System IT Strategy, Delivery, and Performance officer

Job Description

System IT Strategy, Delivery, and Performance Officer | Federal Reserve Bank of New York

The Tone:
This is a full-time, regular role at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, with eligible locations including Boston, MA; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Cleveland, OH; Richmond, VA; Atlanta, GA; Chicago, IL; St. Louis, MO; Minneapolis, MN; Kansas City, MO; Dallas, TX; and San Francisco, CA. The Federal Reserve, as the nation’s central bank, plays a key role in strengthening and protecting economic, financial, and payments systems. This senior executive position is vital for shaping and operating the System IT strategic planning and performance ecosystem. The role ensures the System’s technology strategy is actionable, measurable, and consistently delivered through unified, modern practices across the Federal Reserve System.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Regular
• Location: In-person, Boston, MA; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Cleveland, OH; Richmond, VA; Atlanta, GA; Chicago, IL; St. Louis, MO; Minneapolis, MN; Kansas City, MO; Dallas, TX; San Francisco, CA
• Pay: $301900–$482500 yearly
• Team: Directs the Strategy, Delivery and Performance pillar, collaborating with CIO portfolio leaders and System IT leadership.
• Mission: This person shapes and operates the System IT strategic planning and performance ecosystem, ensuring the System’s technology strategy is actionable, measurable, and consistently delivered through unified, modern practices.
• Tech Stack: Jira, Jira Align, FedPPM, Confluence

What You’ll Actually Do
• Strategic Planning: Develop and evolve System IT strategic plans, enterprise outcomes, annual operating plans, and multi-year transformation roadmaps, translating strategy into measurable initiatives in collaboration with portfolio leads.
• Delivery Advancement: Enhance delivery quality, risk identification, compliance, and predictability across programs and initiatives by advancing SIT’s unified delivery model and stewarding enterprise delivery standards.
• Performance Reporting: Own SIT performance reporting, ensuring enterprise dashboards and executive reporting provide accurate, timely insights into delivery health, strategic outcomes, and operational performance to inform executive decision-decision making.
• Work Orchestration: Oversee Work Orchestration Tooling (e.g., Jira, Jira Align, FedPPM, Confluence), ensuring systemwide consistency and alignment across agile, project management, financial management, and portfolio tools.
• Project Excellence: Oversee the Agile Center of Excellence to develop enterprise-wide agile coaching, practice scaling, tooling consistency, and adoption support, ensuring modernized project management standards are consistently applied.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as communications, organizational leadership, or business, or a related field is required. This is an executive leadership role focused on enterprise-scale IT strategy, delivery, and performance within a technology scope or organization.
• Experience: 10-15+ years leading enterprise-scale organizational change or strategy functions in a technology scope or organization, with proven success managing multi-disciplinary teams supporting enterprise delivery, strategy, and change. Experience influencing senior executives and operating in distributed or federated environments is essential.
• Skills: Expert in strategic communication, executive storytelling, and simplifying complex technical concepts into clear, actionable insights. Proven ability to build enterprise communication and change standards, drive portfolio alignment, and ensure predictable adoption of transformation initiatives. Experience implementing agile methodology and standardized project management practices at scale, combined with comfort working with enterprise tooling platforms (e.g., Jira, FedPPM, Jira Align) that support transparency, planning, and strategic alignment.
• Bonus: An advanced degree such as an MBA, MPA, or MS-Organizational Change, or professional certifications in change, strategy, or communications are preferred.