Job description
Position Title: Senior Project Manager - Payments Technology Projects
Role: ICT Project Manager - 135112
Key Responsibilities The Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading teams to deliver project(s) that span across one or more business units. Manage resources, schedules, financials and adhere to stage gate quality and SDLC control guidelines throughout the full systems development lifecycle. This also includes management of issues, risks and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery. Contribute to process improvement initiatives as it relates to improving project delivery. The Senior Project Manager has the authority to run the project on a day-to-day basis. Verify that the project produces the required deliverables of quality, within the specified constraints of time and cost and to achieve the potential benefits defined in the business case.
Skills and experience Total experience – 15 years+. Experience as a project manager, 8+ years; specific project experience in payments or payments related banking projects as a project manager or release lead – 4+ years. Experience in Agile project development in any role – 4+ years. Bachelor’s degree in technology, engineering or business management. Strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills including the ability to lead up, across and down multiple business and technology organizations. Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence. Build and maintain relationships by engaging business leaders to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus and achieve objectives. Excellent leadership, communication (written, verbal and presentation) and interpersonal skills. Decisive and assertive, with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands Self-driven and motivated attitude – ability to look for possibilities with ‘growth mindset’. We are looking for people who are driven for client value creation and who are integrity-focused, hard-working and can collaborate with clients.