Technology Alignment Manager Jobs in Halethorpe, MD

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates technical expertise to direct and provide guidance for a wide array of activities associated with planning and leading complex technology projects.Complete projects on time, within budget, and to client specifications

• Supports work for more complex projects or a small technology program that is composed of several projects

• Will lead a small team for specific project(s) or task(s)

• Ensuring a lean-agile mind-set is applied to work projects.Helps project team membersandmakessuggestions to improve practices

• Will manage and oversee project management activities such as project reporting, project planning, issue/risk identification and tracking, scope management, estimation, internal client management, relationship management, and other project documentation preparation and turnover to production for technology projects of low to medium complexity

• Develops the budget and statement of work, including project justification and plan technology projects.Willbe responsible fordefining roles and responsibilities within the project team. Responsible for monitoring project financials andupdateplans withaccurate, up-to-date informationin a timely manner. Follows financial standards and processes (e.g., monthly external revenue accruals, procurement, and external payments)

• Coordinates business SMEs and engineers to ensureprojectis appropriately staffed and resources are properly aligned and managed. Maintains regular contact with internal clients and coordinates and reports on project progress and accomplishments

• Works with all required functions and groups to effectively plan and execute sizable projects

• Working closely and developing relationships with a variety of business partners to ensure that all user story requirements are understood, documented, and met

• Decomposes the most complex problems into discrete work units

• Designs business workflows across a set ofapplicationor business domains

• Breaking down and communicating to non-technical audiences various complex or vague problems, options, and recommended steps to address

• Assistingin implementation of new processes including identification of risks and information gaps that must be addressed to ensure a successful outcome

• Identifiesnon-obvious relationships and anomalies often overlooked by others, evolving a solution or decision asnew informationis gained

• Balances strategic and pragmatic concerns when solving problems

• Makes sound decisions with limited facts or resources

• Will continuously look for process improvements

• Leads and helps to influence discussions with the business on multiple options to help solve the root cause, including various trade-offs and recommended approach within a single large-scale business unit

• Accountable for work of self and sometimes others, provides process and standards advice in area of specialtyand act as a resource for colleagues with less experience

Business Knowledge:

• Demonstrates knowledge of Project Portfolio Management principals and technologies

• Highlyself-motivated and able to thrive in an extremely fast-paced, ambiguous, and changing environment

• Articulatesbusiness needs and translate them into technology solutions

• Depending on functional alignment, understanding of the life cycle of the product to the client in Financial Services

• Decisions show a focus on current and future business priorities, together with fiscal responsibility

• Advanced knowledge of Asset Management, FinTech, Domain specific to DMS, Corporate, and/or Investments

Qualifications
Required:

• Bachelor's/Master's Degree (or equivalent experience) and 8+ years of related Project/Program Management/Scrum Master experience

• Experience supporting a digital development team(Front End Development team preferred)

• PMP certification and/or Agile Scrum certification

• Excellent verbal and written communication and skilled in stakeholder management

• Experienced in facilitation of Roadmap Workshops, Scrum ofScrumsand program planningactivities

• Experience running large-scale multi-disciplineefforts across people processes and technology with complex financial services organizations

• Demonstrates an understanding of technology infrastructure and nuances, including testing, QA, production environment, test environment, engineering, etc

• Isgrounded in the taxonomy of what isrequiredto successfully implement an Agile technology program or project

• Abreast of many best-of-class technologies

• Demonstrates technical acumen by providinga clear and concise explanation of business strategy, technical concepts, designs, or implementations to a non-technical audienceboth verbally and in writing

• Communicates architectural vision to all parties involved in an initiative

• Identifiesimpacts across teams and coordinates across senior levels to manage dependencies and potentially opposing priorities

• Actively contributes to the application portfolio mind-set: what is out-of-date, build vs. buy, similar capabilities

• Canidentifysystem/process/data impacts (upstream and downstream) and proposeappropriate alternatives/ remediation

• Experience working with multiple projects simultaneously toidentify, document and manage dependencies and potentially competing priorities

Preferred:

• Financial Services industryexperiencewith a preference for Asset Management

• Knowledge of operations for the assigned business unit (i.e., Distribution, Investments, and/orCorporatefunctions)