Job Description

At T. Rowe Price, we identify and actively invest in opportunities to help people thrive in an evolving world. As a premier global asset management organization with more than 85 years of experience, we provide investment solutions and a broad range of equity, fixed income, and multi-asset capabilities to individuals, advisors, institutions, and retirement plan sponsors. We take an active, independent approach to investing, offering our dynamic perspective and meaningful partnership so our clients can feel more confident. 

We believe doing the right thing for our clients and our associates is good business. With a career at the firm, you can expect opportunities to create real impact at work and in your community. You’ll enjoy resources to support your career path, as well as compensation, benefits, and flexibility to enrich your life. Here, you’ll find a collaborative culture that respects and values differences and colleagues who share a spirit of generosity.  

Join us for the opportunity to grow and make a difference in ways that matter to you. 

Role Summary

Technical Program Managers play a vital role in shaping the future of financial services, collaborating closely with technology teams and business partners to create innovative client experiences. This position will serve as the Lead Technology Program Manager for a key growth initiative focused on enhancing Individual Investor (II) services. The primary focus for this initiative will be the development of a modern, scalable platform that streamlines product distribution, improves user experience, digitizes manual processes, and elevates brokerage services. This strategic effort is foundational for advancing retail brokerage and advice offerings, as well as supporting new partnership opportunities.

We will expect you to be agile / to lead / to think outside the box. In return, we’ll give you challenging work that has an impact / opportunities to learn and grow / and a collaborative culture that encourages every member of our team to bring their point of view to the table—because that’s how we help our clients succeed.  This incumbent?will work across the organization to help define scope and business requirements as well as drive the milestone delivery while managing risk and change management processes that impact the overall program objectives. 

Are you a leader who can provide direction through large teams of professionals and through other managers? Are you able to work with executives to build and execute on key business priorities? Do you strive to bring both a near and long-term perspective to your decisions? If so, we encourage you to apply. 
 

Responsibilities 

Demonstrates technical expertise to direct and provide guidance for a wide array of activities associated with planning and leading complex technology projects. Complete projects on time, within budget, and to client specifications 

Supports work for more complex projects or a small technology program that is composed of several projects

Will lead a small team for specific project(s) or task(s)

Ensuring a lean-agile mind-set is applied to work projects.  Helps project team members and makes suggestions to improve practices

Will manage and oversee project management activities such as project reporting, project planning, issue/risk identification and tracking, scope management, estimation, internal client management, relationship management, and other project documentation preparation and turnover to production for technology projects of low to medium complexity

Develops the budget and statement of work, including project justification and plan technology projects. Will be responsible for defining roles and responsibilities within the project team. Responsible for monitoring project financials and update plans with accurate, up-to-date information in a timely manner. Follows financial standards and processes (e.g., monthly external revenue accruals, procurement, and external payments)

Coordinates business SMEs and engineers to ensure project is appropriately staffed and resources are properly aligned and managed. Maintains regular contact with internal clients and coordinates and reports on project progress and accomplishments

Works with all required functions and groups to effectively plan and execute sizable projects

Working closely and developing relationships with a variety of business partners to ensure that all user story requirements are understood, documented, and met

Decomposes the most complex problems into discrete work units 

Designs business workflows across a set of application or business domains

Breaking down and communicating to non-technical audiences various complex or vague problems, options, and recommended steps to address

Assisting in implementation of new processes including identification of risks and information gaps that must be addressed to ensure a successful outcome 

Identifies non-obvious relationships and anomalies often overlooked by others, evolving a solution or decision as new information is gained 

Balances strategic and pragmatic concerns when solving problems 

Makes sound decisions with limited facts or resources 

Will continuously look for process improvements 

Leads and helps to influence discussions with the business on multiple options to help solve the root cause, including various trade-offs and recommended approach within a single large-scale business unit 

Accountable for work of self and sometimes others, provides process and standards advice in area of specialty and act as a resource for colleagues with less experience 

Business Knowledge: 

Demonstrates knowledge of Project Portfolio Management principals and technologies 

Highly self-motivated and able to thrive in an extremely fast-paced, ambiguous, and changing environment

Articulates business needs and translate them into technology solutions 

Depending on functional alignment, understanding of the life cycle of the product to the client in Financial Services

Decisions show a focus on current and future business priorities, together with fiscal responsibility 

Advanced knowledge of Asset Management, FinTech, Domain specific to DMS, Corporate, and/or Investments

Qualifications 

Required: 

Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree (or equivalent experience) and 8+ years of related Project/Program Management/Scrum Master experience  

Experience supporting a digital development team (Front End Development team preferred) 

PMP certification and/or Agile Scrum certification

Excellent verbal and written communication and skilled in stakeholder management  

Experienced in facilitation of Roadmap Workshops, Scrum of Scrums and program planning activities

Experience running large-scale multi-discipline efforts across people processes and technology with complex financial services organizations

Demonstrates an understanding of technology infrastructure and nuances, including testing, QA, production environment, test environment, engineering, etc

Is grounded in the taxonomy of what is required to successfully implement an Agile technology program or project 

Abreast of many best-of-class technologies 

Demonstrates technical acumen by providing a clear and concise explanation of business strategy, technical concepts, designs, or implementations to a non-technical audience both verbally and in writing 

Communicates architectural vision to all parties involved in an initiative 

Identifies impacts across teams and coordinates across senior levels to manage dependencies and potentially opposing priorities

Actively contributes to the application portfolio mind-set: what is out-of-date, build vs. buy, similar capabilities

Can identify system/process/data impacts (upstream and downstream) and propose appropriate alternatives/ remediation

Experience working with multiple projects simultaneously to identify, document and manage dependencies and potentially competing priorities

Preferred: 

Financial Services industry experience with a preference for Asset Management

Knowledge of operations for the assigned business unit (i.e., Distribution, Investments, and/or Corporate functions)

FINRA Requirements 

FINRA licenses are not required and will not be supported for this role

Work Flexibility

This role is eligible for hybrid work, with up to three days per week from home.