The IT Project Senior Technical Lead is a senior strategic professional and recognized subject matter expert responsible for leading complex, cross-functional technology initiatives that drive business outcomes. Applies deep industry and technical expertise to influence technology strategy, delivery priorities, and organizational objectives.
Exercises considerable latitude in decision-making and regularly partners with senior business and technology leaders to drive alignment, resolve complex challenges, and deliver strategic solutions. Serves as a trusted advisor, providing authoritative guidance on program execution, risk management, governance, and operational effectiveness.
Accountable for the successful delivery of large-scale initiatives with significant business impact. Leads through influence across multiple teams and stakeholders, directing resource planning, prioritization, and execution while fostering collaboration and driving results. Contributes to technology strategy and transformation efforts that support enterprise goals, operational efficiency, and business growth.
Responsibilities:
- Provides IT strategic direction for projects managed including developing detailed IT work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans and status reports.
- Influences investment decisions, budget planning, resource prioritization, and policy development to support strategic technology and business outcomes.
- Drives business transformation through evaluation and optimization of complex business and technology processes, leveraging industry trends and best practices.
- Serves as a senior subject matter expert, providing thought leadership and guidance on large-scale program delivery, operational excellence, and organizational change initiatives.
- Possesses an understanding of client core business functions.
- Partners with senior technology and business leaders to shape strategic direction, influence priorities, and drive execution of critical initiatives.
- Influences and negotiates with senior leaders (across functions); may communicate with external parties.
- Utilizes comprehensive knowledge of multiple areas within technology to achieve technology objectives.
- Responsible for resource management and allocation of work; acts as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts.
- Provides in-depth and sophisticated analysis with interpretive thinking to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
- 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.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience leading large-scale technology programs with demonstrated success delivering complex, cross-functional strategic initiatives.
- Proven ability to solve complex challenges, and have a high ability to remove barriers, understanding internal and external
- Excellent MS Office skills including strong PowerPoint presentation skills.
- Extensive Project Management tools experience.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Backlog Refinement sessions.
- Monitor sprint progress and ensure delivery commitments are achieved.
- Demonstrated ability to lead highly complex initiatives while balancing strategic priorities, organizational change, and stakeholder expectations.
- Strong written/verbal communication skills.
- Ability to establish rapport and build effective relationships across functions, across regions, and across all levels of management.
Knowledge/Experience:
- Senior program management experience supporting the delivery of high value projects.
- Thorough understanding of project/program management techniques and expectations
- Extensive experience managing broad scale programs across various disciplines.
- Ability to organize and prioritize critical issues and information to facilitate efficient decision making, providing oversight and guidance to team projects of highest priority and importance.
- Ability to develop project plans, manage individual deadlines and goals.
- Knowledge of project metrics, including gathering, reporting, trend analysis, creation, and metrics.
- Ability to identify issues and problems, generate solutions and choose appropriate alternatives using basic root cause analysis.
Education:
- Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Masters degree
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
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Job Family Group: Technology------------------------------------------------------
Job Family:Technology Project Management------------------------------------------------------
Time Type:Full time------------------------------------------------------
Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:$141,600.00 - $212,400.00------------------------------------------------------
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