First Citizens Bank · 9 hours ago
Senior Manager IT - Wealth Management Technology (Raleigh, NC)
Raleigh, NC
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expFirst Citizens Bank is a financial institution seeking a Senior Manager for their Wealth Management Technology team. This role provides leadership for IT product planning and delivery, overseeing a team to ensure alignment with business priorities and compliance with bank standards.
BankingInsuranceLendingPaymentsWealth Management
Responsibilities
Lead the design, development, testing and deployment of applications
Serve as a technical advisor to leadership, associates, and business partners
Ensure team activities comply with configuration management, change control, and information security standards
Contribute technical insight in business discussions and special initiatives to represent end-user needs
Manage vendor relationships and hold partners accountable for system updates, maintenance, and performance
Keeps abreast of industry trends
Provide direction and operational oversight for IT projects and products
Own accountability for work delivered by the team, ensuring alignment with business objectives
Balance product outcomes with project timelines, scope, and delivery commitments
Partner closely with Product Owners and Business leaders to drive execution
Collaborate with Project Managers to proactively identify, manage, and mitigate risks and issues
Lead the team on priorities, sequencing, and day-to-day execution
Oversee status reporting and performance metrics in partnership with Scrum Masters and Delivery Leads
Lead regular planning and delivery cadences
Assign project work, drive schedules and releases, and communicate progress and outcomes to stakeholders
Establish and maintain delivery tracking mechanisms focused on key metrics (e.g., backlog health, quality, velocity, committed vs. delivered)
Engage cross-functional partners to ensure successful delivery of capabilities and outcomes
Make appropriate updates to IT policies, standards, procedures, and operational efficiencies to meet business and regulatory objectives
Ensure bank priorities are met through effective demand management, prioritization, and resource allocation
Support budget forecasting, capital planning, and vendor invoicing processes
Provide input on resource planning and financial management
Manage and mentor a team of analysts, engineers
Partner with business stakeholders to understand and align on strategic priorities
Manage and prioritize the delivery backlog in collaboration with business partners
Direct development, business analysis, and testing activities, including scope definition, timeline and cost estimation, and assessment of system impacts
Facilitate system enhancements within existing architectures and support architectural changes as needed
Elicit, refine, and maintain business-technology roadmaps, ensuring prioritization and awareness of cross-team dependencies and impacts
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree and 8 years of experience in Applications development, analysis or engineering OR High School Diploma or GED and 12 years of experience in Applications development, analysis or engineering
Preferred
Previous leadership for technical implementation, and management of individuals
Knowledge of Standard Development Life Cycles (like Waterfall or Agile)
Experience in vendor management
Experience in cross functional delivery across other IT teams
Experience with distributed systems architecture and design
Experience in business analysis, requirements gathering, detailed designing and development
Experience working on .NET, SQL Server
Ability to manage and coach both people and processes
Experience working for a Financial Institution
Experience working in Wealth Management is a plus
Company
First Citizens Bank
First Citizens Bank provides banking services, essential business and professional services, wealth management capabilities, and more.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$33M2021-05-07Post Ipo Debt· $10M
2018-08-29Post Ipo Debt· $23M
1986-10-31IPO
Leadership Team
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Craig Nix
Chief Financial Officer
Greg Smith
Chief Information and Operations Officer
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