Senior Vice President IT Project/Program Group Manager -Hybrid Irving TX or Tampa FL

Company: Citigroup Inc.
Location: Irving
Posted on: January 25, 2023

Job Description:

Global Functions Technology (GFT) - IT Project/Program Group Manager - C14Global Functions Technology is a diverse organization comprised of more than 15,000 talented professionals with some of the brightest minds - all working together to realize Citi's Vision of growth and economic progress. As a group, we partner with the Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Human Resources teams to drive the delivery of innovative technology solutions using common data, analytics, and platforms. Our technology operates in real-time environments, capturing and managing market, transaction, and accounting data, as well as the data from millions of customers daily. Our solutions cover all products and geographies in which Citi does business. We are the backbone for reporting across the bank, satisfying our regulatory commitments, enabling our businesses to be nimbler and helping to safeguard customer assets through highly effective controls.IT Project/Program Group Manager is accountable for management of complex/critical/large professional disciplinary areas. Requires a comprehensive understanding of multiple areas within a function and how they interact in order to achieve the objectives of the function. Applies in-depth understanding of the business impact of technical contributions. Generally accountable for delivery of a full range of services to one or more businesses/ geographic regions. Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level. Some external communication may be necessary. Accountable for the end results of an area. Exercises control over resources, policy formulation and planning. Primarily affects a sub-function. Involved in short- to medium-term book of work planning for multiple areas. Full management responsibility of a team or multiple teams, including management of people, budget and planning, to include performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary actions and terminations and budget approval. -Responsibilities:

• Accountable for managing the lifecycle for a complex cross functional body of work that has a long-term positive impact on the company.
• Able to define and organize the program, outline tenets, analyze data, drive performance improvements, and influence resource allocation for all stages of execution.
• May plan the associated technology roadmap for Global Digital and influence dependent organization's roadmaps by contributing to their planning documents and goal setting exercises.
• May focus on a single product, focus in a key technology area or focus more broadly, managing larger initiatives that span organizations and geographies in support of a larger cross-cutting business goal.
• May assist towards the delivery of an organizational goal.
• Drive and influence transformational change in the evolution of our end-to-end product delivery using agile development methodology.
• Look forward 1-3 years to drive organizational roadmaps that enable programs and products to be successful in the long term.
• Have a comprehensive understanding of the business domain, the systems, and the products in your space; understand their accountabilities, boundaries, limitations, scale factors.
• Understand the reasons behind strategic decisions while providing a long-term perspective for business and technology choices.
• Drive mindful discussion with business and technical stakeholders that lead to timely decisions. Collaborate with clients and technology teams to determine what projects move forward in what priority order. Make smart trade-off decisions balancing efforts, delivery timelines, features, and technical constraints. Identify and remove blockers and always find the path forward in challenging situations.
• Create plans that have a clear path to delivery helping the teams organize for delivery while maximizing resources for the greater good of the organization.
• Understand technical program management and engineering best practices and apply best practices to the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for projects based on experiences with a number of agile and blended approaches, as well effectively coordinating the implementations across teams using very different approaches
• Excellent communicator and comfortable communicating to all levels of the organization both in writing and in person. Articulate progress against goals, scorecard metrics, and committed roadmaps.
• Active participant in the community sharing your Citibank program management knowledge within your organization and more broadly presenting at both internal and external events.
• Work across organizations looking for ways to align teams, technologies (i.e. the infrastructure used to build/deploy/operate services), and organizations to simple coherent approaches that optimize organizational structures and operating mechanisms. Recognize prior failure patterns and help teams avoid repeating these mistakes.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.
• Participate in Agile Transformation process across multiple global development teams
• Prepare executive level presentations for both technical and business leadership on program/project status, risk and controls issues, and resource/finance related mattersQualifications:
  • 10+ Program Management experience
  • 8+ years of relevant experience in a product line management, e-commerce, and/or strategic planning role.
  • 8+ years of experience with managing finances, resources, and budgets in a technology organization
  • 4+ years of experience writing technical documentation and process flow diagrams.
  • Experience in regulated space (ie Sox/PCI/GDPR) is highly preferred
  • Has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products / services in a high growth environment where priorities shift rapidly.
  • Experience with managing finances, resources, and budgets in a technology organization
  • Ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases.
  • First-class leadership and influencing skills, including experience managing a Tech Team
  • Demonstrated interpersonal and talent management skills, including the ability to identify and develop product management talent.
  • Proficient in MS Office applications, MS Project, Power Point, MS Excel including Macros.
  • Stays abreast of current industry trends and new technology through professional associations, trade journals, networking, and associated training and seminars.
  • Scrum certification preferred
  • PMP preferredEducation:
    • Bachelor's degree/University degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or equivalent experience-------------------------------------------------Job Family Group: Technology-------------------------------------------------Job Family:Digital Software Engineering------------------------------------------------------Time Type:Full time------------------------------------------------------Primary Location:Irving Texas United States------------------------------------------------------Primary Location Salary Range:$163,980.00 - $245,970.00------------------------------------------------------Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.Citigroup Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Citi") invite all qualified interested applicants to apply for career opportunities. If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review .View the "" poster. View the .View the .View the -----------------------------Effective November 1, 2021, Citi requires that all successful applicants for positions located in the United States or Puerto Rico be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment and provide proof of such vaccination prior to commencement of employment.

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