PMO Lead - Infrastructure Platforms - Vice President

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services firm is seeking a PMO Lead for its Infrastructure Platforms team. This dynamic role involves managing complex technology projects, ensuring alignment of cloud programs with business goals, and fostering cross-functional collaboration. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience leading large-scale programs, strong project management expertise, and the ability to influence stakeholders effectively. Advanced skills in analytical reasoning and stakeholder management are crucial, along with experience in tools like Jira and Confluence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in leading complex, large-scale technology programs.
• Advanced expertise in stakeholder management and relationship building.
• Strong project management skills with issue and risk management experience.
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities.
• Experience with analytical reasoning and data visualisation.

Responsibilities

• Support the evolution of the Cloud Foundations Strategic Delivery Portfolio.
• Identify and mitigate risks to maintain project momentum.
• Manage and optimise tools for visibility on project status.
• Enhance efficiency through data-driven decision-making.
• Foster collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Analytical reasoning

Project management

Change management

Collaboration

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Monday.com

Job description

As a PMO Lead in Infrastructure Platforms' Cloud Foundations Strategic Delivery team, you will assist in the successful delivery of complex technology projects and programs that will help reach business goals across the firm. You will become an authority on cloud program details and build and maintain processes and tools to drive delivery optimisations that work across the cloud programs. You will work closely with program delivery leads to ensure that the cloud program data is represented and reported to key stakeholders appropriately. Your strong analytical reasoning and adaptability skills will enable you to navigate through ambiguity and change, ensuring that technology initiatives align with business goals. With advanced communication and stakeholder management abilities, you will foster productive working relationships and influence decision-making to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. This is a dynamic role and we're looking for someone ready to take on that challenge.

Responsibilities

• Organised and customer focused, putting processes in place that enable colleagues to focus on delivery whilst enabling them to meaningfully participate within the process. Support the evolution of the Cloud Foundations Strategic Delivery Portfolio, including process, tools, metrics and measurements.
• Identifies methods for collecting portfolio data, performs data analyses and articulates findings. Conducts investigation and analyses of data to propose solutions based on data findings.
• Identify and mitigate risks, proactively addressing potential roadblocks and implementing contingency plans to maintain project and program momentum.
• Manage and optimise tools to ensure transparency on portfolio and project status.
• Assess bottlenecks in work processes within teams and projects to streamline and simplify workflow. Seek and build in continuous feedback to keep processes optimal.
• Foster collaboration with team members and stakeholders to develop and execute new ideas and approaches, leveraging change management principles to achieve processes improvement goals. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product, and business stakeholders, ensuring alignment with overall business goals.
• Independently project manage portfolio efforts spanning all phases of the lifecycle, including planning, execution, tracking and closure.
• Utilise advanced analytical reasoning to assess program performance, identify areas for improvement, and implement data-driven optimisations to enhance efficiency and effectiveness. Fosters a culture of continuous learning and innovation within the team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience or equivalent expertise of leading complex, cross-functional, large-scale technology programs and portfolios, in a large organisation. Finance industry and infrastructure platforms experience preferred.
• Advanced expertise in stakeholder management, with the ability to establish productive working relationships and influence decision-making across cross-functional teams and clients at all levels of the organisation.
• Advanced experience in utilising technical fluency, including knowledge of vendor products and managing vendor relations, to enable on-demand access to shared pools of applications and services.
• Strong competency in all phases of project management, including issue and risk identification and management, change management, tracking dependencies and communicating overall status. Proven track record of effectively managing, tracking and reporting on project status, resources, budgets, and high-performing teams in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• Demonstrated proficiency in applying analytical reasoning and problem-solving techniques to break down business, technical, or operational objectives into manageable tasks and activities. Data-driven decision-maker with experience of leveraging data visualisation tools to help influence stakeholders.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and presentation skills. A strategic thinker who drives results through collaboration.
• Experience of developing and using program and portfolio management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Monday.com, and using dashboards.
• Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills: PMP and/or Agile methodologies and frameworks.

About J.P. Morgan

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives. Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.