Sr Specialist – IT Program Management

Your Opportunity

Schwab remains committed to providing increased visibility to career growth opportunities and job requirements. This posting announcement is part of increased transparency and while all qualified applicants will be reviewed and considered, this organization has a preferred candidate identified for this role.

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location.

We believe that, when done right, investing liberates people to create their own destiny.We are drivenby our purpose to champion every client’sgoalswith passion and integrity.We respectand appreciate the diversity of our employees, our clients, and the communities we serve.We challengeconventions strategically to create value for our clients, ourfirmand the world. We live and bring to life the concept of ‘own your tomorrow’ every day.We championour employee strengths, guide their development, and invest in their long-term success.We hireoptimistic, results-oriented, curious, innovative, and adaptable people with the desire to help our clients and one another succeed.

As a company, we wereestablishedbyChuckover 40 years ago to champion Main Street over Wall Street, and to help Americans transform themselves from earners to owners. Through advocacy and innovation, we work to make investing more affordable,accessibleand understandable for all.  As we enter our fifth decade, we are looking for talented,innovativeand driven people who believe they can help themselves, and our clients, create a better future.

Your Opportunity:

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career.Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together. 

The Schwab Technology Services (STS) Portfolio & Project Management (PPM) organization partners with Business and Technology Leaders to prioritize and execute technology work for strategic business sponsored initiatives, enhancements, as well as standard technology operations, production support, and technology enablement to ensure STS capacity is focused on the most important work for the company.

Whatyou’lldo:

Project Managersare responsible forleading enterprise wide, cross-functional strategic initiatives. They lead a variety ofdifferent typesof projects including launching new products and services, small to medium-scale application development, systems integration, process reengineering, operational efficiency improvements, and infrastructure upgrades and deployments.

Responsibilities: 

• Accountable for planning, orchestrating, and delivering a given strategic initiative including business, operational, and information technology deliverables 

• Ensures end results are of the highest caliber with a clearly articulated scope and quantifiable business benefit 

• Manages small to medium-scale projects sometimes involving multiple internal and external constituents and partners

• Directly manages all aspects of the project life cycle and oversees all phases of a project, escalating issues to portfolio manager as appropriate 

• Rigorously manages scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed-upon time, cost, and quality parameters 

• Validates financial forecasts,costassumptions, and provides ongoing reconciliation of resources and other related project expenditures 

• Works with resource managers to ensure that resource capacity planning is accurately forecast, and provides ongoing reconciliation of actual time spent against forecasts 

• Defines and tracks project milestones while developing,maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan

• Handles risks and issues management for the project-level risks and interdependencies

• Partners with Product Owners and Scrum Masters to track Agile development milestones and support Agile practices as needed

• Manages team relationships to ensure effective delivery

• Facilitates problem-solving and resolves stakeholder conflict

What you are good at:

•   Proven ability to build a strong partnership and trust with stakeholders within the organizationAbility to navigate a matrixed organization effectively & succeed within a highly collaborative culture
•  Ability to communicate with clarity and precision both written and verbally
•  Strong business savvy and technical acumen
•  Focused and versatile team player that is comfortable under pressure
• Understanding of cross-functional dependencies and how theyimpactproject execution
• Proficient with financial data and the technology, tools and processes that support work and projects/programs 
• Understanding of the processes, procedures and systems used toaccomplishthe work and how to best manage that work; recognition of downstream impact on other

What you have

To ensure that we have fulfilled our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

Required Qualifications

• 3-7 years of project management experience, managing small to medium projects, with emphasis on product development, systems, and technology environments 

• 3-7 years of experience with project management tools and artifacts, including MS Project, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, project budgets, change requests, status reports, etc.

• Direct experience mobilizing and leading teams; setting direction and approach;facilitatingconflict resolution; identifying/understanding drivers, root cause; seeking guidance or escalating when needed

• Demonstrated, applied experienceestablishingand delivering projects

• Demonstrated problem-solving and critical-thinking skills

• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Background/experience in financial services industry

• Experience with and understanding of various software development methodologies, including Agile/Scrum 

• PMP or PMI-ACP certification