The Digital IT project manager is required to manage IT activities & IT project team members for the application project(s) to achieve the IT objective of the project. This role is a key driver & representation from Group Tech for the IT project.

Digital IT Project Management:

Driving & managing digital customer engagement platform projects as follow:
Scope to be captured, tracked, controlled & validated to ensure commitment as approved is being delivered
Timeline to be planned, tracked, controlled & alerted promptly
Budgeting are to be approved, drawdown, utilised & tracked promptly & accurately
IT resourcing are to be planned, mobilised & tracked to ensure accountability to respective role deliverables are met
Identify deviation in project planning, monitoring, execution & closure to be raised clearly as risks or issues & resolved promptly
All risks & issues for the project is being captured, reported, tracked & resolved to ensure group tech commitment to excellence
Communicate, report & engage with stakeholders as a key representative of group tech to ensure clarity of project progress, deviations, risks & issues are addressed accordingly
Manage programme level controls where required
Ensuring compliance to bank’s policies & processes for project(s) managed
Adherence to IT spend approvals procedures
Adherence to RFP/RFI/demand procedures
Adherence to software delivery lifecycle via waterfall, agile & both
Adherence to project management best practices
Manage vendors where the project requires external parties
Plan, monitor, track, report, pay & close required activities with the vendor
Ensuring vendor deliverables are validated & sync with payments
Ensuring tracking of costing & payments promptly
Understanding of technology in the areas
Digital ecosystem on functional & technical domain knowledge to enable validation of work & problem solving
Understanding of infrastructure is advantageous.

Agile & waterfall software delivery:

Delivery of software in agile and waterfall in accordance to application standards
Lead the scrum team in using agile & scrum practices
Helping the product owner & development team to achieve customer satisfaction
Remove impediments & coach the scrum team on removing impediments.

Project landscape:

The role will be managing digital projects for local & regional Client’s entities
Project management will cover end-to-end project delivery
Hands on experience in managing software incrementals that will be used by millions of Client’s customers
Close working relationship with business partners in virtual banking.

Requirements:

Degree in related computer science principles
6 years’ experience in IT project manager role in the context of software delivery with in-house development
2 year experience in technical or functional related role in banking systems by in-house team
1 year experience in scrum master role
Good knowledge in scrum techniques & artefacts, i..e DoD, stories, backlog, etc
Able to resolve problems creatively
Strong stakeholder management
Proficient in using Jira & Confluence
Strong interpersonal & collaborative skills as well as highly effective communication skills.
Organised, detail oriented & thorough
Strong desire to help improve processes & mentor others
PM, PSM & relevant certifications are not mandatory but would be advantageous.