CONTRACTOR - Sr. IT Project Manager, Credit/Market Risk Delivery (NYC | Hybrid | NO 3rd PARTIES) (New York)

Contractor - Senior IT Project Manager

Market & Credit Risk Delivery

Contract | NYC | $750-950/day | C2C or 1099 (no W2)

Position Overview:

Our client is seeking an experienced Senior IT Project Manager to lead the delivery of technology initiatives supporting Market Risk, Credit Risk, and trading-related platforms. The role is responsible for driving multiple concurrent workstreams from requirements and solution planning through build, testing, production deployment, and transition to ongoing support.

This position requires a delivery-focused project manager who can operate effectively across Risk, Technology, Engineering, QA, Change, and governance teams. The successful candidate will combine strong financial-services domain knowledge with practical SDLC fluency, regulatory delivery experience, and hands-on use of modern AI and automation tools to improve project execution.

Key Responsibilities:

Technology Delivery & Execution

• Lead end-to-end execution of approximately 3–5 concurrent technology projects or workstreams, covering requirements, development, testing, implementation, and transition to BAU support.
• Partner with engineering leads to manage sprint and release planning, backlog refinement, delivery velocity, dependencies, and impediment resolution.
• Maintain detailed project plans, milestone schedules, RAID logs, dependency maps, and delivery forecasts, proactively identifying issues before they affect critical dates.
• Work closely with Engineering and QA to reinforce disciplined SDLC practices, including code-review checkpoints, test coverage, release readiness, and production implementation controls.
• Convert regulatory and risk-management requirements, including FRTB, BCBS 239, SA-CCR, or comparable frameworks, into executable technology plans and track delivery through completion.
• Manage project financials and delivery capacity, including budget/run-rate tracking, resource planning, and vendor statement-of-work execution.
• Use approved AI and automation tools, such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, Jira automation, or comparable platforms, to streamline requirements, test-case development, release documentation, meeting outputs, status reporting, and other SDLC activities.
• Develop reusable AI-enabled delivery practices and templates that can be adopted across the broader project and engineering organization.

Business, Change & Stakeholder Management

• Serve as a primary technology delivery contact for Risk Management, business stakeholders, and partner teams, ensuring clear expectations, requirements, priorities, and scope.
• Produce concise project reporting, dashboards, executive updates, and steering-committee materials that clearly communicate progress, risks, decisions, and required actions.
• Manage scope changes and impact assessments through review, approval, and implementation.
• Coordinate UAT, business readiness, deployment communications, and go-live activities in partnership with Change and business teams.
• Provide accurate status, dependency, and risk information into broader program governance while retaining direct ownership of assigned projects and workstreams.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of technology project or program delivery experience within financial services, with direct exposure to Market Risk, Credit Risk, trading technology, or closely related platforms.
• Demonstrated delivery of regulatory technology initiatives involving FRTB, BCBS 239, SA-CCR, or comparable risk and regulatory frameworks through production implementation.
• Strong understanding of software delivery practices and the ability to work credibly with Engineering and QA teams on development, testing, release, and production-readiness activities.
• Advanced hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence, including workflows, dashboards, project tracking, and management reporting.
• Strong stakeholder-management and executive-communication skills, including risk escalation, status reporting, decision framing, and presentation of delivery options.
• Working knowledge of quantitative risk concepts such as Value at Risk (VaR), Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA), and P&L explain.
• Strong discipline around RAID management, cross-team dependencies, milestone tracking, and delivery governance.
• Working knowledge of project budget, resource, and vendor-management processes.

AI & Automation Capability

• Advanced practical user of AI-assisted productivity and software-delivery tools, with experience creating repeatable workflows for project documentation, meeting minutes, RAID management, test cases, reporting, and related delivery artifacts.
• Ability to identify SDLC activities that can be safely automated or accelerated through AI while maintaining appropriate human review and quality controls.
• Understanding of data-governance, confidentiality, security, and regulatory considerations associated with the use of AI tools in a regulated financial-services environment.
• Willingness to share effective AI-enabled delivery patterns and help increase adoption across project and engineering teams.

Success Profile

Execution-oriented: Takes accountability for delivery outcomes rather than limiting the role to project tracking and reporting.

Proactive problem solver: Works directly with teams to remove blockers, resolve dependencies, and drive decisions before escalating.

SDLC fluent: Understands how software is designed, built, tested, released, and supported and can engage effectively with technical teams.

Credible with Engineering & QA: Can challenge and validate test coverage, delivery risks, release readiness, and implementation plans.

AI-enabled delivery mindset: Uses approved AI and automation tools routinely to improve speed, consistency, and quality and develops approaches that others can reuse.