Program Director, Global Technology

6 days ago

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Royal Bank of Canada> Full time

Job Summary

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

In this role, you will be responsible for managing strategic projects in the Global Technology team, focused on Risk, Compliance, and Data portfolio. You will lead concurrent projects utilizing shared resources, with aggressive timelines. The project methodology being followed is both Agile and Iterative Waterfall.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead, direct, and oversee activities on planning, delivery, and implementation to ensure enterprise-wide program strategic goals and objectives are accomplished within approved time frames, scope, and budget.
  • Work directly with Risk and Compliance Change Management and across business partners. Manage programs with high amounts of value (benefit/cost), complexity, and uncertainty or manage sub-programs within a very large program.
  • Translate the project vision into program high-level scope, design, and executables. Ensure alignment with enterprise-wide Business and IT Architecture.
  • Develop, monitor, and execute project plans and coordinate timely execution of major milestones, approvals, sign-offs, and implementation. Coordinate release of deliverables mitigating any risks and issues.
  • Regularly report progress of project status, milestones, achievements, RAID, and budgetary standing in both formal (e.g., Executive Steering Committee) and informal settings.
  • Work with vendors and suppliers to procure equipment and technology. Actively manage all vendor deliverables for the project.
  • Communicate effectively with all internal and external stakeholders and users. Coach and mentor individual project managers who have a direct reporting line and/or contributing into the program.
  • In conjunction with business partners, develop and present project business cases to the appropriate approval committees.
  • Provide regular risk assessments and work with Operational Risk team on mitigation strategies and monitoring.

Requirements

  • Experience in managing delivery of application development programs of approx. $5MM to 20MM annual spend of high complexity, managing project scope, time, cost, and quality in a matrix environment.
  • High-level general management skills, including leading, negotiating, communicating, and team building. Must have experience in running Agile and Iterative projects.
  • A minimum of 10 years of success as an IT project manager, with proven people management skills.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, IT, or a related field.
  • Advanced Microsoft Project and PowerPoint.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with Risk, Compliance, and Data strategy projects.
  • Experience working in Financial Institutions.
  • Experience using PlanView and JIRA.
  • Advanced Visio knowledge.

What's in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

  • A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable.
  • Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities.
  • Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.
  • Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
  • A world-class training program in financial services.
  • Flexible work/life balance options.
  • Opportunities to do challenging work.
  • Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities.
  • Opportunities to build close relationships with clients.
  • Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies.

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