PMO Lead - Infrastructure Platforms - Vice President

J.P. Morgan; Greater London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm is seeking a PMO Lead to guide infrastructure platform projects. You will support cloud program delivery by managing complex technology initiatives, optimizing processes, and fostering collaboration with stakeholders. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in project management, strong analytical skills, and proficiency in tools like Jira and Confluence. This role offers a dynamic environment where innovation and collaboration are key to success.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in leading complex technology programs.
• Proficient in stakeholder management and building relationships.
• Strong competency in all phases of project management.

Responsibilities

• Support the evolution of the Cloud Foundations Strategic Delivery Portfolio.
• Conduct data analysis to propose solutions based on findings.
• Manage risks and implement contingency plans for projects.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Analytical reasoning

Collaboration

Project management

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Monday.com

Job description

Leverage your deep PMO expertise and leadership to guide cutting-edge infrastructure platform projects, fostering growth and innovation in a dynamic environment.

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.

Job 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.
• Utilize advanced analytical reasoning to assess program performance, identify areas for improvement, and implement data-driven optimizations to enhance efficiency and effectiveness. Fosters a culture of continuous learning and innovation within the team

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 5+ years of experience or equivalent expertise of leading complex, cross-functional, large-scale technology programs and portfolios, in a large organization. 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 organization.
• Advanced experience in utilizing 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 visualization 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