EE Project Manager & Coach - SVP

Citigroup Inc.; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company located in Belfast is seeking an EE Project Manager & Coach to lead complex enterprise-wide engineering projects. The role involves mentoring teams, managing key stakeholder relationships, and promoting a culture of excellence. Candidates should have a degree and substantial experience in project management and technical coaching. The position offers a hybrid working model and generous benefits, including 27 days annual leave and a competitive salary.

Benefits

27 days annual leave

Discretional annual performance-related bonus

Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Pension Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Qualifications

• Experience mentoring and improving team performance.
• Proven experience demonstrating ability to influence and guide through the project lifecycle.
• Successful track record in delivering technical coaching, workshops, and programs.
• Demonstrated ability to drive change and navigate complex organizational dynamics.
• Passionate about supporting technical career development of others.
• Good knowledge of the software development process.

Responsibilities

• Lead high impact engineering excellence project delivery, including coaching.
• Design & deliver engaging project coaching material that strengthens strategic thinking.
• Build relationships with stakeholders to ensure alignment for EE initiatives.
• Promote a culture of engineering excellence across all workstreams.
• Understand how project leadership integrates within the technology function.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Project management

Technical coaching

Negotiation

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience

Potential Master's degree

Job description

EE Project Manager & Coach

The role of technologists is evolving rapidly in today’s dynamic market. The Engineering Excellence (EE) department within the Chief Technology Office aims to support the firm’s goal of thriving as one team on a common mission through attracting, retaining, and driving the growth of top technology talent within a culture where innovation and excellence are not just encouraged, but expected.

The scope of Engineering Excellence is vast, with programs and products at various stages of maturity. Efforts are concentrated in three key areas - empowering engineers to advance a technical career, boosting engineer productivity and fostering strategic collaboration.

Our initiatives are used by over 50,000 engineers; we are passionate about engineers fulfilling their technical career aspirations here at Citi and providing them with the tools and metrics that enable them to learn as well as demonstrate their expertise and support their continuous improvement.

EE Project Manager & Coach contributes to the delivery of several key projects and programs, including coaching, driving operational excellence, executing project plans and ensuring delivery exceeds stakeholder expectations.

This includes influencing and leading teams of engineers and internal stakeholders to drive lasting behaviour change and to promote a culture of excellence in the engineering community globally.

Major elements of the role include:

• Lead project management associated with a set of high-profile complex enterprise-wide engineering projects defined and executed by our highly talented engineering leaders
• Develop detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans and status reports
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and contributes to defining EE standards
• Facilitate & lead workshops & coaching sessions to enable technical excellence across all workstreams
• Design & deliver EE coaching & drive tech strategy throughout the project lifecycle towards continuous improvement and technical excellence
• Provide strategic influence and exercise control over resources, budget management and planning while monitoring end results
• Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, as well as communicate with external parties as necessary
• Facilitate alumni networks, build and maintain relationships with external professionals & industry groups
• Provides evaluative judgment based on analysis of factual information in complicated, unique and dynamic situations; draws on diverse range of internal and external sources

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead role in high impact engineering excellence project delivery, including EE coaching
• Design & deliver engaging EE project coaching material that strengthens strategic thinking
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders across the organisation to ensure alignment and support for EE initiatives
• Promote an uphold culture of engineering excellence across all workstreams
• Demonstrates an in-depth understanding of how project leadership integrates within the overall technology function to achieve objectives; requires a good understanding of the industry

Characteristics:

• Able to negotiate and influence at all levels; Collaborative by nature, builds partnerships across the firm
• Provides constructive feedback & inspires growth
• Creative and innovative, brings different angles to problems and provides new solutions
• Excellent communicator, both written and verbal
• An advocate of inclusion and diversity in everything they do

Experience:

• Experience mentoring and improving team performance
• Skilled at stakeholder management, proven experience demonstrating ability to influence and guide through the project lifecycle
• Successful track record in delivering technical coaching, workshops and programs
• Demonstrated ability to drive change and navigate complex organization dynamics
• Demonstrated passion for supporting technical career development of others
• Good knowledge of the software development process

What we’ll provide you

By joining Citi Belfast, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• A discretional annual performance related bonus
• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Masters degree

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

Job Family Group: Technology

Job Family: Technology Project Management

Time Type: Full time

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