Senior IT Project Manager

Senior IT Project Manager

Location Boston

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The Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston is a leading provider of wholesale funding for housing and community finance in New England serving more than 420 financial institutions across the region. The Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston is committed to making New England a better place to live and do business, and our employees are integral to our success. As a cooperative, we are owned by more than 420 banks, credit unions, insurance companies, and community development financial institutions that access tens of billions of dollars of our reliable, wholesale funding each year. Our funds are a vital resource that helps our members succeed, provide families with safe, decent affordable housing, and generate economic development that creates jobs in communities throughout our region.

Our highly skilled team of 220 is innovative, collaborative, and passionate about the work we do. We seek other professionals excited to share their knowledge, talent, and passion for our mission to join our team. We offer opportunities for career development, robust benefits, and a work-life balance.

Position Summary

The Senior IT Project Manager is responsible for planning and managing small- to large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects from initiation through to closure, managing scope, budget, resources, timelines, milestones, deliverables, reporting, and cross-functional dependencies throughout the project lifecycle. This position requires strong project leadership, governance, stakeholder management, risk management, and project delivery expertise while ensuring project deliverables meet quality, regulatory, and compliance standards. This role is responsible for leading cross-functional teams, including external vendors and consultants, and building strong relationships with senior leadership, project sponsors, and project stakeholders.

This role will have a hybrid work schedule in our Boston office in accordance with the Bank’s Hybrid Work Program. More time will be expected in the office to support onboarding initially.

Anticipated Pay Range

The anticipated base pay range for this role is $119,000 - $195,500

This role is based in Boston with weekly in-office expectations. The base pay posted represents the annual base pay range or hourly wage range that we expect to offer for this job opportunity. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including relevant experience, required skills and other relevant factors. The range noted here is not indicative of all positions in the job grade within which this position falls.

All Bank full-time positions are eligible to participate in our annual incentive program and our robust total rewards offerings, in addition to the base pay.

For more information, visit Careers - FHLBank Boston (https://www.fhlbboston.com/about-us/careers/)

Specific Responsibilities

• Plan and manage projects through project initiation, planning, execution, control, monitoring, implementation, and closing phases.

• Lead multiple complex projects concurrently.

• Develop and maintain comprehensive project schedules, budgets, and resource forecasts.

• Manage project scope, timelines, milestones, deliverables, and dependencies.

• Demonstrate executive presence and drive project governance with project sponsors and project steering committees; produce concise, executive-level reporting.

• Ensure effective project status communications from status reporting to executive-level reporting; effective risk and issue mitigation communications.

• Manage resource capacity and utilization.

• Ensure adherence to project management methodologies, SDLC processes, and governance standards.

• Ensure projects are meeting regulatory, compliance, and risk standards.

• Serve as a mentor to project management colleagues.

• Contribute to continuous improvement efforts in the project management practice.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, or a related field.

Experience

• 10+ years of project management experience as an IT project manager, senior IT project manager, or IT program manager.

• Proven experience managing technology, business transformation, or operational projects.

• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies; e.g., Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid.

• Strong verbal, written, and presentation communication skills.

• Experience in financial services, banking, or other regulated industries.

• PMP certification and/or Scrum Master certification.

• Experience with Microsoft Project, Microsoft Planner, Azure DevOps, and other project management tools.

Knowledge/Skills

• Solid understanding of industry standard SDLC, IT functions and roles.

• Solid understanding and experience with both Waterfall and Agile (Scrum) project methodologies.

• Solid understanding of Financial Services Industry and enabling systems

• Outstanding interpersonal skills that enable the motivation of teams and the ability to influence management on the need to pursue new opportunities

• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills required. Ability to communicate effectively and in a timely manner with all project participants and stakeholders is crucial.

• Capable of multi-tasking and managing several initiatives at once keeping appropriate priorities in view.

• Strong collaboration skills with customers, suppliers and consultants. Maintain effective communication between information systems personnel and the users of information services and systems.

• Ability to provide a central point of contact for users to address questions, report problems, and submit requests related to Information Technology. Maintain sensitive and collaborative relationships with IT staff. Maintain cordial and effective relationships with employees, consultants, vendors, and other agencies within and outside the Bank.

• Excellent interpersonal skills.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we strongly encourage applicants from every ethnicity, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, disability, veteran or parental status and sexual orientation.

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Applications are being accepted on the Careers page of our website: www.fhlbboston.com

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