Fidelity Bank · 1 day ago
Director, Project Management
Merrimack, NH
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid Level
4+ years expFidelity Bank is a financial services organization seeking a Director of Project Management to enhance Agile practices within their technology teams. The role involves coaching, mentoring, and collaborating with various stakeholders to improve performance and deliver value across product areas.
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Responsibilities
Collaborates and shares findings and knowledge across teams, the organization, and peer Scrum Masters, to improve Agile culture and practices
Coaches Squads on Agile cultural and business applications and builds core and common competencies across product areas
Applies Agile practices at the domain and product area levels and breaks down large batches into smaller squads to maintain focus on pace of delivery
Collaborates with Squad Leaders to identify solutions to development obstacles
Delivers training and oversight to ensure knowledge transfer of specialized skills in technical, product management, project management, and user experience areas
Identifies challenges, tests hypothesis, and evaluates solutions, including championing innovative technology solutions and research methodologies
Collaborates with key stakeholder teams to align with the product strategy and multi-year roadmap
Works cross-functionally to understand business priorities and to ensure alignment against work
Works with design, development, and solution delivery to optimize efficiency and eliminate friction for ongoing project delivery
Accelerating overall squad performance, efficiency and value delivered by engaging within and across squads to find opportunities to improve agile maturity and metrics, and providing coaching, training and resources
Maintains and updates squad performance metrics and artifacts to ensure accurate and clear feedback to the squad members and transparency to other partners
Manages, coordinates logistics for and participating in agile events prioritization, sprint planning, daily meetings, retrospectives and as appropriate scaled events including scrum of scrum masters
Supports adoption and consistent use of enabling tools
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Information Management, Business Administration, Marketing, Human Resources Management, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Project Management (or closely related occupation) leading or coaching Information Technology (IT) product development teams, using Lean and Agile practices in a financial services or banking domain
Or, alternatively, a Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Information Management, Business Administration, Marketing, Human Resources Management, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and four (4) years of experience as a Director, Project Management (or closely related occupation) leading or coaching Information Technology (IT) product development teams, using Lean and Agile practices in a financial services or banking domain
Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) leading agile projects in the asset management fixed income domain for a diverse and global organization -- facilitating, visioning, road mapping, identifying issues, and forming hypotheses and solutions -- using tools (Jira and JiraAlign) and Engineering Excellence Maturity Assessments
DE performing release orchestration with Sonar, Stash, and Jenkins; and visualizing and providing operational support for successful delivery, using PowerBI dashboards
DE designing, modeling, and testing key processes and practices that enable business and technical agility, and ensuring the efficiency of the products and services delivered across business units, following Lean and Agile methodologies (agile maturity assessments using Agility Health); optimizing value delivery with flow metrics; and kick starting and onboarding new teams using Scrum@Scale to ensure product delivery
DE coaching technology teams that are developing asset management solutions practices in an asset management fixed income domain
Company
Fidelity Bank
Fidelity Bank is a commercial bank providing services financial sercvices.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2018-12-17Acquired
2014-09-01Private Equity
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