About the Role
This role requires thought leadership and the ability to work autonomously while managing multiple mid to large sized and moderately complex processes, products, and programs in the delivery life cycle. It requires oversight of numerous parallel projects and cross-functional domains to influence timelines, expectations, and proactively negotiates across departments to attain business goals while managing overall risk to the bank.
Responsibilities
- Collaborates with leaders, enterprise PMOs, and product management to align strategic objectives and roadmaps.
- Facilitates quarterly and annual planning focused on delivering business value.
- Makes moderate to complex business decisions that could have noticeable impact to department or program results.
- Manages strategic relationships and alignment with peers and leadership.
- Contributes feedback towards defining organizational goals, workforce strategy, and enterprise standards.
- Advocates for adherence to processes and compliance standards.
- Advises leadership and drives adoption of enterprise standards and best practices.
- Owns the complete delivery lifecycle for mid to large size efforts.
- Manages multiple moderately to high complex processes, programs, and products.
- Accountable for scope, roadmaps, budget, staffing, and impediment management.
- Governs the development and execution of large programs.
- Communicates the delivery of programs, driving results to achieve business outcomes.
- Leads cross functional development from design to delivery.
- Strategizes, schedules, and aligns financials and resources for large initiatives.
- Develops methods for monitoring progress and performance of initiatives.
- Examines outcomes to identify potential issues, risks, and areas for improvement.
- Communicates recommendations to relevant stakeholders.
- Supervises program-level financial forecasts and reconciliation efforts.
- Participates in negotiations with external consultants or vendors.
- Collaborates with leaders to manage vendor relationships, optimizing vendor contributions.
- Evaluates opportunities to streamline processes and workflows to improve operational efficiency.
- Implements best practices to drive efficiency and improve time to production.
- Partners with the enterprise PMO to ensure projects meet quality standards and compliance.
- Works with peers and junior staff to drive standardization of delivery practices.
- Drives best practices, governance, compliance and standards across the delivery organization.
Requirements
- Previous oversight of technical or other similar implementations
- Knowledge of SDLC
- Knowledge of Execution Methodologies or Frameworks (Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid)
- Knowledge of end to end delivery lifecycle from system or data design to implementation
- Understands how to collaborate with leadership to define strategy and approach for solving complicated technical problems
- Ability to deliver solutions that solve complex problems, using thought leadership and independent thinking skills
- Ability to lead others in the successful execution and delivery of long term, multi-layered projects and initiatives
Skills
- JIRA
- Collaboration Tools (SharePoint, Confluence)
- Broad knowledge across more than one domain
Experience Level
- 8 years' experience in Project Management
- 12 years' experience in Project Management
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
- High School Diploma or GED/Equivalent
- Bachelors Degree
Benefits
- Competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program
About the Company
- First Citizens Bank is committed to providing a competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates.
