Contract IT Project Manager/Scrum Master for Risk Technology

MUST be local to New York City, Hybrid Schedule at least 3 days onsite

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced IT Project Manager / Scrum Master to join the Risk technology PMO team for managing Market Risk projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the IT PM and Scrum Master for one or more agile teams, ensuring agile practices are followed and understood.
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, including daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and sprint reviews.
• Assist in tracking and removing impediments, fostering an environment for high team performance and continuous improvement.
• Manage project scope and timeline.
• Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests
• Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur on a daily basis
• Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint.
• Assist with the planning, tracking, documentation, and status updates for the ongoing projects.
• Collaborate with other project managers to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.

Skills:

• 7+ years of experience in IT with more than 3 years in financial projects with a domain knowledge of Market Risk, Capital markets or Financial Services.
• Highly Preferred: Hands on Knowledge of concepts and processes of Market Risk
• Experience in Credit Risk or Liquidity Risk domains will be considered but such candidates will have lower priority.
• Excellent Stakeholder management
• Strong Knowledge of Financial Instruments, Derivatives
• Experienced in writing user stories with good acceptance criteria in JIRA
• Good understanding of Cloud, ETL and Data warehouse concepts with some hands on experience with data analysis
• Experience with managing JIRA boards, Confluence pages, Excel reporting
• Good communication and presentation skills