IT Project Manager - Cards and Payment Domain

Role Overview

Experience and Certification Requirements

• 8–10 years of IT project management experience, preferably in banking, financial services, cards, payments, or digital banking.
• PMP certification is required or strongly preferred.
• Experience managing end-to-end project delivery, including planning, execution, monitoring, risk management, stakeholder coordination, vendor management, and closure.
• Experience with structured governance, documentation, reporting, escalation, and change control practices.

Cards and Banking Domain Knowledge

• Understanding of tokenization, PCI DSS, ePayments, digital wallets, and payment processing flows.
• Knowledge of card schemes, certifications, mandates, and compliance requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management, vendor coordination, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage project risks, issues, dependencies, change requests, and escalations.
• Strong analytical, planning, documentation, and reporting capabilities.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams in banking IT environments.
• Ability to communicate with senior management, business stakeholders, technology teams, and external partners.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a structured and proactive delivery approach.

Joining Time Frame

• Joining is expected within two weeks, with a maximum notice period of one month.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex IT projects across credit cards, debit cards, prepaid cards, ePayments, digital banking, and related regulatory or scheme-driven initiatives.
• Plan, execute, monitor, and close projects within agreed scope, timelines, budget, quality, and governance standards.
• Coordinate business stakeholders, IT teams, vendors, card schemes, compliance teams, and other internal stakeholders.
• Manage project risks, issues, dependencies, change requests, and escalations.
• Manage vendors and support delivery coordination with external partners.
• Maintain project documentation, reporting, governance, escalation, and change control practices.