Information Technology Project Manager

Security Service Federal Credit Union; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Security Service Federal Credit Union seeks an experienced Project Manager to oversee retail banking system development and vendor implementations. You will lead cross-functional teams, manage scope, budget, and schedule, and provide clear status reporting to stakeholders.

Strong communication and organizational skills are essential to meet deadlines in a financial services setting. The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's in IS or Business, PMP or equivalent certification, and at least ten years in

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IS or Business or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams to drive projects to completion.
• Develop and maintain project schedules and work breakdown structures.
• Manage scope, budget, schedule, quality and risk; report status to stakeholders.
• Coordinate communications, meetings, and status reports with project sponsors and teams.
• Ensure on-time delivery within budget and quality expectations.

Skills

Project management

PMI-PMP

Stakeholder management

Scheduling

Budget & cost control

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree in IS or Business

Tools

Microsoft Project

Job description

Manages day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of retail banking system development and vendor implementation projects. Assumes full responsibility for the following project management areas: scope management, project planning and scheduling, resource management, risk and issue management, communication management, project monitoring/controlling and project status reporting. Leads cross-functional teams to successfully drive projects to completion. Creates and maintains project task schedules. Captures detailed work breakdown structures from SMEs (subject matter experts), captures work estimates, sequence work items and obtains team member commitments from functional managers in a matrixed environment. Identifies internal and external task dependencies in order to define the project’s critical path. Measures and monitors progress of detailed tasks, milestones and action items to ensure that the project is delivered on time, within budget, and at a level of quality consistent with constituent expectations. Identifies and balances scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk constraints. Makes adjustments as necessary ensuring adherence to scope and work item change control procedures. Prepares and delivers communications including status reports, meeting minutes, presentations, stakeholder meetings, and information regarding issues and risks and ensures that communications are delivered to appropriate project stakeholders. Completes any other job related duties needed to help drive to our Vision, fulfill our Purpose, and abide by our Organization’s Values.**

REQUIRED:

• Bachelor's degree in IS or Business related field or equivalent education and/or experience preferably in a financial services environment.
• PMI-PMP (Project Management Professional) or other equivalent project management certification demonstrating knowledge and experience in industry accepted project management best practices
• Minimum of ten years of project management experience in a financial services software development, technical integration or business operations environment.
• Strong knowledge of distributed and mainframe infrastructure, technology and concepts with ability to quickly grasp new technologies, applications and concepts and apply them as required to implement solutions
• Strong writing, listening and communication skills with an ability to foster and cultivate professional relationships with project sponsors, stakeholders and resource managers within a functional matrix organizational structure.
• Strong planning and organizational skills with a laser-focused attention to detail and proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Work flexible hours as needed, including possible weekends.