Technical Project Manager - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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About The Department
Developer Engineering is a new function within ICG Technology.

Our mission is to make it easy and enjoyable for software engineering teams to go from a business idea to delivering an innovative product solution.

The main goals are to improve and upgrade ourtools, streamline our processes, automate and strengthen our controls, and help development teams adopt modern working methods.

This new initiative represents a critical investment in our future development capability.

We are building an expert team to transform the working environment of the 18,000 people who make up the ICG development community and help them dramatically change theirapproach to developing software across the many different technologies we support.

The Developer Engineering group has a challenging remit, but with the scale and variety comes a unique opportunity to be agents of cultural and technical change who significantlyimpact the bank.

About The Team

Within the ICG Developer Engineering department, the Codified Controls group is a dedicated expert team focused on driving the everything-as-code agenda and delivering tangible reductions in process friction, errors, and manual effort to comply with and administerour controls.

The Codified Controls is a cross-functional team of engineers, data scientists, business analysts, and product managers that will directly engineer new codified controls and the underlying capabilities required to support them and drive other groups to providethe automated controls.

They are also cultural and behavioural leaders who are champions of great teamwork and highly opinionated on human-centric approaches to automating and codifying our controls and procedures.

The team will work extremely closely with the Risk and Controls Transformation team to ensure their work is mutually supportive.

There is a natural alignment of automation enabling new ways of working, which drives a need to change our controls to be amenableto codification, moving towards new thinking about how we could work.

This approach comes with a challenging but exciting opportunity to help change how a significant number of Citi employees work and reduce tedious, repetitive toil - freeing them up to docritical, creative thinking.

About The Role

We are looking for a Senior Technical Project Manager who will develop and manage end-to-end project plans, aligning cross-team engagements that bring clarity and focus through effective communication.

The Technical Project Manager will commit to hands-on learning the team's technologies, breaking down product requirements into engineering milestones. They will also track dependencies/risks ensuring on-time delivery and communicate appropriately in relevantforums.

The Technical Project Manager will work closely with the team and the Product Owner to help the team lead agile and other lean practices.

They will lead the Scrum ceremonies and coach the team towards being self-managed.
The Technical Project Manager role will report to the Product Lead.

Key Responsibilities:

Produce detailed technical roadmaps to deliver against the product plans and ensure the development teams clearly understand them
Work with Product Owner, Business Analysts and Engineering Team to plan and prioritise the feature backlog by assessing their value and ensure alignment with product strategy
Build and maintain planning dashboards to provide a holistic view of the execution strategy
Facilitates daily standup, sprint planning, review and retrospective. Manage the engineering development projects and facilitates releases
Drive team sprint execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team from outside influences that derail from the plan
Work with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks
Accountable for the Project Management deliverables of projects as per the organization's Project Delivery Framework.
Responsible for the successful delivery of the complete project(s) as per the standards.
Capture any roadblocks and proactively identify any risks and dependencies

Characteristics:

Excellent communicator who gets on well with others, building strong professional relationships
Expert coach on implementation of agile scrum
Passionate about delivering products on time
Collaborative by nature, builds partnerships across the firm
Creative and innovative, brings different angles to problems and provides new solutions
Risk and security focused, putting diligent risk management and security at the core of everything they do
An advocate of inclusion and diversity in every way
Open to change and experimenting unknowns
Demonstrate expertise of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.
Deep understanding of agile metrics (tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.) to analyse and improve sprint planning
Successfully used Jira across multiple projects with interlinked dependencies
Strategic thinker with experience balancing and prioritising shortterm solutions while keeping the longterm vision in mind
Demonstrated experience with datadriven decisionmaking and capacity planning
Understanding of DevOps will be an added advantage
Ability to understand and represent both the business and technology

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.