Project Manager

The IT Project Manager will support technology projects or delivery teams by partnering closely with engineering, product, and program leaders to drive modern, iterative delivery practices. They will manage planning, dependencies, risks, releases, and status updates while ensuring effective prioritization and successful delivery. They will champion Fidelity leadership behaviors to foster an innovative, collaborative culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Planning & Coordination: Align project scope, objectives, and roadmaps with product, business, and technology strategy; manage multiple low-to-medium complexity projects or a high-visibility initiative, partnering with cross-functional leaders to plan work, identify risks and dependencies, coordinate releases, and maintain clear, transparent communication and documentation.

• Execution & Delivery Management: Lead planning and execution events across projects, track and report delivery health using data-driven insights, facilitate trade-off decisions, drive accountability for outcomes, and proactively manage risks, dependencies, and communications to support successful delivery.

• Continuous Improvement & Predictability: Implement and continuously improve delivery processes using data insights, optimize workflows for efficiency and flow, and identify lifecycle improvements to enhance predictability and outcomes.
• Technology & Quality Oversight: Enforce engineering excellence by managing quality standards, technical debt, incidents, and change processes. Accountable for effective and integrated release management, ensuring readiness across teams, and clear communication.
• Team Leadership & Culture: Motivate and guide teams by fostering a culture of ownership and accountability. Support team formation, training, and continuous improvement through feedback and learning opportunities.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of overall work experience and 5 years’ experience working directly to plan and drive technology delivery outcomes, within a team or across multiple teams
• Relevant proven experience and training/certification in delivery frameworks and methodologies (project management, iterative delivery, etc.)
• Excellent facilitation, planning, and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to lead through influence and drive cross-functional alignment
• Strong experience with delivery metrics, forecasting, and capacity planning
• Familiarity with scaled delivery practices and enterprise governance
• PMP Certification a plus but not required

Key Core Skills

• Project Planning & Roadmap Development
• Delivery Management
• Risk & Dependency Management
• Data Driven Process Improvement
• Stakeholder Communication & Influence
• Performance Monitoring & KPI Management
• Change Leadership & Adaptability
• Iterative Delivery Frameworks
• Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Knowledge

The Team

The Fidelity Wealth Technology Planning, Operations & Enablement team makes it possible for the Wealth Delivery ecosystem to thrive by aligning strategy, driving execution, and cultivating team excellence – through integrated capabilities, scalable practices, and a people-first mindset. We ensure strategic execution and generation of insights that guide planning and prioritization for the Technology Delivery Portfolio , aligned to business strategy and customer segmentation , leveraging our core capabilities of Portfolio Enablement, Program Management, and IT Project Management and Delivery Operations . We are focused on building a highly integrated organization, aimed at delivering transformative business value through empowered delivery teams, adaptive practices, and strategic enablement.