IT Project Manager – Agile at STAFFWORXS in Whippany, NJ

Job description

• We are looking for an experienced Generalist IT Project Manager to manage end-to-end technology projects in an Agile environment. The candidate will coordinate with business, technology, operations, vendors, and other stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and according to quality standards. Banking or financial-services domain experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Job Summary:
• Manage IT projects from initiation through planning, execution, monitoring, and closure.
• Define project scope, objectives, timelines, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Lead Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Coordinate with business analysts, developers, testers, product owners, infrastructure teams, and third-party vendors.
• Track project progress, budgets, resources, risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Prepare and present project status reports to senior management and stakeholders.
• Facilitate requirement discussions and ensure alignment between business and technology teams.
• Manage project governance, documentation, change requests, and escalation processes.
• Identify delivery risks and develop appropriate mitigation and contingency plans.
• Support UAT, production implementation, and post-production activities.
• Ensure compliance with organizational standards, security policies, and regulatory requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement and promote Agile best practices across project teams.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in IT, including at least 4+ years in project management.
• Strong experience managing application development, infrastructure, integration, migration, or technology-transformation projects.
• Good understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies and the software development lifecycle.
• Experience using project-management and Agile tools such as Jira, Confluence, MS Project, or similar tools.
• Strong stakeholder, vendor, risk, issue, and dependency-management skills.
• Excellent communication, leadership, presentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work with geographically distributed teams.
• Experience preparing project plans, dashboards, executive reports, and governance materials.
• Experience in banking, financial services, or regulated environments.
• Knowledge of banking products, payments, risk, compliance, regulatory reporting, or data-management projects.
• PMP, CSM, SAFe, PMI-ACP, or equivalent certification is preferred.
• Experience working with global delivery teams and external vendors.

Skills

Required

• Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Software development lifecycle
• Jira
• Confluence
• MS Project
• Stakeholder management
• Vendor management
• Risk management
• Issue management
• Dependency management
• Communication
• Leadership

Preferred

• Banking domain knowledge
• Financial services domain knowledge
• Regulated environments experience
• Banking products knowledge
• Payments knowledge
• Risk knowledge
• Compliance knowledge
• Regulatory reporting knowledge