Contract IT Project Manager/Scrum Master for Risk Technology
30 days ago
New York
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., • 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