Contract IT Project Manager/Scrum Master for Risk Technology

Job Description

Contract IT Project Manager/Scrum Master for Risk Technology

MUST be local to New York City, Hybrid Schedule at least 3 days onsite

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced IT Project Manager / Scrum Master to join the Risk technology PMO team for managing Market Risk projects.

Key Responsibilities:

Serve as the IT PM and Scrum Master for one or more agile teams, ensuring agile practices are followed and understood.

Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, including daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and sprint reviews.

Assist in tracking and removing impediments, fostering an environment for high team performance and continuous improvement.

Manage project scope and timeline.

Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests

Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur on a daily basis

Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint.

Assist with the planning, tracking, documentation, and status updates for the ongoing projects.

Collaborate with other project managers to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.

Skills:

7+ years of experience in IT with more than 3 years in financial projects with a domain knowledge of Market Risk, Capital markets or Financial Services.

Highly Preferred: Hands on Knowledge of concepts and processes of Market Risk

Experience in Credit Risk or Liquidity Risk domains will be considered but such candidates will have lower priority.

Excellent Stakeholder management

Strong Knowledge of Financial Instruments, Derivatives

Experienced in writing user stories with good acceptance criteria in JIRA

Good understanding of Cloud, ETL and Data warehouse concepts with some hands on experience with data analysis

Experience with managing JIRA boards, Confluence pages, Excel reporting

Good communication and presentation skills

Full-time

Hybrid remote