Senior IT Project Manager - Banking & Agile Delivery
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Project Execution & Delivery Management Manage the complete project lifecycle from initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure. Coordinate internal technology t.
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Responsibilities
- Manage the complete project lifecycle from initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure
- Coordinate internal technology teams, business teams, external vendors, consultants, and delivery partners
- Ensure projects are delivered within agreed timelines, scope, budget, and quality expectations
- Establish project governance frameworks, reporting structures, and communication mechanisms
- Track project progress, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, and corrective actions
- Prepare project status reports, dashboards, MIS reports, and executive updates
- Identify potential project risks, dependencies, and delivery challenges proactively
- Apply Agile delivery practices including Scrum ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog management, retrospectives
Requirements
- Minimum 8 years of experience as an IT Project Manager
- Overall experience of 12+ years in technology delivery environments
- Proven experience managing complex enterprise IT projects and transformation programmes
- Strong experience delivering technology projects within banking or financial services environments
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and Scrum framework
- Experience working with Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery approaches
- Strong project planning, scheduling, monitoring, and reporting skills
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Project Execution & Delivery Management
- Manage the complete project lifecycle from initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure.
- Coordinate internal technology teams, business teams, external vendors, consultants, and delivery partners.
- Ensure projects are delivered within agreed timelines, scope, budget, and quality expectations.
- Drive execution across multiple teams and workstreams while managing dependencies and delivery priorities.
- Monitor project deliverables and ensure adherence to defined quality standards.
- Manage project resources effectively and ensure teams have the required information and support to deliver successfully.
Project Monitoring, Governance & Reporting
- Establish project governance frameworks, reporting structures, and communication mechanisms.
- Track project progress, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, and corrective actions.
- Prepare project status reports, dashboards, MIS reports, and executive updates.
- Lead project meetings including daily stand ups, project reviews, governance forums, and steering committee meetings.
- Provide clear visibility of project status, delivery risks, and escalation points to senior stakeholders.
- Ensure project documentation is maintained according to PMO and quality management standards.
Risk, Issue & Change Management
- Identify potential project risks, dependencies, and delivery challenges proactively.
- Develop mitigation strategies and contingency plans to minimize project impact.
- Manage project changes including scope changes, timelines, resource adjustments, and business priorities.
- Ensure compliance with organizational governance processes, risk frameworks, audit requirements, and regulatory standards.
- Manage escalations effectively and drive resolution of critical delivery issues.
Agile & Delivery Methodology
- Apply Agile delivery practices including Scrum ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog management, retrospectives, and continuous improvement.
- Experience managing projects using Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery models.
- Support teams in adopting Agile practices while ensuring governance and delivery discipline.
- Drive collaboration between business, product owners, engineering teams, QA, operations, and other stakeholders.
Required Skills & Experience
- Minimum 8 years of experience as an IT Project Manager.
- Overall experience of 12+ years in technology delivery environments.
- Proven experience managing complex enterprise IT projects and transformation programmes.
- Strong experience delivering technology projects within banking or financial services environments.
- Demonstrated experience managing business and technology projects simultaneously.
- Strong understanding of end to end IT project management lifecycle.
- Experience working with banking technology platforms, enterprise applications, and digital transformation initiatives.
- Understanding of business platforms, core platforms, and enterprise IT ecosystems.
- Experience coordinating multiple technology teams including development, testing, infrastructure, operations, and vendors.
- Exposure to regulated environments with strong governance, compliance, risk, and audit requirements.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and Scrum framework.
- Experience working with Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery approaches.
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