Lead IT 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.

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WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US

At SimCorp, we support some of the biggest financial institutions in the world by simplifying their investments, accounting, and operations for smoother financial processes. 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 manage 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 be part of a small but skilled community of practice with 4 other IT Project Managers in 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 milestones, deliverables, and dependencies, track progress, and report obstacles
• Effectively overseeing the scope, schedule, quality, funding, risks, challenges, and necessary 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 skilled sparring partner for stakeholders, team, and senior management
  
  

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 good at several of the following and be able to - and interested in - learning the rest:

• Experienced in managing IT projects within an international IT company, familiar with both waterfall and agile IT methodologies
• 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 proficient analytical skills with focus on business outcome and complete solutions
• Adept at prioritizing tasks to ensure effective deadlines
• Proficient 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 maintaining a professional demeanor
• Collaborative and contributing to a good team spirit, working in a demanding environment
• Advanced communication skills in English
  
  

Benefits

Attractive salary and bonus scheme are essential for any work agreement. However, in SimCorp, we believe we can offer more. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide an work & private life balance: a hybrid workplace model and extra days of vacation. We also practice a tailored approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take.

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.

For any questions you are welcome to contact Oleksandra Nelipa, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, at [email protected]. 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.