Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced Project Manager to lead the end-to-end delivery of data quality and remediation initiatives. The role will be responsible for project planning, governance, reporting, stakeholder coordination, vendor management, and change control for production data correction activities. The successful candidate will coordinate with IT, Operations, Customer Service, and third-party service providers to ensure effective project execution and proper handover of implemented controls and processes to business-as-usual (BAU) teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish the engagement, including project charter, scope baseline, project plan, governance cadence, and RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies) log.
- Conduct weekly project status meetings and periodic steering committee meetings with business and technical stakeholders.
- Coordinate access, system environments, and required approvals with IT teams, including third-party vendor support for data ingestion logic concerns and necessary fixes.
- Manage change control procedures for every production data correction activity, ensuring proper approvals, back-out plans, and audit trails.
- Track and report remediation progress, including records identified, corrected, revalidated, and outstanding.
- Escalate risks and issues promptly, including data privacy exposure, resource conflicts, and vendor dependencies.
- Manage stakeholders across different business and technical functions, ensuring neutral coordination and alignment among all parties.
- Oversee the handover of implemented controls, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and monitoring activities to business-as-usual (BAU) owners.
- Prepare the project close-out report and ensure proper documentation of project outcomes and deliverables.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 8 years of experience in IT project or program delivery.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience leading data migration, data quality, or data remediation projects.
- Experience in financial services, brokerage, or banking back-office environments.
- Working knowledge of SQL Server environments, batch processing, and data reconciliation.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience coordinating business teams, technical teams, and third-party vendors.
- Familiarity with the Data Privacy Act of 2012 and BSP/SEC regulatory expectations is an advantage.
- PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project management certification is preferred.