Senior Information Technology Project Manager

Overview
Hybrid: 2 days in-office (will increase to 4 days in future)

Contract Duration: ASAP to 12 months contract

Possibility of extension:
Yes, based on performance and business needs

Conversion to FTE:
May be, based on performance and business needs

Schedule

Hours:

9am-5pm Monday-Friday; standard 37.5 hrs/week

Key Accountabilities

Agile Project Management

Tracking projects through each phase of project lifecycle, facilitates scrum ceremonies

Work with all the dependent teams and prepare an execution plan

Working with various teams to achieve end-to-end project delivery

Ensure milestones are met and the project has gone through all approval gates

Ability to work effectively with engineering Sr Managers when needed to remediate risk around project delivery.

Engage stakeholders (e.g. risk, legal, audit) as needed for consultation throughout the course of the project.

Communication &

Collaboration:

Scrum Master

Contribute to the productivity and happiness of the scrum team

Supporting project team members in challenging situations (resource / release challenges, cross-team communication)

Scheduling ad-hoc meetings to solve for disagreements or ambiguities in order to reduce risk of jeopardizing milestones and or artifacts

Ease conversations and promote constructive attitude

Facilitate and ensure healthy communication between project team members

Scheduling and chairing scrum ceremonies.

Accountable for conducting regular retros and addressing team’s feedback

Monitor scrum team progress by preparing reports/charts

Understanding team strengths and weaknesses in order to improve each phase of the project lifecycle

Providing feedback to help improving processes and tools

Working on aligning best practices across delivery team

Continuous improvement and learning from other delivery team members

Take active role on application audit related activities

Be able to adjust, learn and iterate frequently

Candidate Requirements / Must Have Skills

8-10 years of experience as a Project Manager or related industry experience

5+ years of experience with cloud technologies (GCP (preferred), Azure, AWS)

5+ years of recent experience managing large-scale migration and infrastructure projects, ideally involving platform retirement or cloud re‑platforming.

5–7 years of experience delivering complex software projects, preferably involving CI/CD pipelines or modern Dev Ops environments.

Strong Agile delivery experience, including proven execution of Scrum ceremonies and Agile project governance.

Nice-To-Have Skills

Previous experience with banks or large financial institutions

Recent experience with CI/CD pipeline design or implementation

PMP / CSM / PSM

Degrees or certifications

Bachelor’s Degree level or above education, ideally in business, financial or technology

Certified Scrum master certification (CSM) is must have

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