Project Manager Job in Durham 27707, North Carolina Us
Fidelity Investments is one of the world’s largest providers of financial services. Founded in 1946, the firm is a leading provider of investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, benefits outsourcing and many other financial products and services to more than 20 million individuals and institutions, as well as through 5,000 financial intermediary firms.
Project Manager
Fidelity Institutional Web Technology Group supports Fidelity's Institutional business, including National Financial (NF) and Fidelity Institutional Wealth Services (IWS). We produces large, commercial web applications using Java, JSP, HTML, FLEX and AJAX technologies, including Struts and Spring, to support institutional clients like Correspondent Broker-Dealers and Registered Investment Advisors. Our products also serve internal operational associates. We work closely with our business partners to develop requirements and build systems solutions to meet their needs.
The ABWT Account/Client Info team builds functionality for and supports the FI Business (NF and IWS) client facing products Streetscape, MyStreetscape, Wealth Central, and others. Specific functionality includes Account and Client related functions such as positions, balances, and transaction history.
The team is located completely in Raleigh North Carolina and works with business and technology partners in Boston, New York, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, North Carolina, and India. We are a cross functional team composed of project managers, developers, and analysts. We work closely with partners in QA, and with additional project managers from the Financial Technology team. We use both FSDM (Waterfall) and FAM (Agile) development methods. Our production support team works toward an ITIL model.
AWBT associates are Relationship Focused, Open and Honest, demonstrate a Can-Do Attitude, and are Knowledgeable about their assignments and industry trends.
We seek a creative, committed and collaborative individual to join our fast-paced organization. The successful candidate will manage large ($500k - $1 M, 5 - 10+ participants) application web user interface development projects as part of exciting, highly visible and critical strategic efforts for Fidelity Institutional. The ability to learn quickly, to respond to and incorporate feedback, and to maintain high energy are required for this role.
Primary Responsibilities
- Manage large ($1M+, 10+ participant) application software development projects
- Ensure projects are on time, on budget, deliver high quality, and are run with an effective and collegial team atmosphere
- Understand, articulate and track business requirements
- Bring diverse business representatives to consensus on project requirements, providing and tracking explicit sign-off
- Manage program and product roadmaps
- Manage and participate in effective project estimations
- Collaborate on business and system requirements definitions
- Collaborate on annual and ongoing staff planning and budgeting
- Perform effective project accounting
- Provide innovations to increase effectiveness of overall team project delivery
- Manage the creation of technical documentation on project deliveries
- Effectively manage Unit, QA and UAT testing
Education and Experience:
- Bachelors Degree
- 3 years business experience
- Capabilities/characteristics must include ability to articulate/communicate effectively, adaptability, capacity to anticipate issues and offer mitigations, ability to negotiate/bring partners to consensus/obtain closure, collaborative and influence strength, responsiveness to input, commitment, and drive
- 2+ years experience managing $500K to $1M+, 10+ participant projects
- Experience with Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring and Control, and Closure of projects
- Excellent Microsoft Excel, Project, and PowerPoint Skills
- Experience with remote collaboration and collaborative tools
- Experience with dashboards
- Experience managing full software project lifecycle
Skills and Knowledge (Desired):
- Equity Trading and/or Financial Domain experience
- PMP Certification
- Technical background a plus, particularly HTML, Flex, Java, JDBC, Spring, Web Services, web architecture, data modeling
- Experience with HP PPMC a plus
- Experience with ClearCase or other source control system a plus
Company Overview
Fidelity Investments is one of the world's largest providers of financial services. Founded in 1946, the firm is a leading provider of investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, benefits outsourcing and many other financial products and services to more than 20 million individuals and institutions, as well as through 5,000 financial intermediary firms. For more information about Fidelity Investments, visit www.fidelity.com.
