Project Manager (Banking/Investment/Trading exp required)
1 Month ago • All levels
Project Management
Job Description
Our customer seeks a highly motivated Project Manager with experience in supporting trading floor applications. This role involves establishing and leading project governance, overseeing implementation with IT teams, defining and monitoring SLAs, KPIs, and KRIs, and ensuring strong communication across all teams. The Project Manager will utilize various methodologies like Agile and Waterfall, manage tools such as Jira and Confluence, and handle release planning and change management. Key responsibilities also include translating business requirements, documenting technical plans, identifying and mitigating risks, coordinating UAT, and ensuring performance testing for latency-sensitive systems.
Must Have:
- Lead project governance and operational committees.
- Follow up project implementation with IT teams.
- Define and monitor SLA, KPIs, and KRIs.
- Maintain strong communication with all involved teams.
- Utilize Project Management Frameworks (Agile, Waterfall, hybrid).
- Use tools like Jira, Confluence, MS Project, Trello.
- Coordinate release planning with dev, QA, and operations.
- Manage change using ITIL processes in production environments.
- Translate business requirements into technical deliverables.
- Document functional specifications and integration plans.
- Communicate effectively with traders, developers, quants, infrastructure.
- Identify technology and operational risks in trade flow.
- Build contingency and rollback plans for high-impact changes.
- Coordinate UAT for system upgrades or migrations.
- Ensure performance and load testing for latency-sensitive systems.
Perks:
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Paid parental leave
- Mentorship
Job Summary:
Our customer seeks highly motivated and technically skilled individuals and experience in PM to join our team supporting the landscape of application for our trading floor. This engineer will play a critical role in integrating advanced mechanical systems, ensuring reliability, safety, and efficiency in the production of next-generation battery and fuel cell technologies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Establish and lead project governance (operational committees for regular follow up and steering committees for top management reporting and strategic decisions)
- Follow up the implementation of the project with IT teams after budget allocation and business prioritization
- Define and follow SLA, KPIs and KRIs with different actors
- Maintain strong interaction and communication with all teams involved in order to remain aligned with the global framework, optimize processes and represent AMER interest in global projects and developments
Project & Delivery Methodologies
- Project Management Frameworks: Agile (Scrum/Kanban), Waterfall, or hybrid approaches.
- Tools: Jira, Confluence, MS Project, Trello, or equivalent.
- Release Planning: Coordinating with dev, QA, and operations for controlled releases.
- Change Management: ITIL change control processes in production-critical environments.
Technical Communication Skills
- Ability to translate business requirements into technical deliverables and vice versa.
- Document functional specifications, technical integration plans, and deployment checklists.
- Communicate effectively with traders, developers, quants, and infrastructure teams.
Risk & Quality Management
- Identify technology and operational risks in projects affecting front-to-back trade flow.
- Build contingency and rollback plans for high-impact changes.
- Conduct UAT planning and coordination for system upgrades or migrations.
- Ensure performance and load testing is included for latency-sensitive systems.
Interpersonal skills
- Strong analytical skills follow up capability and problem-solving ability
- Pragmatic, curious, dynamic, detail oriented and fast learning capacity so as to be able to and work in high-pressure environment and flexible enough to adapt to a changing environment
- Strong teamwork that should not impede autonomy on assigned topics
- Client focused, able to identify and anticipate client requirements
- Good written and verbal communication skills adapted to recipients (local IT vs global IT vs Business)
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