Senior Technology Project Manager

As a Senior Technical Project Manager supporting the Back Office Technology division at Raymond James, the Senior Project Manager will assist in managing multiple CTB and RTB projects for Middle and Back Office projects which will have a significant impact on business processes and technology used firm wide.

Manages complex projects from proposal and requirements definition to project planning and implementation, using broad and extensive input from industry and/or business unit subject matter experts. Influences strategic direction and develops tactical plans with substantial latitude. Provides comprehensive solutions to complex problems and has extensive contact with internal clients and the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Candidate will work under the direction of the Senior Leader and must be able to operate within a high-risk, complex IT environment.

• Conducts preliminary investigation for all project requests by reviewing requirements and specifications to ensure they are aligned with organizational priorities, business objectives and are the most efficient usage of resources while not compromising value/quality.

• Provides a proactive interface between project stakeholders and senior management to ensure complete and accurate definitions of business requirements and delivery of business applications.

• Develops, prepares, presents, and maintains project plans, including staffing requirements, cost estimates, detailed budgets and work breakdown structures and schedules. Monitor projects progress and maintains documentation/reports for impacted consumers.

• Performs project risk assessments, including identifying key risk factors, providing effective mitigation strategies, and assigning contingency action plans to both schedules and budgets.

• Manages projects and teams, including applying established methodologies, using change control templates and processes; managing time and recording activities using defined scheduling tools; monitoring budgets; coordinating resource acquisition and utilization; maintaining precise documentation/artifacts required by PMO and Internal Audit; serving as a liaison with internal customers and external suppliers; and communicating regularly with project stakeholders.

• Delivers systems on appropriate platforms in compliance with established technology standards, including monitoring testing, executing quality assurance checks, and ensuring information technology acceptance criteria is met prior to implementation.

• Manages all aspects of the project budget including creating and maintaining resource allocations and actively tracking costs to the approved budget.

• Partners with other functional areas to accomplish objectives.

Skills/Previous Experience:

• Ideally eight (8) to ten (10) years of relevant experience in project management preferred or any equivalent combination of experience, education and/or training approved by Human Resources.

• Strong command of project management, including creating and maintaining accurate project plans, dependency mapping, critical path, and milestone tracking.

• Proven experience managing projects in financial services technology, ideally in Back Office or Middle Office environments.

• Preferred familiarity with money movement systems (e.g., ACH, wire transfers) and/or digital documentation and workflow platforms (e.g Docusign).

• Working knowledge of Waterfall methodology and the ability to run Waterfall, Kanban and Agile projects.

• Proficiency with project management tools such as MS Project, Jira, Smartsheet, or similar, plus Confluence or SharePoint for documentation.

• Experience with the SDLC and coordinating with development, business analyst, and QA/testing teams through UAT and release.

• Skill in risk, issue, and change management, with clear status reporting to senior stakeholders.

• Partner with stakeholders to prioritize team initiatives and align work to business objectives.

• Proven ability with resource allocation and budget planning.

Knowledge of the following:

• Ability to read, analyze, interpret/link and apply knowledge to assignments.

• Use collaborative skills to accomplish work as a team.

• Detailed oriented with a big-picture orientation.

• Application development and project life cycle methodologies and standards.

• Project selection and approvals; budgeting and business case preparation and analysis; and project initiation and planning, including work breakdown structures and forecasting.

• Experience managing large complex release cycles highly preferred.

• Concepts of risk management, issue tracking, change management and requirements gathering.

• Information technology support and technical documentation.

Licenses/Certifications:

• None required.

• PMP or equivalent certification highly preferred.

• CSM or equivalent certification highly preferred.