Associate Director Program Management

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities?
Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and encouraging team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We're committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to crafting a workplace that looks like the world that we serve. Pay and Benefits:
- Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive.
- Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location.
- Pension / Retirement benefits
- Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
- DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).
The impact you will have in this role:
As an Associate Director Program Manager, you will establish and maintain working relationship with technology management, business management, program sponsors, vendors, and business clients. Act as a communication channel between Engineering and Agile scrum masters for ongoing program management status and issues, managing communication channels, and risk escalation. Proactively identify and resolve issues that would present a risk to program/project implementation across geographies. Promote effective teamwork, educate peers or assigned subject matter expertise areas, and manage interpersonal issues.
Your Primary Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the execution of an individual project or multiple smaller projects
- Lead cross-functional team to meet the success criteria for the project.
- Actively manage and execute against overall project delivery plans, which includes schedule, milestones, critical path and delivery expectations; Create, track, report and monitor project metrics.
- Negotiate time, scope, resources with project sponsors and functional managers to ensure timely deliverable of each project.
- Communicate information between project team and stakeholders to ensure alignment.
- Clearly track, report and communicate regular project status (including scope, schedule and budget) to project stakeholders, management and established governance groups
- Identify, document and manage project issues and risks; Mitigate, resolve or escalate appropriately when support is needed from management.
- Track all projects against approved budgets and report on actuals, forecasts, and variances. Develop action to bring projects on or under budget unless a variance is approved.
- Coordinate and update all project documentation; ensure reviews and signoff/approvals.
- Manage project site and artifacts.
- Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately
- Mitigates risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.
**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **
Talents Needed for Success:
- Minimum of 8 years of related experience
- Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience.
Nice to have skills:
- Accountability: Pays close attention to detail and accurately reports status of risk items.
- Communications: Communicates with transparency to all levels of personnel
- Self-Starter: Works independently with minimal direction
- Fast Learner: Learns quickly in a fast-paced environment.
- Works well as part of team. Self-motivated, tenacious learner
- Curious and agile mindset
- Strong communicator who is a self-starter and highly motivated individual
- Able to support multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced work environment.
- Able to provide adequate mentorship & governance to project teams during component integration.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and leadership skills.
The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.