The ideal candidate is a dynamic individual, an experienced system analyst with project management skills, strong communication skills, payments business acumen, understanding of regulatory requirements governing payments and experience defining system requirements for building resilient, scalable, high quality software.  The person in this role is experienced in all phases of the SDLC, has experience working in agile development projects and is able to scale into a product owner as part of a development team tasked with creation of significant new features and major enhancements to the payment platform.

Organization Description

Our Corporate & Investment Bank relies on innovators like you to lead software development efforts.  We have a multi-year program to dramatically expand our business in Latin America and deliver real-time, 24/7 payments technology solutions that enable us to be number one in all of the markets that we serve. To this end, we are seeking technologists to drive this expansion and deploy our global platforms across Latin America.

We are making significant investments to achieve the goals of enabling the bank to deploy technology, provide strategic advice, raise capital, manage risk, and extend liquidity across Latin America just as we do in markets spanning over 100 countries around the world.

Employer Description

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business serves clients in a first class way and drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength.  We place high value on the thought leadership and diverse talents they bring to our global workforce for these capabilities are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and who promotes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our culture. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.

Success Criteria

The successful candidate is an experienced solutions analyst and project manager who leads cross functional development teams and is able to produce the following results:

Delivery of new products and major enhancements on time and within budget Deployment of global platforms adapted to the local markets in Latin America Building technology teams that progressively grow in the practice of agile development Greater automation of business processes and operational efficiency Empowerment of the sales, client onboarding, client services and operations organizations Creating scalable, resilient, highly available, performant systems that run 24/7 Enabling the ability to upgrade software components without existing business disruption Developing software that is compliant with technology lifecycle management demands Producing software that withstands scrutiny of security reviews and risk assessments Platform execution that consistently meets client and market service level agreements Seamless interlock, engagement and collaboration with global development teams Automation of Dev/Ops, testing, continuous integration and deployment 

General Tasks & Responsibilities

Collaborating with Product Managers to interpret and define business requirements Building, editing and maintaining the team backlog Defining epics, stories, functional test requirements and acceptance criteria  Reviewing and prioritizing the backlog to facilitate iteration planning Collaborating with the development team to elaborate stories and acceptance criteria Participate in agile ceremonies, feature demonstrations and retrospectives Identifying requirements from products / business teams helping them to address client’s needs Ensure the solutions are delivered in accordance with risk, regulatory and compliance guidelines Manage the execution of technical projects, coordinating resources (staff, equipment, vendors and consultants) across one or more projects Develop plans and manage interdependencies between development teams and business units; Ensure the solutions are delivered in accordance with Risk, Architecture and other relevant firm-wide guidelines Keep the documentation updated Understand business processes and map them to technical solutions Interlock with infrastructure teams and other technology areas to implement the solution

Required Skills

Effective tech project management Hands on experience designing technical architecture to address problem statements Experience defining functional and non-functional specifications Knowledge of payments technology platform features and market requirements Effective at running meetings and interlocks between project stakeholders Ability to translate epics, themes and stories into system features that address client needs Experience working on high throughput mission critical high performance platforms which have low error rates Fluent English

 Required Experience

5-10+ years’ experience as a technology project leader working within Banking industry Experience and practical knowledge of project management tools and techniques. Experience enhancing and developing mission-critical applications Experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery Experience designing technical solutions for cloud based applications Driving continual improvement in leading team and personal performance

Personal Qualities

Demonstrate Continual Improvement in terms of Individual Performance, and approach Demonstrates intellectual curiosity, challenges assumptions and “the way we’ve always done it.”
Negotiation & Organization skills Strong communication and team-working skills Leadership & ownership Hands-on, bright and enthusiastic, self-starter Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills Ability to thrive in a high pressure, mission critical environment A proactive and positive approach to problem solving, taking ownership of issues, and having the determination to follow things through. Ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing to the team, business partners, vendors and clients Ability to multi-task effectively and produce high quality work with limited supervision

Education

BA/BS required in Computer Science or equivalent