IT Project Manager (Wholesale IT)

Expected

• Agile

• Confluence

• Jira

• Android

• iOS

• Browser

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, engineering, business or related field

• 5+ years of experience in project management of system / infrastructure/ projects, network and ITIL processes design and implementation

• Experience managing the delivery of large programmes (USD $1m+).

• Relevant product knowledge, including knowledge of standard project management tools and methodologies, including tools /packages like Jira, Confluence, Clarity, Open Workbench, MS Project, MS Office etc.

• Sound analytical skills with an ability to understand complex technical and business engineering projects

• A successful track record of delivering complex projects and/or programmes and managing technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences.

• Build strong relationships across service line and with our internal partners in other service lines and central ITID teams.

• Experience in entire project lifecycle (from initiation to post implementation review) and take responsibility for the delivery of all components of the project released into Production.

• Creating and maintaining standard project management artefacts to conform to standards.

• Track, Plan and coordinate end to end multiple project delivery across components and teams that are responsible for successful delivery of the project

• Manage the reporting of progress, issues, dependencies and risks and make recommendations to influence decision making in order to maintain progress towards delivery and benefits realisation.

• Manage programme budgets, including headcount and software delivery capitalisation.

• Manage negotiation with and management of and service agreement monitoring of third party contracts with technology suppliers.

• Building and maintaining strong relationships with business partners and other IT stakeholders.

• Leading and motivating the project team towards successful delivery, this will be spread across numerous diverse locations.

• Reporting, verbally and in writing, project status and progress to senior managers and stakeholders.

• Naturally accountable and responsible, self-starting approach, self –motivating with strong facilitation skills

• Manage risks and issues proactively, track, mitigate and escalate; where required.

• Strong servant leadership skills & relationship management and networking skills

• Excellent presentation and negotiating skills

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Optional

• People management, Performance management, Vendor management experience

• Experience with Cloud services, Containerization and operating system would be an advantage.

• Agile SCRUM experience

• Experienced in scrum master and people management

• Understanding and implementation of key agile artefacts

• Understanding of Agile metrics and reporting. Release burn downs, Sprint Burn downs, Velocity etc. & User story mapping

• Story point sizing and ranking according to value based priorities for evaluation of a Minimum Viable Product

• Experience in Banking industry and have managed large scale projects.

• Ensuring the adherence to architecture standards, along with compliance with FIM, SOX, etc.

• Understanding of Commercial Lending domains

• Any Kanban skills, restriction of WIP

• Any BDD development or implementation

• Agile risk management

• An understanding of Receivables Finance & GTRF domain would be an added advantage.

• Experience in Broadcom Plex & Java would be advantageous.

• Role relevant qualifications, e.g. PMI accreditation is desirable but not essential.