Senior Technical Project Manager (Airline Reservation & Revenue Management Systems)

Location

• Dubai, UAE, at the client site.

Salary and Benefits

• Salary is AED 25,000–AED 28,000 per month.
• Benefits include work visa, air tickets, medical insurance, gratuity, and paid time off.

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Lead projects from scoping, estimation, and planning through build, testing, deployment, and hypercare.
• Manage multiple customer engagements while aligning requirements, schedules, resources, and deliverables.
• Coordinate vendors and GDS partners on integrations, interfaces, ownership, and delivery commitments.
• Oversee migrations, API integrations, EDIFACT/NDC message flows, cutover planning, data reconciliation, and rollback readiness.
• Manage risks, change control, stakeholder communication, KPIs, budgets, and delivery performance.
• Translate business needs into technical requirements and resolve business-engineering disagreements.

Required Technical Skills

• Experience delivering airline reservation systems, PSS, GDS connectivity, revenue-management, or inventory-control platforms is required.
• Working knowledge of EDIFACT, NDC, API integrations, and large-system migration approaches is required.
• Understanding of SDLC, Agile, Waterfall, and technical delivery processes is required.
• Experience managing vendors, partners, risks, change control, and budgets across multi-stakeholder programmes is required.
• Familiarity with IATA, PADIS, and NDC standards is required.
• PMP, PRINCE2, or a recognized Agile certification is a plus.

Candidate Profile

• At least 8 years of project management experience, including enterprise or multi-stakeholder programmes.
• Ability to manage multiple customers and vendors without losing delivery quality or stakeholder trust.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills at senior and executive levels.
• Comfort operating in fast-moving airline environments with shifting priorities and strict standards.