IT Project Manager

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:

1. Driving & managing digital IT projects as follows:

- Scope to be captured, tracked, controlled & validated to ensure commitment as approved is being delivered

- Timeline to be planned, tracked, controlled & alerted promptly

- Budgeting is to be approved, drawdown, utilized & tracked promptly & accurately

- IT resourcing is to be planned, mobilised & tracked to ensure accountability to the respective role deliverables are met

- Identify deviations 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

2. Ensuring compliance with the bank’s policies & processes for the project-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

3. Manage vendors where the project requires external parties

- Plan, monitor, track, report, pay & close required activities with the vendor

- Ensuring vendor deliverables are validated & synced with payments

- Ensuring tracking of costing & payments promptly

4. 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:

1. Delivery of software in agile and waterfall by application standards

2. Lead the scrum team in using agile & scrum practices

3. Helping the product owner & development team to achieve customer satisfaction

4. Remove impediments & coach the scrum team on removing impediments

Project landscape:

- The role will be managing digital projects for local & regional Maybank entities

- Project management will cover end-to-end project delivery

- Hands-on experience in managing software increments that will be used by millions of Maybank customers

- Close working relationship with business partners in virtual banking

Requirements:

- Degree in related computer science principles

- 6 years experience in an IT project manager role in the context of software delivery with in-house development

- 2 years experience in technical or functional related roles in banking systems by in-house team

- 1-year experience in scrum master role

- Good knowledge of scrum techniques & artifacts, 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

- Organized, detail oriented & thorough

- Strong desire to help improve processes & mentor others

~ PMP, PSM & relevant certifications are not mandatory but would be advantageous

Job Type: Contract
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: RM11,000.00 - RM12,000.00 per month

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Opportunities for promotion

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday