IT Project Technical Lead - Vice President

Description

This Vice President level technology role sits in the Technology Project Management job family and is a full-time position.

The company's Tech team helps shape global finance. Every day, $5 trillion passes through its network, and it does business in 180+ countries at a scale few organisations reach. The team builds AI tools and systems that influence markets and economies, with mentorship, continuous learning and flexibility on offer.

Project Eirene is changing how the company tracks and manages software currency and vulnerabilities across its technology estate. Through more automation and modern engineering practices, releases are becoming faster and safer, and keeping software up to date is becoming more sustainable.

In this role you will build a deep understanding of Project Eirene and of other deliverables and initiatives across several Technology organisations. You will support the CIO Central program governance team and technology delivery teams, working with Program and Technology Leads, Application Owners and Remediation Leads.

Responsibilities

• Lead a varied team spread across several time zones, supporting critical programs and deliverables.
• Make sure every stakeholder is identified and brought into scope definition.
• Keep track of the program schedule and key milestones, and take in regular updates.
• Run several projects at once.
• Own project goals and use your expertise to give the project team a shared sense of purpose.
• Create new challenges and push for business results.
• Apply established PMO practice to build project plans that suit stakeholder and customer needs and deliver desired outcomes within budget.
• Define, teach and enforce sound project management practice, including breaking complex, interdependent work into documented, monitored and controlled tasks and sub-tasks.
• Identify where an approach needs changing and adjust it to each project's context and constraints.
• State problems clearly, bring the right people together to solve them, and recognise when a problem is properly resolved and can be closed.

Requirements

• Senior program management experience delivering high-value projects.
• Solid grasp of project and program management techniques and expectations.
• Broad experience running large programs across several disciplines.
• Skill in ranking urgent issues and information so decisions get made efficiently, with oversight and guidance for the highest-priority projects.
• Able to build project plans and manage individual deadlines and goals.
• Working knowledge of project metrics, including collecting, reporting, analysing trends and creating them.
• Able to spot issues, generate solutions and choose suitable options using basic root cause analysis.
• Comprehensive understanding of the direct function and the wider Technology and Business areas.
• Strong negotiation, influencing and stakeholder management skills to secure key objectives and program outcomes.
• Beneficial: proven ability to solve complex challenges and remove barriers, understanding both internal and external factors.
• Beneficial: strong MS Office skills, especially PowerPoint presentations.
• Beneficial: extensive experience with project management tools.
• Beneficial: experience running Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives and backlog refinement.
• Beneficial: monitoring sprint progress and making sure delivery commitments are met.
• Beneficial: careful follow-up, attention to detail, ability to juggle several tasks, leadership, teamwork, interpersonal skills, flexibility and analytical strength.
• Beneficial: strong written and verbal communication.
• Beneficial: ability to build rapport and effective relationships across functions, regions and management levels.
• Other duties may be assigned as needed.

Conditions

Hybrid working, with up to 2 days a week working from home.

Business casual workplace.

Competitive base salary, reviewed annually.

The company is an equal opportunity employer.

Benefits

• 27 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Discretionary annual performance-related bonus.
• Private medical care and life insurance.
• Employee assistance program.
• Pension plan.
• Paid parental leave.
• Discounts for employees, their family and friends.
• Access to a range of learning and development resources.