Program Manager

Position Overview:
We are looking for a Program Manager to support our newly formed team from an IT perspective. This is an exceptional opportunity to help support a new effort at the firm as part of a small entrepreneurial team. The effort will focus on all major global asset classes including, but not limited to Equities, Fixed Income, Currencies, Commodities and Options/Volatility. The Contract Program Manager reports to the Director of Business Services and is a member of the Information Technology team.

Responsibilities:

• Leads and provides guidance to establish an IT operating and governance model for managing our multi-asset class strategies
• Partner with the business team in defining their future operating model and business architecture
• Track and coordinate the program (streams: security master, trading, accounting & performance, and strategic data stores) and its dependencies
• Ensure that each project within the program has a direct responsible individual
• Manage collective activities, issues, dependencies, and risks of the projects within the portfolio
• Ensure transparency by keeping all stakeholders, project members, and leadership informed
• Advocate for delivery process and controls
• Promote continuous improvement and help teams increase productivity and foster innovation
• Mentor team members on Agile principals and best practices
• Work with project scrum masters to plan sprints, prioritize the backlog, lead teams, manage the development process, identify and eliminate obstacles from delivery
• Lead the Scrum of Scrums across all projects within the delivery team on a daily basis
• Ensure transparency throughout delivery utilizing Agile best practices such as Sprint Planning, Release and Sprint Burndown, Daily Scrum, Sprint Demos, and Retrospectives

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in the asset management business, ideally with a buy-side multi-asset focus
• Recent experience managing and implementing multi-asset class front, middle, and back office solutions with the following security types: Equities, ETFs, Futures, Options, Structured Notes, FX, Total Return Swaps, Interest Rates Swaps, and Volatility Swaps
• 10 years of prior experience as a Project Manager
• 5+ years of recent experience as a Scrum Master and is CSM certified
• Experience with Agile PLM tools like Rally, Jira, and VersionOne (Jira Preferred)
• Experience implementing and integrating front office functions with an order management systems (Charles River preferred), security master solutions (MarkIT EDM preferred), performance systems (BiSam preferred), accounting systems/providers (SS&C GlobeOp / Advent Geneva preferred)
• Excellent communication & mentoring skills