Senior Technical Project Manager - Retail Banking

Summary role description:

Hiring for a Senior Technical Project Manager – Digital Banking for a leading BankTech SaaS Mobile App platform provider.

Company description:

Our client is a Singapore Headquartered leading digital banking solutions provider, with a strong track record in designing, developing, and deploying digital solutions for leading banks across Asia, the Middle East and Africa. They partner with our clients in their digital transformation journey, delivering best-in-class UX and innovative new services built on a secure, scalable digital platform. Our client is the currently the partner of choice for several top banks for their digital banking needs. Our client provides cloud native, SaaS-deployable digital solutions enable banks to efficiently process $100B+ in transactions annually and significantly grow their online customer bases by offering award-winning, secure, and personalized UX.

Role details:

• Title / Designation: Senior Technical Project Manager – Digital Banking
• Reporting Manager: Delivery Lead
• Location: Chennai
• Work Mode: Hybrid (3 days office; 2 days work-from-home)

Role & responsibilities:

• Lead mobile App product implementation projects, including integration with core banking systems already being used by banking clients
• Leverage deep hands-on technical expertise relating to mobile App implementation AND core system integration interface with client stakeholders internal project team members
• Leverage digital banking domain expertise interface with client stakeholders internal project team members, to steer the project to success in terms of agreed client facing and internal KPI’s
• Be a project management best practices champion with proficient usage of tools like Jira, aligning them with practices for project management excellence
• Lead both web and mobile banking projects, with a focus on retail and mobile banking solutions.
• Ensure team members are informed, have clear goals, and work collaboratively and in partnership with clients and other stakeholders to achieve planned outcomes.
• Drive project execution; track delivery; expect, monitor and control change, own change management; pro-actively seek and resolve blockers.
• Ensure on-time delivery of projects while maintaining high quality standards.
• Implement and oversee quality check processes for all projects.
• Manage projects within agreed governance structures and processes, to ensure consistency of approach and efficient use of resources.
• Conduct progress reviews to give stakeholders confidence that projects will deliver to time, budget and agreed standards.

Candidate requirements:

• 14+ years of experience with minimum 6 years into successful project management experience delivering software mobile based solutions to Digital Banking/Retail Banking domains.
• Must have track record of achieving high CSAT scores for delivered projects/products.
• Experience in handling a project team of 30+ people
• Experience in managing projects with P&L responsibilities is preferred.
• Experience in manage multiple projects simultaneously, including those with end-to-end integration.
• Must have excellent problem solving, presentation and leadership skills and the ability to comprehend, analyse and communicate both macro and low-level pictures to all levels of the organization, including senior management.
• Requires excellent analytical ability, facilitation and communication skills, plus strong judgment, and decision-making abilities.
• PMP certification & Scrum Certification are a plus.

Selection process:

• Discussion with Delivery Lead
• Discussion with CTO
• Discussion with CEO
• HR discussions

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