Project Manager

Project Manager - IT Applications (Banking Domain)

• Lead end-to-end delivery of IT application projects for banking clients, ensuring alignment with business objectives, timelines, budgets, and regulatory requirements.
• Manage project planning, execution, risk management, status reporting, and stakeholder communications across multiple workstreams.
• Collaborate closely with business users, product owners, technology teams, and senior leadership to gather requirements and drive successful project outcomes.
• Coordinate with implementation partners, system integrators, and third-party vendors to ensure timely delivery and adherence to project milestones.
• Act as the primary liaison between onshore business teams and offshore development/support teams, ensuring effective communication and issue resolution.
• Drive application implementation, enhancement, migration, integration, and upgrade initiatives across core banking and enterprise platforms.
• Monitor project scope, dependencies, resource allocation, and change requests while ensuring compliance with banking and information security standards.
• Facilitate Agile/Scrum or Waterfall project governance, including sprint planning, steering committee updates, RAID management, and executive reporting.
• Manage testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), production deployment, and post-implementation support to ensure smooth project transitions.
• Maintain strong stakeholder relationships and proactively identify risks, escalations, and opportunities for process improvement to achieve successful project delivery.

Required Experience:

• 8+ years of IT Project Management experience with banks or financial services organizations.
• Proven experience working with implementation partners, offshore delivery teams, and cross-functional business stakeholders.
• Experience managing application development, integration, and digital transformation projects.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC, Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid project delivery methodologies.
• PMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, or similar certifications preferred.
  

Qualifications

BACHELOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE