Technical project manager with Risk exp

Job Title: Technical project manager with Risk exp

Location: Jersey City, NJ/onsite

Position Type: Full time/Permanent role

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills:

Required Skills

-7-9 years of Technical Project Management experience within Banking or Financial Services.

-Strong experience in Risk Management, Controls, Compliance, and Audit support.

-Proven experience managing medium to large-scale technology programs.

-Hands-on experience with Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and SDLC methodologies.

-Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.

-Experience managing RAID logs, remediation plans, and governance reporting.

-Knowledge of Change Management, Release Management, and Incident Management processes.

-Expertise in JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, SharePoint, and PowerPoint.

-Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills

Roles & Responsibilities

Project & Program Management

-Manage end-to-end delivery of technology projects across multiple teams and business units.

-Drive project planning, execution, status reporting, budgeting, dependency management, and risk mitigation.

-Develop and maintain project roadmaps, milestones, and delivery timelines.

-Coordinate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Architects, Development, QA, and Infrastructure teams.

-Facilitate governance forums, steering committee meetings, and executive-level reporting.

Risk & Control Management

-Identify, assess, and mitigate project, operational, technology, and regulatory risks.

-Maintain RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) logs and ensure timely remediation.

-Partner with Enterprise Risk, Compliance, Audit, Information Security, and Control Functions.

-Lead risk assessments, control evaluations, issue management, and corrective action planning.

-Ensure adherence to client and regulatory requirements including SOX, FFIEC, OCC, and enterprise risk governance standards.

-Support audits, regulatory reviews, and control testing activities.

Agile Delivery & Governance

-Drive Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Daily Standups, Reviews, and Retrospectives.

-Monitor delivery metrics, sprint health, velocity, and project KPIs.

-Manage stakeholder expectations and communicate project health effectively.

-Ensure alignment with SDLC, change management, release management, and environment management processes. Technical Leadership

-Work closely with Engineering and Architecture teams to understand technical dependencies and implementation plans.

-Manage integration projects involving cloud, APIs, data platforms, middleware, and enterprise applications.

-Review technical designs and identify delivery risks, capacity constraints, and operational impacts.

-Support production readiness reviews and post-implementation monitoring.