VP, Scrum Master (Wealth Management)

Job description

​Roles & Responsibilities

• Prepare project feasibility studies, cost-benefit analysis and proposals and obtain required approvals from appropriate IT management and project sponsors

• Establish project plans, resources, budgets, and timeframes, and assign tasks

• Identify, track, and communicate project progress, milestones, deliverables changes and dependencies within the schedule, costs, issues, and risks

• Manage project team’s performance of project tasks, provide technical advice and guidance, schedule assignments and training for development, prepare performance appraisals

• Coordinate project activities across multiple development, product management, user experience and QA teams in a matrix organization

• Secure acceptance and approval of deliverables or revisions to the project from the project sponsor and stakeholders

• Manage vendor relationship and deliverables

• Evaluate and recommend purchases of software packages, hardware, and service vendors where appropriate

• Ensure work deliverables are in compliance with bank policies and regulatory requirements

• Plan for and oversee preparation of documentation of each project phase (business requirements, functional specification, project plan, test strategy, test plan, etc), training and support in new/modified applications

• Facilitate team’s project delivery, project planning and project execution while adhering to Agile values and practices

• Facilitate daily scrum, sprint planning (including effort estimation and resource planning), sprint demo, retrospective meetings, and backlog grooming

• Supports the organizational transformation, share best practices and tools that are successful.

REQUIREMENTS:

Domain Knowledge:

• Knowledge in Portfolio Management and Advisory functions in the wealth/premier banking domain is essential

• Understanding of technical aspects of system integration in a mix technology environment

• Comprehensive knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc.

• Working knowledge in Agile toolsets such as JIRA, Confluence and complementing practices such as DevOps, TDD

Qualifications/Experience:

• Tertiary education required

• More than 10 years in project management in IT in investment bank delivering projects exceeding S$5 mil

• 3-5 years of Scrum Master, or agile-practicing Project Manager experience in Information Technology in a project-based environment, preferably in financial institution / banking industry

• Certification or formal training in project management is an advantage

• Experience on Aladdin (BlackRock) is preferable.

• Experience in agile project delivery is an advantage

• Self-starter with excellent leadership and team building skills

• Ability to resolve complex problems creatively

• Experience in managing senior stakeholders

• Strong organizational, communication and conflict resolution skills

• Agile / Scrum Master certification is a plus

Please contact Devin at DevinE@charterhouse.com.sg for a confidential discussion

EA License no: 16S8066 | Reg no.: R1980261

Only successful candidates will be notified.