Job Summary: Junior Project Manager
We are looking for a proactive and skilled Junior Project Manager to join our team in delivering a high-impact Core Banking Transformation project. This initiative aims to replace legacy systems with modern, scalablesolutions for trade, lending, CASA, and payments. As part of the project, you will be responsible for managing the data management platform, onboarding data sources, and mapping data for downstream systems. This role offers a great opportunity to be involved in a large-scale transformation and will require strong leadership, project management skills, and a deep understanding of data management processes.
Key Responsibilities
1. Project Leadership & Planning:
- Develop and maintain the integrated project roadmap, ensuring alignment with the overarching core banking transformation strategy.
- Lead the planning, work breakdown, and scheduling of multiple sub-streams, including platform builds and data source onboarding.
- Work with business and IT leadership to define project scopes, secure budget approvals, and establish success criteria.
2. Project Execution & Delivery:
- Implement a robust project management framework to track schedules, timelines, and progress using tools like JIRA or MS Project.
- Organize regular check-ins with internal and vendor teams to monitor and support project progress.
- Ensure successful project delivery on time, within budget, and to agreed-upon quality standards by overseeing project teams.
3. Governance, Risk, & Compliance:
- Monitor and manage project budgets, ensuring adherence to financial plans.
- Ensure compliance with vendor contracts and project deliverables under the SDLC process.
- Maintain and update the RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) log, proactively identifying and mitigating risks.
- Manage the end-to-end SDLC process, from initiation to closure, ensuring all stages are completed successfully.
4. Stakeholder Management & Communication:
- Maintain regular communication with key stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment.
- Prepare and present status reports, executive summaries, and project dashboards to various audiences, ranging from technical teams to senior leadership.
Key Deliverables:
The Junior Project Manager will be accountable for the following:
- Integrated Project Roadmap: Manage a comprehensive, living roadmap detailing the timeline, major milestones, dependencies, and critical path throughout the project duration.
- Process Compliance: Comply to the SDLC process for projects, ensuring compliance from initiation to closure.
- Resource & Financial Management: Detailed resource plans and accurate budget tracking and forecasting for the entire data project stream.
- RAID Management: Document and consistently maintain the RAID log for projects. Develop and implement risk mitigation strategies to ensure project success.
- Comprehensive Status Reporting & Project Dashboards: Regular, transparent, and data-driven reporting on project health, including progress against plan, budget variance, resource utilization, and risk status.
Qualifications& Experience Required:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related fields.
- 5-10+ years of experience in technology project management, specifically managing large-scale, multi-year projects.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in Banking and Financial Services, with a strong focus on data management.
- Proven experience managing large-scale data projects (e.g., data warehouse implementations, data platform migrations, MDM projects).
- Working knowledge of SDLC and project management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid).
- Experience managing project budgets exceeding $10M.
- Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels.
- Detail-oriented with a focus on delivery and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments and manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
- A collaborative mindset with an aptitude for team coordination across cross-functional groups.
Desired/Preferred:
- Direct experience with core banking system transformations.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-based data platforms (Microsoft Azure preferred, including Databricks, Azure Data Factory, and Synapse).
- Familiarity with data governance frameworks and principles.
- PMP or other relevant project management certifications.
