Project Description
Our client is a leading global Financial Market data provider who runs several change programs to deliver high-quality software that connects Financial Markets across the globe in a real-time, high frequency, and low-latency data management chain. The projects are technically challenging in a very engaging environment making the most of cutting-edge technologies covering the domains of Real-Time, Big Data, Cloud, and Machine Learning.
Responsibilities
• Access the agile maturity of the team and organization, mentor and guide teams to improve their understanding of the scrum methodologies.
• Facilitate scrum events, such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and other ad-hoc meetings for teams.
• Oversee estimation and planning at the team and project level, providing practical forecasts for the delivery of sprints and releases.
• Act as a buffer for the team from external distractions and context-switching, track and remove impediments efficiently.
• Foster an environment that encourages collaboration and team problem-solving.
• Provide status reporting to upper-level management on projects spanning multiple teams and locations.
• Use agile managements tools (Jira, Confluence, Teams, Sharepoint) to track and report on sprint and project progress.
• Prioritize bugs and technical debt remediation alongside feature delivery by working with Product Owners, Product Managers and other key stakeholders to articulate impact to ongoing productivity, maintainability, supportability or cost
• Diligently monitor and track Cloud spend across the Rights Management estate whilst maintaining excellent Cloud hygiene to keep costs within the budget
• Ensures all impacts of dependencies are addressed in the overall project plan. Effectively work across the organization to ensure all dependent teams are aligned with the project plans and schedules
• Ability to proactively manage risk and issues for the workstream in a timely manner and have the confidence to make decisions to mitigate or resolve when required. Work closely with workstream lead to ensure RAIDS are fully documented, mitigated and escalated as required.
• Ensure reporting is provided as required on a regular basis against roadmap, plans and any performance KPI’s and OKR’s for your teams
• Providing the critical data required for the project management function to monitor and track financial health, analyzing resource requirements across multiple projects or across programmes to meet strategic goals.
Skills
Must have
• Must have agile experience
• Strong financial and resource management, working with budgets
• Extensive stakeholder management experience up to senior level, alongside the management of external vendor relationships
• Experience of working in a complex, high-paced environment with a global team
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Ability to think ‘outside of the box’, strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Current experience in managing people
• Experience of delivering technical projects
• Strong influencing skills and a positive leader
• Clear thinker with an eye for detail.
• Strong conflict resolution skill
Nice to have
• Experience in Fin Services or Investment Banking.
Languages
English: B2 Upper Intermediate
Seniority
Senior
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