Sr. Program/ Portfolio Manager

W.R Rosato & Associates - Shrewsbury, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Shrewsbury, NJ

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Sr. Agile Program/Portfolio Manager will play a pivotal role in a major investment bank, focusing on the end-to-end planning and implementation of strategic initiatives. This position is designed for an individual who can manage and prioritize a portfolio of tactical projects while driving the Agile transformation across these projects. As the individual gains a deeper understanding of the organization, its products, and its stakeholders, they may also take on the role of Scrum of Scrum for selected projects, depending on the needs and their capabilities. In this role, the manager will be responsible for overseeing a portfolio of projects, continuously monitoring project status, dependencies, and delivery progress. They will contribute to defining the roadmap for strategic initiatives and products, support the annual budgeting process, and provide financial management for the program and project portfolio. The manager will ensure the full adoption of tools such as Jira and Confluence, working closely with Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Development Teams, and other stakeholders to facilitate project delivery and remove any impediments that may arise. The Sr. Agile Program/Portfolio Manager will provide leadership through meaningful performance metrics and status reports derived from Jira dashboards and other tools. They will proactively identify risks, drive timely mitigation strategies, and escalate issues to management as necessary. Additionally, the manager will interface with the Corporate Technology central PMO and may assume the Scrum of Scrum role for scaled Agile projects. They will enable and support the transition from Waterfall to Agile SDLC methodologies, coaching developers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and senior stakeholders in Agile practices such as Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile. The role also involves contributing to the definition and implementation of new key performance metrics and project reporting across the division, leveraging Confluence and SharePoint as primary collaboration tools. The manager will drive high-quality deliverables across the complete SDLC and coordinate audits as needed. Mentoring and coaching junior members of the PMO team will also be a key responsibility, ensuring the development of future leaders within the organization.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of projects monitoring project status, cross projects dependencies, and delivery progress on an ongoing basis.
• Contribute to defining the roadmap for strategic initiatives/products.
• Support annual budgeting process and provide program and project portfolio financial management.
• Ensure full adoption of Jira, Confluence and other designated tools.
• Work closely with Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Development Teams and other stakeholders to facilitate delivery and remove impediments.
• Provide leadership with meaningful performance metrics and status reports based on Jira dashboards and other tools.
• Identify risks proactively, drive timely mitigation, and escalate to management appropriately.
• Interface with the Corporate Technology central PMO.
• Potentially assume the Scrum of Scrum role for scaled Agile projects.
• Enable, support and accelerate the transition from Waterfall to Agile SDLC (Scrum, Kanban).
• Coach Developers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners and senior stakeholders in Agile practices (Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile).
• Contribute to the definition and implementation of new key performance metrics and project reporting across DAC.
• Leverage Confluence and SharePoint as main collaboration tools.
• Drive high quality of all deliverables across complete SDLC.
• Coordinate and facilitate audits as needed.
• Mentor and coach junior members of the PMO team.

Requirements

• Minimum of 7+ years of combined project management, scrum master and development work experience required, with at least 5 years using Agile methodologies.
• Proven experience as Scrum Master required, Scrum of Scrum preferred.
• Experience with Scaled Agile preferred.
• Experience in supporting transition from Waterfall to Agile preferred.
• Proven experience with global projects in multiple technologies, and functions.
• Advanced knowledge of SharePoint and Confluence, including site management, forms, workflow, templates and reports automations preferred.
• Advanced knowledge and proven expertise in project management tools such as Clarity, Jira, HP ALM, Microsoft Project, and Excel required.
• Highly motivated team player with excellent analytical, written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to be tactful yet assertive. Strong collaboration and negotiation skills.
• Comfortable speaking and presenting project status.
• Ability to develop strong client and working relationships with the team is a must.
• Ability to be flexible, follow tight deadlines, organize and prioritize work.
• Experience in IT Business management functions.
• Technical application development experience strongly preferred.
• Scrum Certification is Preferred, Coaching experience a plus, PMP or Prince Certification a plus.
• Experience in Risk and Finance Technology with domain knowledge across asset classes preferred.
• Bachelor degree required, Master preferred, Computer Science or a related Information Technology field preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• Scrum Certification is Preferred
• Coaching experience a plus
• PMP or Prince Certification a plus
• Experience in Risk and Finance Technology with domain knowledge across asset classes preferred.