Description
Description
The Project Manager-Data Science is part of the Client Development & Research division facilitating collaboration between Data Science, Marketing, Sales, and Product teams. This role will ensure proper planning, execution, and delivery of high impact analytics projects.
Principal Accountabilities:
- As a member of the Data Science department, partner with cross functional teams to define and document data science project deliverables and timelines, dependencies and priorities
- Understanding of the broader CME business to map commercial needs to data science projects
- Learn about and understand analytics, technology, and trading platforms (e.g. cloud-based technologies, visualization tools, and trading strategies)
- Execute project plans and support successful program delivery in accordance to Data Science standards
- Partner with senior team members to effectively plan project phasing, goals, and priorities
- Serve as a conduit of knowledge between functional and technical teams
- Communicate regularly with individuals both within and outside of our team, managing relationships and expectations. Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders
- Navigate ambiguity to deliver results
- Provide consultation, business analysis, project management, and leadership on multiple projects of varying duration, size, and complexity
- Motivate teams to work together, communicate, and deliver
- Elicit, translate, and simplify requirements
- Document and organize acceptance criteria for user stories
- Manage scope, timeline and resources throughout the course of all assigned projects.
- Clarify project team member task assignments and regularly monitor progress towards project milestones.
- Communicate and document project status to department senior management to ensure that project priorities and status is understood.
- Identify, document, and escalate project risks and challenges to Program Manager and project stakeholders
- Lead project teams during all phases of the development life cycle including requirements gathering and analysis, design, build, pilot, implementation, and continuous service
- Facilitate client and project team interactions including: scrums, sprint planning, sprint retrospectives, sprint reviews, incident management and release management
- Work with technical leads and program manager to plan, develop technical scopes of work, and manage the execution of project changes in response to requirements from stakeholders
- Be self-supportive in collaborating with peers to effectively deliver a robust solution for the business
Qualifications
- 2+ years of Project Management experience, preferably managing Data Science projects
- 2+ years of working with project management tools and techniques (for example Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, Workfront, Scrum etc.)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Former technical experience is preferred
- Strong business to technical documentation requirement skills
- Strong interest in financial markets data and data science preferred
Education
- Bachelor's degree preferably in business/finance or an analytical field such as Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science. Master's degree a plus
- PMP certification required
- Agile certification or experience
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