Project Manager

About the role

Requirements

• QUALIFICATIONS:
• - Bachelor’s Degree required; Master’s Degree preferred.
• - 6+ years in technology delivery, including end-to-end ownership of complex projects.
• - Experience owning a product backlog and working directly with Agile delivery teams.
• - Payments, banking, or regulated financial services experience..
• - Professional Certificates (PMP or PRINCE2, plus CSPO/PSPO or equivalent product certification)

Responsibilities

• Main Duties and Responsibilities:
• - Manage technology projects from initiation and planning through execution, deployment, and closure.
• - Define project scope, objectives, milestones, deliverables, timelines, and resource requirements.
• - Coordinate across business, engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, operations, and vendors.
• - Monitor progress and ensure delivery against agreed milestones and commitments.
• - Identify, assess, and manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and changes.
• - Manage project budgets and track financial performance.
• - Manage vendor deliverables, SLAs, and commercial dependencies.
• - Facilitate governance meetings and provide clear status reporting, including to SteerCo.
• - Ensure deliverables meet agreed quality, change-governance, and regulatory requirements.
• - Coordinate readiness, implementation, and transition activities for production deployment.
• - Maintain project documentation, decisions, risks, actions, and lessons learned.
• - Escalate critical risks and delivery challenges in a timely manner.
• Line ownership:
• - Own and prioritize the product backlog for assigned squads.
• - Translate business objectives into epics, features, and clearly written user stories with acceptance criteria.
• - Define and communicate product roadmap and release scope.
• - Make day-to-day scope and trade-off decisions on behalf of the business.
• - Ensure regulatory and compliance requirements are reflected in backlog items.
• - Accept completed work against defined acceptance criteria.
• - Act as primary point of contact between squads and business stakeholders.
• People Management:
• - Participate in the identification and recruitment of key talent for the department.
• - Manage, guide, and support direct reports in line with set policies and procedures.
• - Set performance objectives, provide support, appraise the team, and give regular feedback.
• - Uphold a high-performance working environment and promote the organization’s values.

Skills

• Project management
• Agile delivery
• Backlog management
• Stakeholder management
• Vendor management
• Risk and issue management
• Budget and financial tracking
• Regulatory and compliance awareness
• Change governance
• Product backlog prioritization
• Epic/feature/story writing
• Release planning
• Governance facilitation
• Production deployment coordination
• CSPO/PSPO or product certification