IT Project Manager

Role: IT Project Manager, Charlotte, NC

Location: Charlotte, NC (Onsite)

Job Type: Contract

The role:

Responsibilities:

• Plan, execute, and deliver projects from inception to completion related to a known technology, product, or program. Describes and maintains the integrated plan that accounts for internal/external dependencies, differing delivery approaches, numerous constraints, and contingency for unplanned delays.
• Secures resources, scopes efforts, outlines priorities and establishes delivery milestones.
• Proactively manage the end-to-end delivery of engineering work through the organization and all dependent organizations, reporting out progress, ensuring dependencies are covered, overseeing the gaps between teams, processes, and systems, while removing all blocking issues leading to a successful delivery. Accelerates progress by driving crisp, timely decisions.
• Understands their program, product, or O&T domain. Sufficient depth/credibility to be effective with teams they work with. Can competently represent team’s services to stakeholders and other teams.
• Uses runtime metrics of their services in market as a feedback loop in to the backlog and balances the priorities against new feature requests
• Owns and manages product documentation ensuring features and associated
• Continuously monitors feature development at the feature level adjusting throughout implementation as needed
• Reviews product demo against acceptance criteria for the feature setPrepares launches and monitors platform performances, adoption, and operational health for feature sets

Requirements:

• Ability to plan, execute, monitor, and close projects effectively.
• Understanding of banking systems, core banking, payment processing, and financial regulations.
• Familiarity with banking platforms, APIs, and software architecture.
• Proven experience with methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or Kanban.
• Map legacy payment formats to ISO 20022 message structures for Fedwire Funds Service and international payments.
• Experience in Fedwire, SWIFT, RTP, and ISO 20022 payment processing
• Strong scope, schedule, and risk management skills.
• Clear articulation of project goals, status updates, and technical requirements to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent negotiation and stakeholder management abilities.
• Ability to gather and analyze banking business requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Identification and mitigation of project and technical risks, especially in a highly regulated environment.