Executive Director, IT Portfolio Management & Delivery

What You’ll Do

Responsible for establishing, standardizing and leading the practice of managing our IT portfolio and associated delivery practices for the IT organization. 

The ideal candidate will develop and mature a holistic view of the IT portfolio for the IT organization. They will also evolve our practices to be appropriately aligned to the portfolio, while refining standards and KPI’s that promote accountability and foster transparency for our IT leaders and business teams. This role will be responsible for establishing and ensuring use of portfolio and project management methodologies, analytics, and decision analysis that help the organization understand demand and how to respond to that demand through delivery of programs and projects.

This role will also have oversight of the Agile Practices to the methodology and best practices by which product teams take in, prioritize, plan, and execute work. This process will ensure that all strategic initiatives are flawlessly executed and yield improved business efficiency and high-impact results. This role will lead the team that will help to transition our business from its existing work practices to a truly integrated agile methodology. This will play a key role in the long-term strategy across the entire organization, helping our teams to deliver better products in a faster, more efficient way while ensure that key control requirements are met.

This is a highly visible, dynamic leadership position. In addition to regularly interfacing with IT executives, this leader will work closely with business leadership to advance technology components of key business initiatives. The successful candidate must have a flexible approach to defining long-range strategies and implementation plans that balance industry best practices around portfolio management with the unique needs of our business. This leader must have expert influencing skills and a laser-focus on assessing the real needs (people, process, and technology) required to move the business forward

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Develop, establish, and maintain a standard approach for managing a demand project portfolio across the IT organization

• Set a long-term vision for the IT portfolio practice and create a near-term roadmap that standardizes demand management and resource management approaches and establishes consistent data reporting

• Work with the IT leadership team, resource managers and PMO to provide a comprehensive overview of the IT project portfolio

• Facilitate capacity planning to ensure the right resources are available to meet future project needs, balance capacity to ensure that key strategic projects are prioritized and consult the governing teams when adequate resources are not available

• Collaborate with executive business leaders to establish governance processes to monitor and report on portfolio health and overall IT capacity

• Build and maintain a trusted adviser relationship with leadership ensuring collaboration and transparency; wherever possible, identify process improvement opportunities

• Provide recommendations to senior leadership for most efficient change management processes and ensure alignment with organizational goals

• Develop and implement continuous improvement actions to increase organizational agile maturity, as measured through an established and quantified Agile Maturity Model.

• Assist all members of the team in getting up to speed and working through the cultural and technical transition to an agile methodology.

• Further develop and standardize agile metrics to optimize value delivery and promote lean thinking and continuous improvement.

• Provides visibility into delivery targets, commitments and progress and integrates Agile & Lean principles into team practices and work products

• Designing and producing metrics used to measure efficiency and effectiveness

• Actively participate in the creation and maintenance of the team’s roadmap

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This role will have direct supervisory responsibilities across multiple functional areas:

• IT Portfolio Management

• Agile Practices

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• Previous work experience in a highly regulated, capital markets environment required.

• Proven track record in leading and influencing senior IT leaders

• Experience in Agile Methodologies, Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe)

• Experience implementing enterprise-wide delivery processes and controls

• Can showcase examples of implementing agile techniques in different environments

• Experience using Jira, Confluence, and/or other lifecycle management tools

• Solid understanding of organizational change management; experience with ADKAR or other formal change management methodology is a plus

Technical Skills:

• Proficiency with Project Delivery tools including, but not limited to, Project Server, MS Project, Confluence, and Jira

• Experience with data visualization and analytics tools like Power BI, Tableau, and Apptio are preferred, but not required

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or equivalent work experience

• 10+ years’ experience in Technology, IT Business Management, Project/program Management, and previous leadership or supervisory experience

Certificates or Licenses:

• PMP and/or Agile certifications preferred but not required

Who We Are

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

What We Offer

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:

A hybrid work environment, up to 3 days per week of remote work

Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education

Student Loan Repayment Assistance

Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely

Generous PTO and Parental leave

Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision