Technical Project Manager with Risk exp

Role: Technical Project Manager with Risk exp

Location: Jersey City, NJ Onsite

Fulltime Permanent

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Required Skills

• 7-9 years of Technical Project Management experience within Banking or Financial Services.
• Strong experience in Risk Management, Controls, Compliance, and Audit support.
• Proven experience managing medium to large-scale technology programs.
• Hands-on experience with Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and SDLC methodologies.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Experience managing RAID logs, remediation plans, and governance reporting.
• Knowledge of Change Management, Release Management, and Incident Management processes.
• Expertise in JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, SharePoint, and PowerPoint.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills

Roles & Responsibilities

Project & Program Management

• Manage end-to-end delivery of technology projects across multiple teams and business units.
• Drive project planning, execution, status reporting, budgeting, dependency management, and risk mitigation.
• Develop and maintain project roadmaps, milestones, and delivery timelines.
• Coordinate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Architects, Development, QA, and Infrastructure teams.
• Facilitate governance forums, steering committee meetings, and executive-level reporting.

Risk & Control Management

• Identify, assess, and mitigate project, operational, technology, and regulatory risks.
• Maintain RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) logs and ensure timely remediation.
• Partner with Enterprise Risk, Compliance, Audit, Information Security, and Control Functions.
• Lead risk assessments, control evaluations, issue management, and corrective action planning.
• Ensure adherence to client and regulatory requirements including SOX, FFIEC, OCC, and enterprise risk governance standards.
• Support audits, regulatory reviews, and control testing activities.

Agile Delivery & Governance

• Drive Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Daily Standups, Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Monitor delivery metrics, sprint health, velocity, and project KPIs.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and communicate project health effectively.
• Ensure alignment with SDLC, change management, release management, and environment management processes. Technical Leadership
• Work closely with Engineering and Architecture teams to understand technical dependencies and implementation plans.
• Manage integration projects involving cloud, APIs, data platforms, middleware, and enterprise applications.
• Review technical designs and identify delivery risks, capacity constraints, and operational impacts.
• Support production readiness reviews and post-implementation monitoring.