Lead Project Manager

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC? Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact.

We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well‑being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

The Lead Project Manager is a key member of a development squad with a well‑defined software development life cycle process. The Lead Scrum Master applies a broad technical knowledge of Agile methodology to manage the scrum process with geographically dispersed teams to deliver exceptional standards in product quality and timely, predictable delivery of projects. The Lead Scrum Master oversees cross‑functional coordination and communication, requirements traceability, release management, test case management, and defect tracking concerns to keep delivery on track.

• Understands Agile and relevant frameworks (e.g., scrum) to maximize the success of the squad.
• Possess a comprehensive understanding of Agile tools, techniques, principles and values and apply this knowledge to the squad.
• Be the servant‑leader for the squad to ensure the team lives the agile values and principles and follows the processes and practices the team has agreed to apply.
• Coach PO and squad to maintain a healthy and prioritized backlog with refined user stories.
• Collaborates on user story, epic, theme definition and documentation with product owner and squad members and manage the product backlog in partnership with the product owner in Jira.
• Successfully balance delivery time frames and continuous iteration so that customer feedback is always incorporated.
• Participate in Scrum of Scrums sessions to ensure the squad and the others in the tribe are aligned on priorities, dependencies and timelines.
• Provide role (PO, QA, Dev, etc.) based coaching and proactively facilitate coaching session with the squad.
• Coach the squad to consider how squad/product vision affects other squads we regularly interact with.
• Create a safe environment for all ceremonies to encourage active participation from all squad members.
• Facilitate and mediate conflicts within the squad.
• Ensure Jira always reflects current state of work and coach the squad on the Agile framework and attitude and guide it to higher Agile maturity.
• Facilitates daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings as part of an Agile squad.
• Ensure accurate and transparent communications to stakeholders with concise metrics and updates on progress, risks, and impediments.
• Project Management, Project Planning, Release Planning
• Be an Agile Coach to squad team members through effective approach to support them on squad and tribe goals.
• Ability to ensure the accurate use of scrum processes.
• Manage implementation projects throughout the entire roadmap lifecycle using Agile development methodologies.
• Ability to shield the squad from outside distractions & remove squad impediments or roadblocks.
• Drives maturity of security attitude by proactively identifying meaningful issues and control gaps in current processes; influencing behavior change within the organization and contributing to building a stronger security‑focused culture.
• Act as the point of escalation for risks, issues, and dependencies, ensure action items are clearly defined, assigned to owners, and driven to resolution in a timely manner.
• Engage with leadership, partners, and…