Principal Technical Program Manager - Chief of Staff

Join us for the unique opportunity as Chief of Staff for the Lending Technology Organization.

As a Chief of Staff within the Commercial and Investment Lending Technology team, you will be instrumental in ensuring the alignment of our operations with Lending Technology’s governance policies and technology best practices. Your role will involve promoting best practices and knowledge sharing across chief business technologists to optimize business outcomes, present a consolidated strategy, and work across the organization to resolve issues and deliver business results. Collaborating with Lending Technology’s CTO and CBT’s, you will define and execute strategic initiatives across the technology landscape. You will be a self-starter with excellent written and oral communication skills, capable of multitasking in a fast-paced environment. You will leverage your strong technology background and exposure to both legacy and modern technologies are essential, along with extensive experience in operating within a large-scale technology organization.

Job responsibilities

• Lead enterprise program delivery across the Lending technology organization, aligning priorities, owners, dependencies, milestones, and risk management to keep strategic initiatives on track and outcomes measurable
• Drive executive operating cadence and decision-making by translating strategy into actionable plans, surfacing delivery and capacity trade-off, and providing clear timely updates to senior leadership
• Work directly under the Lending Technology CTO to ensure critical and appropriate topics are presented to the leadership team for awareness, discussion and/or decision making.
• Prepare c-suite ready presentations for firmwide councils such as the Global Technology Leadership (GTL), Global Technology Operating Council (GTOC), Risk Management, and other management forums.
• Lead discussions on topics relevant to the team and participate in cross-group initiatives as needed.
• Prepare various executive management reports to support business operations and decision making.
• Develop and bring valuable insights and analysis to the leadership team, enabling data-driven decision making.
• Lead or support major change initiatives to optimize the strategy, focus, alignment, and accountability.
• Develop and drive adoption of performance measurements and progress against business outcomes and key results.
• Curate the Lending leadership team meeting, track and drive action items and deliverables.
• Partner with communications team on strategy, leadership messages, forums, and speaking events.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 10+ years in Technology or Management Consulting experience in financial services
• BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
• Ability to articulate complex concepts into salient facts creating c-suite quality visualizations and presentations
• Strong understanding of enterprise and emerging technology principles and SDLC practices
• Proficient in Excel, PowerPoint/PitchPRO with excellent presentation and data visualization skills
• Strong analytical, communication, leadership, and quantitative skills
• Ability to drive reporting and projects individually and collaboratively with cross-organizational teams

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills - must have the ability to build strong working relationships key stakeholders
• Ability to multi-task in fast paced environment and comfortable to operate without specific mandate
• Strong judgment and ability to handle confidential/sensitive information
• Expert at roadmap creation and execution, aligning and leading business operations to strategic organizational goals