Lead Technical Project Delivery

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**Organization Description**

Our Corporate & Investment Bank relies on innovators like you to lead software development efforts. We have a multi-year program to dramatically expand our business in Latin America and deliver real-time, 24/7 payments technology solutions that enable us to be number one in all of the markets that we serve. To this end, we are seeking technologists to drive this expansion and deploy our global platforms across Latin America.

We are making significant investments to achieve the goals of enabling the bank to deploy technology, provide strategic advice, raise capital, manage risk, and extend liquidity across Latin America just as we do in markets spanning over 100 countries around the world.

**Employer Description**

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business serves clients in a first class way and drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength. We place high value on the thought leadership and diverse talents they bring to our global workforce for these capabilities are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and who promotes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our culture. 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.

**Success Criteria**
- Delivery of new products and major enhancements on time and within budget
- Deployment of global platforms adapted to the local markets in Latin America
- Building technology teams that progressively grow in the practice of agile development
- Greater automation of business processes and operational efficiency
- Empowerment of the sales, client onboarding, client services and operations organizations
- Creating scalable, resilient, highly available, performant systems that run 24/7
- Enabling the ability to upgrade software components without existing business disruption
- Developing software that is compliant with technology lifecycle management demands
- Producing software that withstands scrutiny of security reviews and risk assessments
- Platform execution that consistently meets client and market service level agreements
- Seamless interlock, engagement and collaboration with global development teams
- Automation of Dev/Ops, testing, continuous integration and deployment

**General Tasks & Responsibilities**
- Collaborating with Product Managers to interpret and define business requirements
- Building, editing and maintaining the team backlog
- Defining epics, stories, functional test requirements and acceptance criteria
- Reviewing and prioritizing the backlog to facilitate iteration planning
- Collaborating with the development team to elaborate stories and acceptance criteria
- Participate in agile ceremonies, feature demonstrations and retrospectives
- Identifying requirements from products / business teams helping them to address client’s needs
- Ensure the solutions are delivered in accordance with risk, regulatory and compliance guidelines
- Manage the execution of technical projects, coordinating resources (staff, equipment, vendors and consultants) across one or more projects
- Develop plans and manage interdependencies between development teams and business units;
- Ensure the solutions are delivered in accordance with Risk, Architecture and other relevant firm-wide guidelines
- Keep the documentation updated
- Understand business processes and map them to technical solutions
- Interlock with infrastructure teams and other technology areas to implement the solution

**Required Skills**:

- Effective tech project management
- Hands on experience designing technical architecture to address problem statements
- Experience defining functional and non-functional specifications
- Knowledge of payments technology platform features and market requirements
- Effective at running meetings and interlocks between project stakeholders
- Ability to translate epics, themes and stories into system features that address client needs
- Experience working on high throughput mission critical high performance platforms which have low error rates
- Fluent English

**Required Experience**
- 5-10+ years’ experience as a technology project leader working within Banking industry
- Experience and practical knowledge of project management tools and techniques.
- Expe