Lead Technical Program Manager Payments

We are looking for an experienced Technology Project Manager to support our Payments Transformation, partnering with business and technology team members to deliver the strategic High-Value wires payments roadmap. Working with our global Graphite technology component teams, partner applications and testing teams, you’ll help to drive the projects forward, ensuring the clarity of the schedule and scope, managing risks and issues, and communicating status to all stakeholders This role requires a wide range of strengths and capabilities, including the ability to: Partner with business analysts, product and operations to ensure that scope is clear and well documented Work with technology and business teams (AD, QA, UAT, Ops, Product) to produce, update and deliver on a comprehensive project schedule Maintain and monitor list of key project-level dependencies including across application groups and proactively track through to completion. Facilitate key project level meetings and meet the relevant information demands for those. Ensure decisions are made within governance and identified governance meetings have clear agenda, quorum members, reports and minutes published. Drive project adherence to the agreed project lifecycle. Ensure the project adheres to project risk and issue standards and maintain the project risk and issue log (driving remediation/ resolution activities through to closure). Drive effective escalation management of risks and issues from projects and releases into the program. Manage stakeholder communications at all levels across the firm and be responsible for maintaining a project stakeholder and communications plan. Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills: Experience with software development best practices and experience establishing methods, tools, and process improvements for cross-team initiatives Experience managing software projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules 10+ years of professional experience in technology project or program management Experience with Cloud Platform or Cloud technologies Influencing Skills – a proven ability to operate in a highly collaborative, yet decisive and results-oriented manner Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills: Experience of software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including build processes, testing, and operations Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Engineering or a related technical field.