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Capital One · 2 days ago

Senior Manager, Project Management (Technical Portfolio Lead)

McLean, VA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

$178K/yr - $203K/yr

8+ years exp

Capital One is seeking a highly organized and self-motivated Sr. Manager, Project Management (Technical Portfolio Lead) to join their Intelligent Foundations & Experiences team. This role is responsible for ensuring the planned and predictable flow of value within a collection of products and platforms, while supporting engineering leaders and product managers in refining delivery methods and proactive planning practices.

BankingCredit CardsFinanceFinancial Services

Comp. & Benefits

No H1B

Responsibilities

Advise on optimized methods and standards for delivery practices, tooling and reporting that minimizes administrative overhead and increases actionable insights to drive value creation. Enable, govern and launch these standards

Refine steady-state delivery practices, artifacts and routines to optimize the building of high quality software, faster (in collaboration with cross-functional leadership)

Define, measure, track and report out overall tower/domain/platform health metrics

Ensure traceability of commitments, progress and impediments, across all types of work

Govern, enable and ensure alignment with enterprise and LOB delivery standards (process, artifacts, tooling and data)

Ensure all work within the tower directly supports strategic goals and key priorities of the tower’s services and platforms. This includes providing clear insights into tower performance to support and empower tower leaders

Partner with Engineering & Product leaders to develop and maintain comprehensive 12-month tower roadmaps, incorporating all types of work based on historical capacity

Collaborate with Engineering leadership to drive prioritization decisions based on data, including impact analysis and trade-off considerations

Regularly analyze and report on tower investment allocation levels, feature costs, and potential impacts to inform prioritization decisions for tower leadership

Publish, maintain and align unified listing of active and future efforts, ensuring regular and consistent status updates with minimal administrative overhead

Facilitate the scheduling of work outside of key programs including cross-functional efforts, with impact and sizing discussions

Drive delivery of the tower/domain/platform roadmaps forward. Identify, escalate and personally mitigate risks and impediments to on-time delivery of high quality solutions

Partner with TPMs, Project Managers, Product Managers and Engineering Leaders on the creation, publication and refinement of portfolio delivery best practices including but not limited to stakeholder management, dependency management, risk management, communication planning as well as scope decomposition/refinement

Qualification

Portfolio ManagementData AnalysisProject ManagementPMP CertificationAgile MethodologiesCommunication SkillsCollaboration SkillsProblem Solving

Required

Bachelor's Degree or Military experience

At least 8 Years of Project Management experience

At least 1 Year of People Management experience

Strong portfolio, project, and program management and organizational skills with meticulous attention to detail

Proven experience optimizing and implementing complex portfolio operating models (including routines, artifacts and methods) in a repeatable and sustainable way

Known for your strong quantitative background to support data-informed decision making

Can work autonomously and knows when to escalate in a timely manner with direct manager and leadership

Confident to champion unpopular ideas even with more senior leaders

Ability to navigate ambiguous situations

Collaborative, team player attitude with the ability to navigate and influence the organization

Executive communication skills that can tell the story that will positively drive transformational change

Contributor to continuous improvement of program / portfolio management practices