Project Management Associate

Job Description

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities?

Join our DTCC family, and you'll grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you'll be supported and surrounded by other professionals as you learn new skills, advance your career, and see the impact of your efforts every day.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and other leave of absence
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (Onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day of your choosing)

Why you'll love this job:

The Project Manager coordinates and communicates all multi-functional activities related to the successful production delivery of IT projects to support DTCC's businesses.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the execution of an individual project or multiple smaller projects
• Lead multi-functional team to meet the success criteria for the project.
• Be a project leader for reviews, meetings, questions and updates.
• Actively manage and complete overall project delivery plans, which includes schedule, achievements, critical path and delivery expectations
• Negotiate time, scope, resources with project sponsors and functional managers to ensure timely deliverable of each project.
• Communicate information between project team and collaborators to ensure alignment.
• Build relationships and influence key collaborators and managers / team leads.
• Build a communications strategy and execution plan for the project.
• Clearly track, report and communicate regular project status (including scope, schedule and budget) to project collaborators, management and established governance groups
• Create, track, report and monitor project metrics.
• Identify, document and manage project issues and risks; Mitigate, resolve or advance appropriately when support is needed from management.
• Proactively identify, understand and address intra-project and inter-project dependencies.
• Create baseline project estimates when the project is handed off to the execution team.
• Track all projects against approved budgets and report on actuals, forecasts, and variances. Develop action to bring projects on or under budget unless a variance is approved.
• Identify and secure resources required to complete the plan and monitor resource utilization by continuously analyzing staffing requirements and resource allocations.
• Coordinate and update all project documentation; ensure reviews and signoff/approvals.
• Manage project site and artifacts.
• Follow all PMO processes to ensure compliance.
• Identify and communicate process improvements, better practices and lessons learned from projects.
• Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; advances appropriately.

**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **

Talents Needed For Success:

• Minimum of 5 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred

Additional Qualifications

• Plan and facilitate agile ceremonies (e.g., release planning, stand ups)
• Coach, influence and motivate the team for high-performance; ensure that the team is fully functional and productive - equally challenge and defend the squad.
• Clear obstacles and remove impediments that are preventing the squad from completing work.
• Shield/Protect the team from outside interferences, interruptions and distractions; Serve as the conduit between the squad and external requests.
• Enact and enforce agile values, practices and rules; be the biggest change agents in the organization.
• Help the team to maintain their Scrum tools (JIRA backlogs, etc.).
• Knowledge of HP PPM is a plus.

Who We Are:

The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

About Us

DTCC safeguards the financial markets and helps them run efficiently, in times of prosperity and crisis. We are uniquely positioned at the center of global trading activity, processing over 100 million financial transactions every day, pioneering industry-wide, post-trade solutions and maintaining multiple data and operating centers worldwide. From where we stand, we can anticipate the industry's needs and we're working to continually improve the world's most resilient, secure and efficient market infrastructure. Our employees are driven to deliver innovative technologies that improve efficiency, lower cost and bring stability and certainty to the post-trade lifecycle.

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you'll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It's the chance to make a difference at a company that's truly one of a kind.

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About the Team

IT Architecture and Enterprise Services are responsible for enabling digital transformation of DTCC. The group manages complexity of the technology landscape within DTCC and enhances agility, robustness and security of the technology footprint. It does so by serving as the focal point for all technology architectural activities in the organization as well as engineering a portfolio of foundational technology assets to enable our digital transformation.