FRFS Senior IT Project Manager

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine® Solutions, Fedwire® Funds and Securities, the National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash®1, FedACH®, Check Services, and the FedNow® Service.

FRFS operates as a fully integrated organization with groups dedicated to operations, technology, product and industry engagement, enterprise services, and one focused on the ongoing growth and development of the FedNow instant payment service.

Our strategy defines our future direction, seeking to offer a fully integrated product suite that provides speed, resilience, and choice in meeting the payments needs of financial institutions across the United States.

Through our Enterprise structure, we strive to meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services with speed and agility, seek to provide a robust and unified customer experience, and work to create career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.

We seek leaders to set the vision, strategy, values, and priorities that enable FRFS to achieve its mission.

Our leaders must demonstrate a strategic, action-oriented mindset focused on intellectual curiosity, agility, accountability, and the ability to drive innovation through experimentation.

To achieve our vision for a people-focused organization with a strong collaborative and innovative culture, we expect our leaders to champion an inclusive environment and demonstrate our values in how we work and interact with each other and our broader community.

With limited oversight, plans and leads projects that are typically high profile and have highly visible objectives where the project’s success or failure will create significant risks for the Federal Reserve System (FRS).

Directly or indirectly leads the activities of large cross-functional matrixed project teams.

Demonstrates mastery of project management principles and is relied upon to provide thought leadership on project management approaches.

Applies expertise to significantly influence direction and objectives.

Utilizes knowledge of latest trends related to information technology and project management to identify and apply qualitative and quantitative best practices and tools for project execution and management.

Key Activities:


* Helps define project governance and oversight to control the achievement of the project’s vision and to establish accountability and ownership for tracking and delivering intended benefits.

Aligns individual project plans and strategies to the larger program vision to achieve macro-level benefits and results.

Identifies cross-project dependencies and develops project risk mitigation strategies.


* Ensures adherence to Enterprise Project Management standards and applies Performance and Benefits Management processes to the project lifecycle.


* Demonstrates strong initiative and leadership skills with ability to lead the activit...