Data Project Manager - Treasury
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About the Role
Virtusa is looking for a Data Project Manager to lead data platform delivery for Treasury in Dubai. The role involves end-to-end ownership of data platform lifecycle, stakeholder alignment, cross-functional squad leadership, and program scaling within financial services.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the complete lifecycle of data platform delivery, managing transition from design sprints into complex engineering and implementation phases
- Partner with business heads, domain owners, and executive data leadership to unpack strategic vision, drive use case prioritization, and establish organizational buy in
- Coordinate and steer a hybrid delivery model, ensuring alignment between onsite consulting leadership, client enterprise architecture teams, and offshore engineering pods
- Define and lock down MVP boundaries, manage critical path dependencies, and author robust implementation roadmaps
- Establish governance and delivery frameworks to replicate and scale data platform capabilities beyond the initial domain
Requirements
- Deep project management experience within Corporate Banking, Wealth Management, or Markets ecosystems
- Proven track record of successfully delivering large scale data programs, including modern Cloud Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, and Data Product architectures (Azure, Databricks, or Cloudera)
- Strong execution knowledge of data governance principles, master data management (MDM), data quality frameworks, and enterprise data cataloging workflows
- Demonstrated success in holding multi phase, long term programs together, navigating from conceptual design to physical deployment
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Key Responsibilities
- End to End Delivery Ownership: Lead the complete lifecycle of data platform delivery, managing the transition from high velocity design sprints into multi month, complex engineering and implementation phases.
- Stakeholder & Domain Alignment: Partner with business heads, domain owners, and executive data leadership to unpack strategic vision, drive use case prioritization, and establish organizational buy in.
- Cross Functional Squad Leadership: Coordinate and steer a hybrid delivery model, ensuring seamless alignment between onsite consulting leadership, client enterprise architecture teams, and offshore engineering pods.
- Scope & Roadmapping Strategy: Define and lock down MVP boundaries, manage critical path dependencies, and author robust implementation roadmaps that translate architectural design into concrete business value.
- Program Scaling & Expansion: Establish the governance and delivery frameworks required to replicate and scale data platform capabilities beyond the initial domain, driving long term data monetization across the enterprise.
Required Skills & Experience
- Financial Services Domain Mastery: Deep project management experience within Corporate Banking, Wealth Management, or Markets ecosystems, with a strong familiarity with bank grade security, data sovereignty, and financial regulatory landscapes.
- Technical Data Acumen: Proven track record of successfully delivering large scale data programs, including modern Cloud Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, and Data Product architectures (specifically across Azure, Databricks, or Cloudera environments).
- Enterprise Scale Governance: Strong execution knowledge of data governance principles, master data management (MDM), data quality frameworks, and enterprise data cataloging workflows.
- Strategic Longevity: Demonstrated success in holding multi phase, long term programs together, navigating the shift from abstract conceptual design to hard physical software deployment while maintaining velocity and stakeholder trust.
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