JP Morgan Chase - Project Manager

Organization Description:

Our Corporate Technology team relies on smart, driven people like you to develop applications and provide tech support for all our corporate functions across our network. Your efforts will touch lives all over the financial spectrum and across all our divisions: Global Finance, Corporate Treasury, Risk Management, Human Resources, Compliance, Legal, and within the Corporate Administrative Office. You'll be part of a team specifically built to meet and exceed our evolving technology needs, as well as our technology controls agenda.

Employer Description:

JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent Corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.

About JPMorgan Chase & Co.:

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.3 trillion and operations in more than 60 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management, and private equity. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands.

Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at http://www.jpmorganchase.com/.

Job Description:

- The Reference Data Technology team (part of the CT) provides End to End Client Onboarding solutions across various lines of businesses.

- As a Project Manager/Scrum Master, you'll act as a servant leader for your team(s) by facilitating clear communication to management and to the team. Our Scrum Masters are open, approachable, collaborative, and enjoy working with passionate people.

- They're proactive in solving problems to help their team(s) succeed. The Scrum Master drives Agile and Lean frameworks that result in quality product delivery and continuous improvement. They embrace agility as a practice. The Scrum Master is responsible for removing impediments that hinder the team from reaching their goals and has a flexible approach that enables the team to rapidly respond to changes.

- Also, In the role of Project manager, you'll have to help communicate to senior stakeholders, have excellent Project management, communication skills, Task Management, Risk management skills, negotiation skills, scheduling and lead by example.

- Our culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, and problem solving is essential to our success. We bring people together with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We support teamwork, thinking big, and taking risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on relevant projects, while building an environment that provides support and mentorship needed to learn and grow. We're excited to see what you'll bring to our team.

Responsibilities:

- Works with the Product owner to align team with the product vision, sprint goals, and other necessary information

- Creates an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts

- Champions continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coaches teams to conduct continuous improvement events

- Seeks opportunities for improvement to the overall effectiveness of teams and the organization

- Communicates organizational impediments to leadership; clears impediments for the team

- Embraces the concept of continuous learning in your own journey and instills the same in the team(s) you coach

This role requires a wide variety of strengths and capabilities, including:

- Strong familiarity and adherence to core Agile values and principles

- Experience as a practicing Scrum Master on a team

- Exposure to modern engineering practices like Unit Test-Driven Development, Acceptance Test-Driven Development, and Continuous Integration

- A mindset of servant leadership

- An Agile mindset: \"An attitude that equates failure and problems with opportunities for learning, a belief that we can all improve over time, that our abilities are not fixed but evolve with effort.\" - Linda Rising

- Expert with Agile and Scrum framework and its application in Product Development and delivery organization

- Ability to coach and mentor

- Ability to collaborate with and influence people at various levels

- Sound understanding of Scaling framework such as LeSS

- Leverage skills from coaching, facilitation, conflict resolution, and more to serve the team(s)

Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree or Masters with 10 to 16 years analytical work experience

- Minimum 6+ years work experience as a Project Manager/Scrum Master in Information Technology

- Minimum 6+ years experience in understanding of business modeling concepts, business systems development and business systems analysis

- Experience with SCRUM or agile based methodologies

Essential skills:

- Experience in Agile development techniques like Scrum and Test Driven Development

- Very Strong written and verbal communication skills

- Negotiation and influencing skills

- Excellent organization skills, Ability to handle multiple threads parallelly

- Proven analytical, organization and planning skills

- Good Agile Hygiene practices handle multiple mini projects parallel, Excellent organization skills

- Change management experience

- Ability to work independently and manage requests from multiple groups

- Good at-risk assessment and implementing Risk mitigation models

- Prepare presentations for Senior Management and comfortable in a client facing role.

- Ability to think strategically but have strong attention to detail

- Team player, with strong interpersonal and networking skills

Desirable:

- Excellent communication skills and proven ability to develop collaborative relationships with business partners are essential Subject Matter Expertise within Investment bank / commercial Bank, Client onboarding, KYC

- Demonstrate experience of working in a BDD environment.

- Take ownership of ensuring the requirement is supported and built end to end solution

- A track record of defining and successful delivery of new solutions from concept to launch and rollout

- Execution orientated and results driven

- Proven problem solving and analytical skills

- A delivery focused approach to work and the ability to work without direction

- Experience in developing test strategy and experience in TDD

- Development experience with Oracle, Unix a major plus

JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.

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