at Northern Trust Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
About Northern Trust:
Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.
Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
Senior Technology Program Manager
WHO WE ARE:
Northern Trust provides innovative financial services and guidance to corporations, institutions and affluent families and individuals globally. With 130 years of financial experience and nearly 20,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service. Today, we are going through a metamorphosis -starting with our Wealth Management business where we are embracing Agile ways of working and exploring new technologies like cloud, analytics, microservices architecture, etc. Last but not least, our advanced Digital design systems enable us to put our valued customers at the heart of our user experience.
WHO YOU ARE:
As a Senior Program Manager, you will work closely with business, product and technology teams to drive the execution of Global Family Office (GFO) initiatives and deliver business value to our clients. You will be interacting with executive and leadership teams as part of the frequent check-in of the program status. You will be working with diverse global talent as part of this program.
Furthermore, you bring:
Expertise in program management of large scale application transformation
Agile experience managing several feature teams and shared services
Experience in the financial services industry, ideally in the High Net worth / Ultra High Net worth segments.
Extensive experience with forecast and budget management for complex initiatives with multiple teams and vendors
Experience running Executive leadership and stakeholder presentations
Understanding of technology interdependencies
Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams from Product, Design, Business and IT
Experience with facilitating agile ceremonies, managing a backlog/release plan, tracking team level metrics, removing blockers
Experience working with global delivery teams including vendors
Experience in status reporting at various levels
Experience in collaboration and productivity tools like Clarity, Beeline, Azure Boards, Confluence, Office 365
WHAT YOU'LL DO:
Interact with business, product & technology teams to deliver business value to our clients
Provides leadership support to staff related to agile development
Contributes to an open culture that enables employees' development through direct but kind feedback, promotes diverse perspectives and fosters a sense of curiosity and optimism
Lead implementation teams to ensure quality, completeness and timeliness of solution delivery.
Lead cross-functional and technical agile teams to deliver client experience, stable platform, automation led CI/D and empower innovation
Serve as first-line of escalation for the program delivery teams
Promote self-managing teams
Foster the culture of learning to nurture a learning...
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