensus among cross-functional teams

* Manages the constraints of projects to control scope and schedule

* Effective agile scaled delivery planning with a focus on managing external dependencies and coordinated release planning

* Collaborative and coaching approach to helping technology and product teams adapt and mature agile delivery of technology solutions

Areas of Responsibility

* Manages projects using the Agile/Scrum methodology within the Operations and Brokerage space

* Provide accurate status reporting to the Project Portfolio Manager, Executive Management, Project Stakeholders

* Facilitate backlog grooming sessions, sprint planning sessions, daily scrums, and retrospectives

* Develops and maintains all project documentation required for successful delivery of the project, and for records retention purposes in accordance with the PMO's best practices and guidelines

* Identifies and actively manages project risk according to impact and probability, escalating when necessary to management

* Establishes and maintains positive, working relationships with peers, team members, project stakeholders, resources, and executive staff

* Knowledgeable of project management tools; MS Visio, MS Project, JIRA, Confluence, and SharePoint

Desired Qualifications:

* 7+ years of Agile/Scrum experience managing small to mid-sized projects

* Bachelor of Science (B.S) Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or MIS

* Certified Scrum Master (CSM)* Project Management Professional (PMI's PMP) desired but not required