Lead Project Manager

WHAT MAKES US, US

Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp!

At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values – caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.

If you like what we’re saying, keep reading!

WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US

As an Onboarding Project Manager at SimCorp, you will play a key role in enabling some of the world’s largest financial institutions to smoothly transition to our Azure-hosted SaaS platform. You will lead end‑to‑end infrastructure onboarding projects across the Americas, coordinating closely with Sales, Consulting Services, SaaS Onboard Operations, and SaaS Innovations teams to design, build, deploy, and launch client environments. By managing client engagement, resources, finances, and complex stakeholders, you will ensure smooth go‑lives, reduced risk, and effective customer outcomes—while being supported by a global community of Project Management professionals as you grow your career at SimCorp.

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

• Managing all aspects of the SimCorp Infrastructure Onboarding process: Delivering projects using our standard agile methods across all project phases including Dawn, Design, Swarm, Develop, Deploy, Dissect and Deliver through client Go-live 
• Managing multiple Onboarding projects and related workstreams - identifying all required tasks, dependencies, and time/resource estimations as well as providing regular status updates 
• Managing handovers from Sales to Onboarding and from Onboarding to Run Operations from an infrastructure perspective 
• Facilitating business requirements gathering workshops 
• Contributing to improvement and documentation of best practices for Onboarding projects globally in collaboration with Global PMO 
• Creating and maintaining required project artefacts such as project plan, reports and RAID log, status reports and the change management process 
• Effectively monitoring customer feedback and reporting 
• Consistently identifying and mitigating risk
• Motivating the project team and ensuring continuous improvement within the team 
• Maintaining and updating project standard artifacts, processes and procedures

WHAT WE VALUE

Most importantly, you can see yourself contributing and thriving in the position described above. How you gained the skills needed for doing that is less important. We expect you to be proficient in several of the following skills and be able to - and interested in - learning the rest.

• Experience in delivering multi-stream infrastructure platform projects as well as migration and transformation projects in complex business environments 
• A very good understanding of financial technology and business processes, especially with asset managers, pension funds, insurance companies or large banks 
• Familiar with Software As A Service (SaaS) and in the context of setting up hosted cloud environments. Previous work with MS Azure is a plus. 
• Current PMI/PMP certification or sit for exam within 12-24 months of hire 
• Knowledge and experience in the Investment Management/Asset Management/Financial Services industries
• Familiarity with implementation focused projects in the Financial Technology sector is a plus 
• Great communication skills 
• Willingness to travel to client sites in Americas from time to time. 
• Coming to the SimCorp office (2 days a week)

For Toronto only: The salary range for this position is $110,000 to $150,000

CAD. Base pay may vary based on factors such as years of experience, skills and qualifications. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and benefits including health and dental care, time off and Group RRSP/TFSA.

Benefits

SimCorp offers several benefits that might play a significant factor in considering whether to accept a job offer. Since SimCorp operates in 30+ offices worldwide, the benefits package may vary from country to country.

Simcorp follows a global hybrid policy, asking employees to work from the office two days each week while allowing remote work on other days.

NEXT STEPS

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process.

If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.

We are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated.

WHO WE ARE

For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 3,000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds in general.

SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma, we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry-leading, full, front-to-back offering for our clients.

SimCorp is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated in our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best-in-class solutions to our clients.

SimCorp Canada welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Candidates who require accommodation during the recruitment process should contact the People & Culture team at [email protected].

This position is for an existing vacancy.

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