Lead IT Project Manager

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.

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 into 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.

Why this role is important to us

At SimCorp, we support some of the biggest financial institutions in the world to be successful by simplifying their investments, accounting, and operations. Currently SimCorp is transforming the way we deliver services to our clients.

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Lead IT Project Manager to successfully steer projects from scoping to execution on global IT projects together with colleagues from Group IT, business units, and local offices across the world.

You will be an integrated part of Group IT longer term planning, architecture and design based on agreed strategies and application roadmap. It is therefore expected that you have a solid understanding of Information technology with focus on implementing applications. You may have a technical background or degree in Information Technology, and you have solid experience as an IT Project Manager within an international IT environment.

You will join a small but strong community of 4 other IT Project Managers in the Group IT. Our projects vary from upgrades of existing applications, new infrastructure, implementation of new systems, InfoSec remediation, change management or a combination of it all.

What you will be responsible for

• Leading and executing global and cross-functional IT projects of various sizes, complexity, and duration

• Build detailed plans with milestone, deliverables and dependencies, track progress and report obstacles

• Proactively managing scope, timeline, quality, budget, risks, issues and actions

• Cooperate with 3rd parties/external vendors to establish, maintain, and deliver according to a shared plan

• Organize, prioritize, and delegate work. Motivate team members to meet project goals

• Communication to different audiences across hierarchy levels e.g., executives, Steering Committees, teams, vendors, users etc.

• Act as a strong sparring partner for stakeholders, team, and senior management

What we value (our requirements)

• Proven experience working as an IT Project Manager within an international IT company, preferably in both waterfall and agile IT environments

• A degree in Computer Science, Business Information Technology or similar

• High execution power and drive to deliver on agreed strategies and roadmaps

• Strategic mindset and strong analytical skills with focus on business outcome and complete solutions

• Adept at prioritizing tasks to ensure effective deadlines

• Strong collaboration skills across multiple levels and functions with both technical and business minded colleagues

• Able to encourage and motivate teams and peers, and facilitate improvements across Group IT

• You are structured and able to keep focus on several things, while keeping a cool head

• Social and contributing to a good team spirit, working in a fast-paced environment

• Advanced communication skills in English

Next steps

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. To make sure you receive our emails please check your junk/spam folder and add SimCorp to the safe list of your e-mail contacts.

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If you would like to know more about the job, please contact Alina Wiejak, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner at [email protected]

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