Technical Project Manager – Banking IT Operations (m/f/d)
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About the Role
Halian seeks a Technical Project Manager to lead IT infrastructure, security, and operations projects for a major financial institution in Riyadh. The role involves project planning, vendor management, and compliance within a regulated banking environment.
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Responsibilities
- Lead end to end delivery of IT infrastructure and operations projects within the banking environment
- Develop detailed project plans, technical work breakdown structures, and dependency maps
- Oversee scope, schedules, risks, budgets, and resources across multiple concurrent workstreams
- Manage upgrades, migrations, and deployments with minimal business disruption following structured change management
- Ensure projects comply with architectural, cybersecurity, and regulatory requirements
- Implement standardized project delivery frameworks to improve operational consistency
- Manage vendors and external service partners ensuring contractual and SLA compliance
- Provide clear project reporting, risk updates, and audit responses to leadership and governance forums
- Coordinate across infrastructure, cloud, networking, application, and security teams
- Enforce adherence to IT risk management, cybersecurity frameworks, and regulatory standards
Requirements
- 5 10+ years of IT project management experience, ideally within banking or financial services
- Strong background in infrastructure, cloud, and cybersecurity delivery
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field
- Expertise in project planning, RAID logs, governance reporting, and stakeholder engagement
- Certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, or Agile methodologies preferred
Full Job Posting
Role Overview
- A global technology and consulting services provider supporting major financial institutions across the region is seeking a Technical Project Manager – Banking IT Operations to lead complex IT infrastructure, security, and operations initiatives within a highly regulated banking environment.
- The role will work closely with engineering teams, vendors, and business stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of mission‑critical projects.
Responsibilities
- Lead end to end delivery of IT infrastructure and operations projects within the banking environment.
- Develop detailed project plans, technical work breakdown structures, and dependency maps.
- Oversee scope, schedules, risks, budgets, and resources across multiple concurrent workstreams.
- Manage upgrades, migrations, and deployments with minimal business disruption following structured change management.
- Ensure projects comply with architectural, cybersecurity, and regulatory requirements.
- Implement standardized project delivery frameworks to improve operational consistency.
- Oversee workstreams involving collaboration platform upgrades, security control implementation, observability solutions, and cloud operations.
- Manage initiatives across servers, networks, storage, virtualization, and disaster recovery/continuity environments.
- Manage vendors and external service partners ensuring contractual and SLA compliance.
- Provide clear project reporting, risk updates, and audit responses to leadership and governance forums.
- Coordinate across infrastructure, cloud, networking, application, and security teams.
- Enforce adherence to IT risk management, cybersecurity frameworks, and internal/external regulatory standards.
Qualifications & Skills
- 5–10+ years of IT project management experience, ideally within banking or financial services.
- Strong background in infrastructure, cloud, and cybersecurity delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex technical initiatives simultaneously.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise collaboration systems, identity platforms, and directory services.
- Understanding of networking fundamentals, cloud platforms (Azure/AWS), and observability technologies.
- Familiarity with IT security controls, compliance standards, and virtualization platforms.
- Knowledge of ITSM processes aligned with ITIL.
- Expertise in project planning, RAID logs, governance reporting, and stakeholder engagement.
- Proficiency in project delivery tools (e.g., MS Project, Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence).
- Certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, or Agile methodologies are preferred.
- Strong leadership and communication abilities.
- Capable of translating complex technical information for executive stakeholders.
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