Program Manager - Engineering Vendor Program Office

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The Corporate Planning & Management (CPM) Division unifies Finance & Planning, Spend Management, Operational Risk and Resilience, and CPM Engineering teams to deliver business planning and analytics, expense management, third party risk management, and governance strategies across the firm. 

Team Overview and Job responsibilities will include, but are not limited to: 

The Engineering Vendor Program Office (EVPO) performs a governance function managing operational efficiency and aligns engineering to the firm’s OneGS strategy. It is a mechanism to eliminate duplication across organization, avoid cost, facilitate selection of best solution and optimize the process of building consensus. EVPOs core capability is to review and approve product selection, drive process improvement initiatives for vendor engagement, monitor demand for engineering capabilities and build traceability into decisions.  The key stakeholders who benefit from EVPOs service offerings are (i) engineers and product owners who implement functionalities offered by external Technology companies, (ii) sales relationship owners (primarily concentrated in IBD, AMD and PWM), (iii) senior leaders (Engineering and EO) who meet with Technology companies, (iv) functions related to vendor lifecycle, specifically technology risk, third party risk, strategic sourcing, (v) compliance and (vi) technology companies and venture capital portfolio companies who wish to engage with the firm. 

As an EVPO team member you will help facilitate and accelerate product selection across the firm. This will allow Engineering and Markets Teams to evaluate solutions under structured guidelines providing greater transparency into decision making by Engineering leadership team.

Required Qualification   

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related technical discipline
• Must have 3-5 years of experience with:
  • Sales, banking or engineering experience. Strong analytical and problem solving skills, pays attention to detail and demonstrates appropriate financial/analytical skills. 
  • Project/program, relationship, or account management experience
  • Facilitating conflict resolution and building consensus within a geographically distributed teams.
  • Communicating effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders within the context of a software development project and program.
  • Planning and helping manage risks, issues, and program deliveries.
• Prior experience in technical program management, or similar technical project role is a plus
• Experience and understanding of broad set of third party software and hardware technology
• Experience in technology product especially AI solutions, is a plus

Other qualifications

• Experience with hands-on technical product management, large scale technical project management, and/ or software development
• Strong analytical, problem-solving skills with a demonstrated understanding of program management processes, artifacts and tools
• Excellent communication skills including experience speaking to technical and business audiences and working globally
• Functional knowledge of business management capabilities (OKRs, program management, vendor management, financial planning and analysis)
• Experience in major product/vendor management applications (i.e., Jira, Confluence)
• Strong knowledge and experience working third-party vendor technology. 
• Experience exploring and leveraging technology research tools and companies (e.g. Gartner, Forrester) 
• Proven experience in process improvement projects and tools. 
• Innovative and flexible in coming up with suggestions and ideas
• Strong sense of detail and urgency, with the ability to motivate others to deliver
• Self-motivated individual that possesses excellent time management and organizational skills
• Understanding of software development lifecycle best practices
• Ability (and tenacity) to clearly express ideas and arguments in Executive and Vendor meetings and on paper (i.e., great written and verbal communications skills)
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority
• Must work well in a global team, multi-tasking environment and under pressure
• Adaptability and being comfortable with uncertainty
• Experience with technology vendor sourcing/researching process will be a plus.