Project Manager

To lead the end-to-end planning and delivery of technology projects, ensuring agreed scope, timelines, budget, quality, risks, and business objectives are effectively managed and achieved. 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
• Desired Candidate Profile

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)