IT Program Manager

Company: Bell Bank
Location: Fargo
Posted on: January 27, 2023

Job Description:

Job DescriptionProgram ManagerIf you like to work with people in a family atmosphere, enjoy great benefits and provide unequaled personal service to every customer, consider a career with Bell Bank.Company Information:Bell Bank was founded in 1966 and headquartered in Fargo, North Dakota and has more than $10 billion in assets. Bell is the 6th largest privately owned bank in the nation. Bell Bank has full-service banking locations in North Dakota, Minnesota and Arizona. Bell has empowered more than $18 million in charitable giving through its unique Pay It Forward initiative, through which every employee chooses each year how to help individuals, families and organizations in need.Bell Bank has been recognized as a top workplace by American Banker, Forbes and Fortune. If you want to work for an established, growing, forward-looking organization with world-class employees, this is the place for you. Let Bell Bank be your destination workplace.Bells Values:As stewards, dedicated to the growth and reputation of this independently owned organization, we are committed to:

• Promoting and sustaining our family atmosphere.
• Providing unequaled personal service to each and every customer.
• Paying it forward by giving back to the communities we serve.Our Bottom Line:Happy Employees! Happy Customers!Job Summary:The Development team at Bell Bank creates and supports applications critical to the organization using a variety of technologies. As a member of that team, the expectations of the Program Manager are a dual focus as a business advocate and being heavily involved in development activities. The ability to be the driver of feature definition and technical solutions, directing the priority of large efforts, while coordinating with the business and development teams. A focus is maximizing the value delivered by the team and ensuring the work is aligned with the needs of the business. The most important aspects of this role are collaborating and coordinating across the organization, managing and prioritizing the work and supporting the teams.Primary Duties:
  • Develop, guide and communicate vision and roadmaps of assigned programs, supporting the development team to continuously deliver the highest-value output.
  • Manage and prioritize team backlogs as a representative of the business within project management activities and the software development lifecycle.
  • Collaborate with the business and development teams to understand customer needs, identify features and proposed solutions.
  • Define requirements and create user stories, establish acceptance criteria, and report defects to support continuous value flow.
  • Connect with customers, stakeholders, compliance, and vendors as a liaison between the business and technical teams.
  • Coordinate and participate in planning, reviews, demos and feedback sessions, acceptance testing, solution adoption, training, and support.
  • Ongoing support of production while coordinating with the business and team leads and architects on future development activities.
  • Continue to expand working knowledge of the domain, help improve processes and tools, and be continuously improving.
  • Know, understand, and live the company values and bottom line.
  • Conduct activities consistent with established Bell Bank policies, procedures and systems, the Bell Bank Employee Conduct policies, the Bank Secrecy Act and all applicable state and federal laws and regulations.
  • All employees are responsible for information security, including compliance with policies and standards which protect sensitive information.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.Job Skills Required:
    • Experience in software product development and integrations, project management methodologies and/or agile practices.
    • Strong knowledge of bank operations, financial technology and/or information technology domains.
    • Familiarity with requirements gathering, planning, prioritization and scope management, issue tracking, testing and release activities.
    • Experience with software development lifecycles and continuous integration/continuous delivery workflows.
    • Strong communication and problem solving skills with the ability to work in a team environment.
    • B.S. in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related education and/or +7 years experience desiredLocation:
      • Fargo, NDBell Bank provides competitive compensation and an excellent benefits package.Bell Bank Equal Opportunity Employerby Jobble

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