The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) seeks a Program Manager who will be responsible for all aspects of the development life cycle of the systems used for municipal bond transparency and transaction reporting, primary and secondary market document submissions, and in support of Information Technology department activities.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

· Proactively manage a portfolio of critical, programs through the entire Systems Development Life Cycle by employing Project Management and Agile best practices, and oversight for project activities including schedule, scope, quality, communications, issue, and risk management.

· Maintain and validate project artifacts throughout all phases of the life cycle and upon program closeout, including completion and review of the artifact checklist.

· Schedule Management: Develop a project schedule for all tasks, based on team estimations. Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery of projects by proactively driving cross-functional teams (including daily standups), managing to the schedule, monitoring progress, removing obstacles and escalating to the PMO Director immediately when program schedules are at risk. Identify, communicate, and track dependencies.

· Scope Management: Monitor the scope of the program. Escalate immediately to the PMO Director if a change to the scope is requested to understand impact to the schedule and any subsequent project impact, and to gain consensus across Stakeholders, Technology Leaders, and Senior Leadership regarding scope change

· Issue Management: Track and manage issues. Employ an objective approach to issue resolution, working with cross-functional team members to understand all he critical data points in order to perform quantitative and qualitative analysis, and work with the team to develop action plans.

· Risk Management: Track and manage risks. Work with the cross-functional team to identify risks, analyze risks, and identify and plans to mitigate risks.

· Quality Management: Ensure that the system tester follows the Technology Testing Process including a review of all project-related documentation, completion of a testing questionnaire, identification of all testing required, development of a comprehensive test plan, a peer review (for non-senior testers), execution of all testing, and completion of a Summary Test Report

· Communications Management: Consistently adhere to the standard communication process for the Program Management Office including bi-weekly Status Reports, Stakeholder Reviews, and timely adhoc communications as needed to keep Technology Leaders, Senior Leadership, and Stakeholders informed in order to make adjustments as needed

· Release Management: Plan and oversee the cloud deployment model/process, working closely with IT Operations and Systems Development teams.

· Coordinate development and test resources to investigate and resolve post-production bugs that have been prioritized by business, managing through the Technology Delivery Process

· Performs other duties as assigned

EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Information Systems, or related field or three years of technical experience in data driven analysis, configuration and change management practices, and project management. Experience in computer system development lifecycle practices including Agile methods and process improvement analysis, implementation, and adoption. Experience with CI/CD pipeline and AWS Cloud Certification desired.