IT Project Manager, Risk & Regulatory Technology

Join the risk technology organization of a major global financial institution supporting complex regulatory and risk-management initiatives across commercial and investment banking. This environment brings together business stakeholders, technology teams, risk specialists, developers, QA professionals, and senior leadership across multiple geographies. The team is focused on delivering dependable technology solutions that strengthen regulatory compliance, risk governance, data quality, reporting, and operational effectiveness.

What’s In Store For You

• Engagement: W2 only, no C2C/1099
• Work model: Hybrid
• Opportunity to lead high-visibility risk and regulatory technology initiatives within a large financial-services environment
• Exposure to senior business, technology, risk, and regulatory stakeholders
• Work across complex programs involving risk reporting, data, trading platforms, financial instruments, and regulatory requirements

How You Will Make An Impact

• Lead delivery of complex risk and regulatory technology initiatives from requirements definition through implementation and post-production support.
• Partner with business users to gather, analyze, and document requirements and translate business objectives into clear functional and technology requirements.
• Coordinate delivery across developers, QA teams, subject-matter experts, business stakeholders, and senior management across multiple locations.
• Perform root-cause, gap, current-state, and future-state analysis to identify issues and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Manage project scope, timelines, dependencies, risks, issues, action plans, and stakeholder communications across concurrent initiatives.
• Oversee user acceptance testing, implementation readiness, training, change-management activities, and rollout support.
• Evaluate existing business and technology processes and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, controls, data quality, and reporting.
• Present project status, risks, decisions, and remediation plans clearly to senior management.
• Bridge highly technical, financial, and regulatory topics for both technical and non-technical audiences.

• 10+ years of professional experience within large financial institutions, preferably commercial or investment banking environments.
• Demonstrated experience delivering risk and regulatory technology initiatives, including programs involving requirements, implementation, reporting, and supporting documentation.
• Strong knowledge of regulatory frameworks or initiatives such as CCAR, FRTB, or comparable banking regulations.
• Strong understanding of Credit Risk, financial instruments, market data, trading systems, risk reporting, and risk-governance processes.
• Proven ability to operate as both a senior project leader and a hands-on business-facing technology partner.
• Experience managing projects through Waterfall and Agile delivery models.
• Strong working knowledge of tools such as Jira, Confluence, MS Project, ServiceNow, Visio, and Excel.
• Proficiency with SQL for data investigation and analysis.
• Exposure to Databricks is preferred.
• Understanding of financial operations, management information systems, data-management processes, and regulatory reporting.
• Strong analytical, root-cause-analysis, problem-solving, prioritization, and follow-through capabilities.
• Ability to manage several complex initiatives simultaneously with limited supervision.
• Strong executive communication, relationship management, leadership, emotional intelligence, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.