Lead Project Manager

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

Pay And Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

The impact you will have in this role:

The Lead Project Manager will be focused on structuring and organizing projects that are complex with significant cross-functional collaboration requirements, setting milestones in conjunction with the Area Lead taking into consideration business time-to-market requirements and coordinating with each team that delivers to those outcomes to meet them. The candidate must be a self-starter, be able to engage both executive and technical audiences, and demonstrate a positive and proactive demeanor. This role will push for target dates, while being empathetic to challenges and obstacles and be the team's voice in raising and mitigating risks with the help of senior management. In addition, the Lead Project Manager must be open to new and modern approaches to delivery, including agile Program Increment planning processes.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Support the iterative business planning process
• Successfully plan and track execution while maintaining profitable engagement with stakeholders. Work closely with all project collaborator groups to coordinate the project milestones
• Define, plan, document and review project scope
• Understand and translate cross-team dependencies into actionable plans
• Identify and secure resources required to complete the plan and monitor resource utilization by continuously analyzing staffing requirements and resource allocations
• Ensure delivered products meet defined business requirements and are of high quality
• Proactively identify and manage risks. Plan for an effective risk mitigation
• Lead and define the change management process for projects
• Define and lead financial management for the project, if necessary, with the ability to track project actuals against defined milestones
• Track projects against approved budgets and report on forecasts and variances
• Provide periodic progress report on project status and create a dashboard or required decks to keep sponsors and executives abreast of status and hold them accountable for facilitating mitigation of risks and resolution of raised issues
• Inspire and lead through effective team management
• Resolve issues in a timely manner
• Work with multiple partners to meet the desired objectives
• Build a communications strategy and execution plan for the project
• Align risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk

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

Qualifications:

• Minimum 6 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree (preferred) or equivalent experience

Talents Needed For Success:

• 5+ years as a project manager with Infrastructure delivery project experience
• Demonstrated ability to manage delivery of 1 to 3 projects simultaneously through structure execution and routines
• Demonstrated ability to manage project accounting and artifacts including status, project plans, etc.
• Excellent project routine facilitation and skills
• Ability to complete a project with key critical business achievements, while supporting/enabling an agile delivery process

We offer top class training and development for you to be an asset in our organization!

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 essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

With over 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes, bringing enhanced resilience and soundness to existing financial markets while advancing the digital asset ecosystem. In 2024, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $3.7 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $99 trillion. DTCC’s Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 25 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at www.dtcc.com or connect with us on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.

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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