Project Manager

Title: Project Manager

Location : Remote (EST only)

Target Start Date : ASAP

Type: Contract

Role Overview Our client, a leading global financial data and technology provider, is seeking a Lead Project Manager on a temporary basis to be a major contributor to a cross-functional team delivering projects across its Trading Solutions business. The Trading Solutions platform (OMS, EMS, PMS) supports market participants worldwide, delivering critical information that powers their trading workflows.
The Lead Project Manager will plan and execute several workstreams, acting as the strategic bridge between business goals and technical delivery. This internal and external facing role carries end-to-end project ownership, stakeholder management, and delivery excellence across global teams.
The ideal candidate is a strong communicator and relationship builder who engages naturally with clients, executives, and cross-functional partners while managing complex projects involving trading data, cloud platforms, and financial systems. This is a 6-month engagement with no option to extend. Responsibilities

• Own and execute the full Trading Solutions Market Data investment program across all phases of the SDLC, with particular focus on several mission-critical projects.
• Serve as a client-facing and stakeholder-facing representative of the PMO, building trusted relationships internally and externally.
• Build project plans collaboratively with engineering and product development stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain a productive environment for cross-functional collaboration.
• Manage core project management areas as a self-starter, including requirements gathering, scope, schedule, cost, risk, quality, communications, and stakeholder management.
• Collect and analyze feedback from clients, stakeholders, and partner teams to shape requirements, evaluate business benefits and costs, and drive meaningful business outcomes.
• Manage project and team budgets across CapEx and OpEx to support Trading Solutions total cost of ownership (TCO).
• Communicate project execution plans and status to key stakeholders in a visible, consistent manner.
• Partner with peer PMO organizations to build joint roadmaps for overlapping areas of responsibility.
• Establish transparent, repeatable, low-bureaucracy project management best practices for engineering and product development teams.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• PMP, PgMP, SAFe, or equivalent certification.
• 5 to 7 years of experience in project, program, or portfolio management.
• 5 to 7 years working directly with engineering teams, product development, senior stakeholders, and clients.
• Proven experience leading large, complex workstreams involving trading market data processing.
• Strong background in cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and financial management of technology projects.
• Experience managing global, remote teams across multiple time zones through both direct and indirect influence.
• Intermediate knowledge of financially traded instruments.
• Demonstrated leadership and the ability to influence stakeholders and colleagues directly and indirectly.
• Practitioner of servant leadership.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts and features into business outcomes and benefits.
• Strong understanding of reporting structures, governance models, and executive-level communication.
• Desire for ongoing challenges and continuous learning about new business practices, technologies, and financial instruments.

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