Dear Applicant,
If you or someone you know is interested, please send the CV directly to ************* (most preferred, as I may overlook some CVs due to the high volume).
Please note that visa sponsorship is not available at this time.
Key Responsibilities
Program Management
- Drive the overall end-to-end program and project management across data and technology initiatives, from planning through execution and delivery.
- Lead data platform and data warehouse migration initiatives, ensuring delivery within agreed scope, timeline, budget and quality standards.
- Partner with stakeholders across Data, Technology, Finance and Business units to align priorities, manage dependencies and ensure successful outcomes.
- Drive data, design and solution discussions with vendors, technology teams, data teams and user groups.
- Direct internal and external project resources across multiple workstreams to deliver agreed project outcomes.
- Coordinate migration activities across data engineering, application, infrastructure, architecture and business teams.
Project Governance
- Establish and maintain appropriate project governance, ensuring clear ownership, milestones, deliverables and decision-making processes.
- Organise and chair governance meetings, including preparation of meeting materials, status updates and minutes.
- Ensure project deliverables comply with bank policies, data governance standards, security controls and regulatory requirements.
- Measure, monitor and report project progress, key milestones, risks, issues and dependencies to stakeholders and senior management.
Scope Management
- Manage and control the agreed project scope across data migration and technology workstreams.
- Review and assess scope changes and their impact on project timelines, costs, resources and delivery.
- Ensure all change requests are appropriately assessed, documented and approved through the relevant governance process.
Risk, Issue & Testing Management
- Identify, assess and proactively manage risks and issues affecting the project, including financial, operational, technical and data-related risks.
- Manage cross-workstream dependencies and proactively escalate critical risks and issues to relevant stakeholders.
- Drive the overall migration and testing strategy, coordinating testing cycles across system integration, data validation, reconciliation and UAT.
- Ensure critical and high-priority defects are appropriately tracked and resolved within the agreed testing cycle.
- Coordinate migration readiness, cutover planning and post-migration validation activities.
Stakeholder Management
- Manage relationships across Data, Technology, Finance, Business and other functions, ensuring effective collaboration and timely delivery of assigned activities.
- Work closely with technical teams, business users and external vendors to resolve issues and drive project decisions.
- Present project status, key risks, issues and recommendations to senior stakeholders and governance forums.
Key Requirements
- 10+ years of project/program management experience, with a proven track record of leading cross-functional teams and delivering complex technology projects.
- Strong hands-on experience in data platform and/or data warehouse migration projects, ideally within banking or financial services.
- Experience managing end-to-end migration initiatives, including data extraction, transformation, migration, validation, reconciliation, testing and cutover.
- Solid understanding of data management, data platforms, data warehouses, system integration and reporting.
- Experience working across Data Engineering, Architecture, Technology, Business and/or Finance teams.
- Strong understanding of project management principles, with hands-on experience across SDLC and Agile methodologies.
- Proven experience managing project scope, governance, risks, issues, dependencies, change requests, testing and delivery.
- Experience managing internal and external resources, vendors and multiple workstreams in large, matrixed environments.
- Good understanding of banking technology environments, data governance, security controls and regulatory requirements.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective relationships across business and technical teams.
- Confident in presenting to senior leadership and diverse stakeholder groups.
- Highly organised, proactive and resilient, with the ability to manage ambiguity, competing priorities and tight deadlines.
- Proficient in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and project management tools for planning, tracking and reporting.
- Experience with JIRA and working within software development lifecycles.
- Strong data analysis and problem-solving skills.
- PMP certification preferred.