Project Management Lead

• Manage the list of CIB IT projects, collaborating with leadership across the departments and prioritize projects based on the business need.
• Direct the work of Project managers and provides managerial oversight for multiple projects
• Act as point of escalation for the Project management team.
• Create and develop a governance structure for efficient stakeholder management
• Promote the project management service
• Develops organizational project management capabilities through training, coaching, and individual meetings/discussions
• Develop strategy for control and governance structures to ensure desired outcomes across the projects
• Monitor and analyse project metrics and to propose improvements and cost savings for future projects
• Ensure successful delivery of all projects against cost, time, scope, quality and security measures
• Operate autonomously and handle large scale APAC/EMEA regional IT projects by understanding local regulations.
• Clarify the needs of the client and translate them into rigorous requirement lists
• Identify standard and project specific deliverables, key assumptions, follow and mitigate risks and issues
• Anticipate early in the project any compliance / regulatory requirement and start informing stakeholders of such risk and measure their impact
• Define, measure and report project KPI with right level of information
• Identify right resource within teams and constitute / coordinate project team members
• Report or escalate any important risk and issues to Sponsor and local management for appropriate action
• Create, review or adapt when necessary existing processes to make them more relevant, efficient and optimal
• Communicate to Sponsor any change with right level of information and manage to get his approval
• Follow, report budget actual/forecast to project stakeholders and local management
• Set relevant control in place to ensure that what has been delivered meets requirements validated
• Manage and document the project hand over with production teams
• Continuously improve project management toolkits and methodologies

This position requires a minimum of 8 years of relevant experiences, ideally in a CIB banking environment.

• Excellent team management skills
• Strong ability to understand the big picture
• Ability to drill down complex issues to simple comprehensible terms
• Demonstrated skill to work across functions, regions and cultures
• Excellent problem solving and conflict resolution skillset
• Strong communication with wide variety of individuals at all executive levels
• Ability to Influence and motivate

• Bachelor in Engineering or
• Bachelor in Information Technology

• Expertise in project cycle management and methodology
• Ability to anticipate and manage risks
• Hands on knowledge and understanding of Infrastructure main components
• Strong project management experience with ability to work on multiple projects at the same time
• PMP or other certification would be a plus

• High organizational skills including time management
• Excellent verbal and written communication across all levels of the organization
• Team player mindset
• Able to cope with multiple technologies, environment and teams, with high pressure
• Good influencing, negotiation, conflict resolution and data analysis skills

• Experience in dealing with detailed IT Architecture in banking industry.
• Practical knowledge in Network, Security, Data Center, Windows, Linux, Aix, VMware, Citrix, SAN, Kubernetes and Middleware components.
• Exposure working with DevOps & Cloud technologies.
• Familiarity in handling Cyber Security and regulatory projects.
• Strong experience in working with tools like MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Visio.
• Understanding of software development will be a plus