Principal IT Project Manager / Scrum Master

Job Description

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development?

At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We're committed to helping our employees grow and succeed.

We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

Pay and Benefits :

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal / Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible / hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

The Impact you will have in this role :

The Principal Project Manager / Scrum Master coordinates and communicates all multi-functional activities related to the successful production delivery of multiple, sophisticated IT projects to support DTCC's businesses.

Your Primary Responsibilities :

• Responsible for the execution of large, sophisticated project or multiple mid-sized projects.
• Lead multi-functional team(s) to meet the success criteria for assigned projects.
• Actively manage and complete overall project delivery plans, which includes schedule, breakthroughs, critical path and delivery expectations.
• Negotiate time, scope, resources with project sponsors and functional managers to ensure timely result of each project.
• Coordinate project team meetings and communications and publish meeting minutes. Radiate information between project team and collaborators to ensure alignment.
• Build relationships and influence key partners
• Prepare materials for Executive meetings such as Steering Committees Meetings.
• Identify, document and manage project issues and risks; Mitigate or resolve. Partner concern to management are to be rare exceptions.
• Proactively identify, understand and address intra-project and inter-project dependencies.

NOTE : The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above.

Qualifications :

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred and / or equivalent experience.
• 6 years of managing IT projects / programs / portfolios, including budget and prioritization

Talents Needed for Success :

• Experience in the financial services industry is highly preferred.
• Experience as a Business Analyst / Systems Analyst, SCRUM Master,
• Product Manager, ideally, someone who has moved through the development lifecycle in experience across multiple trends in technology.
• Strong and effective communication skills required - written, verbal and presentation; ability to communicate technical topics to a non-technical audience.
• Strong stakeholder management and partnering skills.
• Delivery-focused, result-oriented leadership style
• Experience managing vendors to procure staffing, licenses, tools, and other consulting services.
• Experience working in innovative environment.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification and / or equivalent
• Program Management Professional (PGMP) Certification

The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Please contact us to request accommodation.

About Us

DTCC safeguards the financial markets and helps them run efficiently, in times of prosperity and crisis. We are uniquely positioned at the center of global trading activity, processing over 100 million financial transactions every day, pioneering industry-wide, post-trade solutions and maintaining multiple data and operating centers worldwide.

From where we stand, we can anticipate the industry's needs and we're working to continually improve the world's most resilient, secure and efficient market infrastructure.

Our employees are driven to deliver innovative technologies that improve efficiency, lower cost and bring stability and certainty to the post-trade lifecycle.

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork.

When you join our team, you'll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries.

A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It's the chance to make a difference at a company that's truly one of a kind.

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About the Team

Serves as a dedicated technology resource for advancing DTCC's business opportunities and providing industry thought leadership for leveraging new technology.

The goal of this new department is to partner internally with IT, our business and regulatory divisions and externally with clients, regulators, and fintech vendors, to help build new platforms and business models to advance DTCC's mission to support the financial markets.