Program Manager - Enterprise Connectivity, Financial Solutions (12 Month Contract)

Bloomberg is a global leader in business and financial information, news and insight, and we use innovative technology to deliver trusted data and bring transparency to the financial markets. Our customers around the globe rely on us for the information and tools they need to make critical investment decisions and remain connected across all sides of the financial community. And, to ensure the best experience for our 20,000 employees across 176 offi ces globally, we provide the spaces and systems that allow our teams to work together with agility, productivity and collaboration, no matter where they are.

The Bloomberg Financial Solutions department of 5,000 employees is at the forefront of ensuring success for our customers and employees alike. Our team comprises several key pillars: sales, service, operations, culture and brand. As a department, we are united by a common goal: We create meaningful relationships with clients by understanding their needs and delivering exceptional end-to-end support from sales and implementation, through their ongoing relationship with Bloomberg.

Our Team:
The goal of Bloomberg Connectivity & Integration (BCI) group is to provide a platform for customers to integrate Bloomberg products with their own highly complex and time sensitive software systems.
Our Connectivity teams focus on developing stable, secure and scalable infrastructure to support key connectivity protocols for transferring data. We build elastic connectivity that can endure high throughput under heavy volume, and manage using self-service tools over our large-scale distributed systems and network.

What's the Role?

As a Enterprise Connectivity program manager, you will be responsible for running our strategic programs around adoption of new connectivity solutions for external and internal clients, and drive these initiatives across different groups. We're looking for highly analytical individuals with strong communication and project management skills, who can partner with engineers to onboard new and existing users to our new connectivity infrastructure.

We'll Trust you to

• Plan major programs and socialize them with key stakeholders, coordinate with engineering and service teams to drive adoption of new technology, implementation efforts, and standardization of technology and process.
• Leverage your technical experience and background to analyze systems we integrate with, identify dependency and gaps. Review the alignment of our solution with the business strategy and drive initiatives to constantly raise the bar of our capabilities.
• Manage day-to-day projects but also keep an eye on the big picture and not be afraid to upend existing systems and processes if need be.
• Create accountability with clear progress reporting based on a deep understanding of where barriers to execution exist.
• Coordinate and run quarterly Agile planning across multiple teams

You'll need to have:

• 5 years of relevant experience in a project management capacity, including all aspects of process execution with a focus on agile development practices.
• Experience in full life-cycle project management for large-scale system implementation, across multiple teams
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, be able to articulate and get buy-in from senior stakeholders.
• Excellent organization skills to run programs and projects, socialize initiatives and track timelines
• Technical knowledge to understand and analyze distributed systems, and ability to discuss technical concepts, evaluate trade-offs and devise innovative solutions with engineers
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions and recommendations
• Strong sense of ownership, self-starter and able to drive and take projects across the finish line

We'd love to see:

• Exposure to connectivity protocols like FTP and HTTP
• Experience with agile software development methodologies
• Experience delivering in a dynamic and rapidly changing, technical environment.
• Innovative mind-set, generate ideas to overcome challenges

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What's it Like To Work Here?
We work hard. We are ambitious and set ourselves tough business goals. We are a meritocracy where everyone has a voice - not a job title. Working with people you trust, respect, and can collaborate with is more important than titles or position. Things move fast, and we want people who will enjoy working in this environment and feed off the energy. But it isn't all about work. Giving back is one of our core values, and there are many ways to get involved in philanthropic initiatives from helping local school kids with their reading to helping clean up local parks and waterways.

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