Project Manager 1 - Technology

Position Type :

Full time

Type Of Hire :

Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)

Education Desired :

Bachelor of Business Administration

Travel Percentage :

10 - 15%

Job Description

About FIS

As the world works and lives faster, FIS is leading the way. Our fintech solutions touch nearly every market, company and person on the planet. Our teams are inclusive and diverse. Our colleagues work together and celebrate together. If you want to advance the world of fintech, we’d like to ask you: Are you FIS?

Current and future sponsorship are not available for this position

About the role

In a Project Management – Technology role, you’ll use best-in-breed PM tools to help us deliver products that will change the world of fintech. This will include overseeing the implementation of core products and services for our new and existing Community Core Clients.

This role is hybrid, 3 days in office, 2 days remote

About the team

The candidate will be a member of our Community Core Onboarding PMO. The Community Core Onboarding PMO developed its project management methodology over many years and hundreds of successfully executed projects.

Our Methodology is mature, repeatable and well-documented and is followed by all Client Onboarding PMO project managers to better lead clients and FIS resource teams through complex and transformational projects.

Our Community Core PMO leads our onboarding efforts for new HORIZON, Affinity Edge core clients, as well as projects for acquisitions, mergers and core migrations from one FIS core to another.

What you will be doing

• Project Management for our Community Core PMO, projects could include new core implementation, acquisition projects, or other core technology projects such as core migrations from one FIS core product to another.
• Plans and coordinates all aspects of technical projects from initiation through delivery.
• Working with Implementation team, sales, client relationship teams, technology solutions, service delivery and/or other cross-functional teams. As well as facilitating client facing and internal tracking meetings to keep the project on track.
• Managing project risk, issues, scope creep and assisting with problem resolution. Daily internal status updates as well as weekly or bi-weekly client and internal team status reporting.
• Serving as liaison between technical and non-technical teams.
• Project Managers must be able to manager up to three projects at a time and also could act as a Program Manager and Core PM for one project.
• May work at client sites from time to time requiring travel. 25%-30%
• Weekend and Night work required.
• Other related duties assigned as needed.

What you will need

• Extensive knowledge of project management standards, processes, procedures and guidelines as well as various IT project methodologies and life cycles. Candidate must have a background in Banking (minimum 5 years) or Core Implementations (minimum 3 years).
• Need to be a self-starter that can take guidelines and templates provided by the PMO and follow processes and guidelines.
• Advanced skills with project management software such as MS Project, Planview and Monday.com is a plus. Advanced skills in Word and Excel are a must.
• Advanced communication and organization skills are crucial to success in this complex project management role.
• A bachelor’s in computer science, management information systems or business administration or the equivalent experience – PMP (Project Management Professional) certification is not needed but may be required within 2 years of hire.

What we offer you

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Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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