IT Project Manager

IT Project Manager

The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland's mission is to foster the stability, integrity, and efficiency of the nation's monetary, financial, and payment systems while representing the Fourth District perspectives. As part of the nation's central bank, we are a team of mission-driven professionals who are committed to serving with excellence. Our core values are: Build Trust Every Day, Own Our Actions, Collaborate with Intention, and Be Open to Change. For twenty-six years in a row, we've been named "One of Northeast Ohio's Best Places to Work" by North Coast 99. This prestigious award honors organizations with outstanding employment practices, including compensation, benefits, training, recruitment, retention, community services, and employee communications.

As an IT Project Manager, you will be responsible for organizing and driving concurrent cloud optimization and modernization initiatives for Treasury Services business lines – along with select operations and customer success projects. This position plays a key partnership role within the organization, requiring regular communication with colleagues, business stakeholders, vendors, national IT partners, and teams across the Federal Reserve System and/or the US Treasury. The position primarily supports a business line that has completed its cloud migration and is focused on assimilating an existing application while advancing performance, scalability, and alignment with enterprise initiatives.

To be considered, candidates must be a U.S. citizen.

Essential responsibilities:

• Accountable for the management and coordination of multiple concurrent workstreams related to cloud optimization, application assimilation, and enterprise operational and customer success initiatives – in alignment with PMIAA and the FRS System IT program management standards and methodologies
• Partner with technical subject matter experts across the technology, product, operations and customer success teams to identify and manage work efforts, timelines, escalations, and strategic priorities
• Coordinate with product, development, and business teams to track milestones, deliverables, and dependencies and ensure alignment with organizational objectives
• Superior written and verbal communication skills
• Prepare and deliver clear, concise materials and status updates for executive and broad organizational audiences
• Engage with stakeholders to ensure realization of Business Value objectives through effective scope management, work prioritization, sequencing, and removal of impediments
• Identify, manage, and communicate risks, issues, and dependencies across all assigned initiatives
• Develop and maintain key project artifacts, including schedules, resource plans, RAID logs, and change management documentation
• Ensure compliance and alignment with Bank, System, and industry standards and policies
• Manage technical dependencies and cross-team impacts across applications, systems, and integrations
• Promote a solution-focused and collaborative environment in meetings, ensuring discussions emphasize resolution and forward progress

Education and Experience

• Associate degree and 9+ years of related work experience OR
• Bachelor's degree and 7 years of related work experience OR
• Master's degree and 5 years of related work experience
• PMP certification preferred. In lieu of a PMP, equivalent project management experience and/or relevant Agile certifications will be considered.

Expertise you would bring

• Proven experience managing and delivering large, complex technology projects from initiation through completion, with effective communication to a broad range of audiences.
• Strong experience in project coordination and stakeholder management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level presentations and reporting.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Project Online
• Experience with Jira and Confluence preferred
• Experience coordinating across architecture, security, testing, data, and integration teams - or the ability to quickly learn technical concepts in these areas.
• Comfortable driving results amid complexity and ambiguity.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-based systems, including AWS-native architectures, optimization, operations, and customer success functions.
• Experienced in Agile methodologies and capable of leading cross-functional discussions.
• Strong collaboration skills across in-office, hybrid and remote team environments.
• Preferred: PMP certification, and background in FinTech, banking, or Agile product development environments

Location: Cleveland, OH

The expected starting salary range for the IT Project Manager is between ​$123,700 and $170,100 annually. Final salary and offer will be determined by the applicant's background, experience, skills, internal equity, and market data.

The Cleveland Fed offers benefits to support overall health and financial security. Learn more about our benefits here.

Physical Demands and General Working Conditions

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, standards or requirements, efforts, skills or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland reserves the right to revise this or any job description at any time.

Reasonable Accommodation Statement - The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an email to View email address on click.appcast.io.

Bank's Ethics Rules and Drug Testing:

As a condition of employment, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland employees must comply with the Bank's ethics rules which generally prohibit employees, their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children from owning or controlling, directly or indirectly, any debt or equity interest in a depository institution or an affiliate of a depository institution. A "depository institution" means a bank, a trust company, or any institution that accepts deposits, including a bank chartered under the laws of a foreign country. In addition, employees (and their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children) may not own shares of mutual funds, unit investment trusts or ETFs that have a policy, as stated in the prospectus, of concentrating in the financial services industry and that have underlying investments in banks or other depository institutions. If you or your spouse/domestic partner or minor child own such securities and would not be willing or able to divest them if you accepted an offer of Bank employment, you should raise this issue with the recruiter for this posting.

In addition, as a condition of employment, candidates must undergo a background check and will be tested for all controlled substances prohibited by federal law, to include marijuana, prior to hire and for certain safety sensitive positions during employment.