Job Summary
The Senior Agile Project Manager will lead complex technology and business initiatives within a banking or financial services environment. The role will manage project delivery, risks, issues, dependencies, requirements, timelines, governance, and executive communications while partnering closely with developers, product teams, business stakeholders, and technology partners in a collaborative Agile environment.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex projects and initiatives within a banking or financial services environment.
• Facilitate Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, stand-ups, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Manage project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, actions, and interdependencies across multiple teams.
• Partner with Product Owners and business stakeholders to decompose high-level requirements into epics, features, user stories, and actionable deliverables.
• Establish and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, forecasts, and delivery commitments.
• Provide executive-level communication covering project status, risks, decisions, issues, financials, and delivery forecasts.
• Manage and administer Jira, including workflows, boards, dashboards, reporting, filters, metrics, and project configuration.
• Use Jira and other reporting tools to track velocity, burnup/burndown, capacity, forecasting, project health, KPIs, and OKRs.
• Coordinate with software developers, architects, QA, product teams, business analysts, infrastructure teams, and other technology stakeholders.
• Build strong working relationships with development teams and serve as a delivery partner between business and technology.
• Translate technical concepts into clear business-level communication for executives and non-technical stakeholders.
• Track and communicate overall program health, delivery progress, resource constraints, and emerging risks.
• Drive stakeholder alignment and coordinate decisions across business, technology, operations, risk, compliance, and other banking functions.
• Support continuous improvement of Agile delivery processes, governance, reporting, and team performance.
• Maintain project documentation and collaboration materials using Confluence, PowerPoint, Excel, and MS Project.
Required Qualifications
• Recent experience as a Senior Agile Project Manager or Technical Project Manager within banking, capital markets, financial services, or a similarly complex enterprise environment.
• Strong experience managing project risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, and governance.
• Strong executive communication and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to decompose complex requirements into manageable Agile deliverables.
• Strong hands-on experience facilitating Agile/Scrum teams.
• Advanced hands-on experience with Jira administration, configuration, dashboarding, and reporting.
• Strong understanding of APIs, databases, applications, and software development environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management, coordination, and relationship-building skills.
• Strong experience with project and Agile metrics, including project health, burnup/burndown, velocity, forecasting, KPIs, and OKRs.
• Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, MS Project, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Demonstrated ability to build productive working relationships with software developers and technical teams.
Preferred Qualifications
• Advanced understanding of application development and software engineering practices.
• Experience working with Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) processes and platforms.
• Experience delivering large-scale technology initiatives within banking, lending, capital markets, payments, or other financial services domains.
• Experience coordinating multiple Agile teams within a broader program or enterprise transformation.
Certifications
• Agile/Scrum certifications.
