IT Program Manager

$120,016 - $136,656/Yr

Genesis10 - Jersey City, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Jersey City, NJ

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The IT Program Manager will support the Regulatory Portfolio for the Counterparty Credit Risk Technology team within the financial industry. This role involves close collaboration with senior business and technology managers, providing direction to project managers, and ensuring the success of various projects within the program. The position is contract-based and requires adaptability in a fast-paced environment with frequent release cycles.

Responsibilities

• Support the Regulatory Portfolio for the Counterparty Credit Risk Technology team.
• Collaborate closely with senior business and technology managers in the New York time zone.
• Provide direction and guidance to project managers to ensure the success of the work within the program.

Requirements

• Flexible, hardworking, and 'can do' attitude; comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with frequent release cycles and rapidly changing priorities.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to effectively communicate within a multi-disciplined team, across multiple locations and time zones, and to interact with demanding business users.
• Strong ownership and follow through.
• Strong project management and organization skills, attention to details.
• Familiarity with principles of scaled agile delivery, PI planning, and agile scrum methodology.
• Able to remove obstacles and influence others to move projects forward.
• Strong financial markets product knowledge (any asset class).
• Excellent technical skills; SQL, MS Excel, Jira, MS Project, SharePoint, Visio, MS PowerPoint, MS Word.
• Broad understanding of all the projects within the program and be able to ensure release timelines and milestones are met.
• MySQL.

Nice-to-haves

• Computer Engineering/Financial Degree.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Experience with VaR, Risk Analytics.
• Exposure to financial/product control functions within a bank.
• Exposure to Program Project Risk Tool (PPRT).
• Background in working closely with development teams.

Benefits

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average).
• Behavioral Health Platform.
• Medical, Dental, Vision.
• Health Savings Account.
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident).
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance.
• 401K.
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities).
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF).
• Remote opportunities available.