Title: Project Manager
Location: Boston, MA - hybrid onsite
Duration: 6 months, likely to extend
Pay: 80-85/hr

Job Description

Lead day-to-day execution of a highly visible, cross-functional transformation program within Markets Technology.
Bring strong program management, business analysis, governance, and executive communication skills.
Organize complex work and drive progress across a large, matrixed financial institution.
Establish program scope, outcomes, workstreams, milestones, resource needs, and acceptance criteria.
Create and maintain the integrated program plan, roadmap, RAID register, dependency map, decision log, action tracker, and executive status reporting.
Establish effective delivery governance, including working sessions, steering forums, decision rights, escalation paths, and evidence-based closure standards.
Partner with business and technology stakeholders to define current-state processes, future-state requirements, operating impacts, controls, and implementation priorities.
Lead requirements workshops and convert complex discussions into clear requirements, process flows, decisions, owners, and delivery actions.
Coordinate and drive accountability across application, infrastructure, cyber security, data, operations, risk, compliance, audit, finance, procurement, and vendor teams.
Identify delivery risks and dependencies, develop mitigation plans, and escalate issues with clear options and recommendations.
Prepare executive presentations, decision papers, dashboards, meeting materials, and status communications.
Manage program financials, resource forecasts, vendor activities, delivery forecasts, and change control.
Coordinate business readiness, implementation planning, communications, training, testing, controls, and transition to sustainable operations.
Use data, workflow tools, automation, and artificial intelligence responsibly to improve transparency, quality, and delivery speed.

Qualifications & Skills

10+ years of financial program management experience.
Experience managing large-scale programs.
Senior-level program management and business analysis experience.
Financial services / banking experience.
Strong governance, requirements, and project planning skills.
Experience managing RAID, dependencies, risks, milestones, and action items.
Strong executive communication and presentation skills.
Experience working across large, matrixed organizations.
Strong stakeholder, vendor, and cross-functional team management.
Ability to bring structure to ambiguity and drive accountability.
Experience with transformation, technology delivery, and business process change.