Innovation Projects Team Lead - Remote

Lead Project Manager

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location

Pension / Retirement benefits

Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

The Lead Project Manager is focused on structuring and organizing projects that are complex with significant cross-functional collaboration requirements, setting milestones in conjunction with the Area Lead taking into consideration business time-to-market requirements and coordinating with each team that delivers to those outcomes to meet them. They must possess the ability to push for target dates, while being empathetic to challenges and obstacles and be the team's voice in raising and mitigating risks with the help of senior management. The candidate must be open to new and modern approaches to delivery, including agile Program Increment planning processes.

Support the iterative business planning process

Work closely with all project stakeholder groups to coordinate the project milestones.

Define, plan, document and review project scope

Ensure delivered products meet defined business requirements and are of high quality

Proactively identify and manage risks. Plan for an effective risk mitigation

Lead and define the change management process for projects

Define and lead financial management for the project if necessary, with the ability to track project actuals against defined milestones

Track projects against approved budgets and report on forecasts and variances

Provide periodic progress report on project status and create a dashboard or required decks to keep sponsor and executives abreast of status and hold them accountable for facilitating mitigation of risks and resolution of escalated issues

Inspire and lead through effective team management

Build a communications strategy and execution plan for the project

Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

5+ years as a project manager with Infrastructure delivery project experience

• Demonstrated ability to manage delivery of 1 to 3 projects simultaneously through structure execution and routines
• Demonstrated ability to manage project accounting and artifacts including status, project plans, etc.
• Excellent project routine facilitation and skills
• Ability to execute a project with key critical business milestones, while supporting/enabling an agile delivery process

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.