Project Manager (Banking)

The Project Manager at Systems Limited will lead and deliver complex banking and financial technology initiatives across the full project lifecycle, ensuring alignment with business goals, regulatory requirements, and budgets. This role requires at least 8 years of project management experience, including 5+ years in the Banking/Financial Services sector, strong cross-functional coordination, and expertise in both Agile and traditional delivery methodologies.

Responsibilities:

· Lead and manage end-to-end banking technology projects, ensuring successful delivery within scope, time, and budget.

· Collaborate with developers, QA teams, infrastructure teams, business analysts, compliance, and stakeholders to define and deliver project outcomes.

· Apply suitable project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid) based on project requirements.

· Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.

· Identify and manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests, ensuring compliance with banking regulations.

· Ensure timely documentation, progress tracking, and transparent communication with all stakeholders.

· Coordinate with vendors, system integrators, and third parties for effective integration and delivery of external components.

· Promote Agile best practices and continuous improvement within project teams.

· Use tools such as JIRA, MS Project, or Azure DevOps for planning, execution, and reporting.

· Work closely with infrastructure & security teams to ensure readiness and stability of environments, including servers, networks, storage, cloud platforms and compliance.

· Oversee infrastructure-related dependencies such as hardware provisioning, virtualization, and system performance during project execution.

Qualifications:

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Banking/Finance, or related field.

· PMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum, or other project management certifications are a plus.

· 8+ years of experience managing IT projects, with 5+ years in Banking or Financial Services.

· Proven success in Agile, hybrid, and traditional delivery models within banking or financial technology projects.

· Proficient in project management tools: JIRA, MS Project, Azure DevOps.

· Strong understanding of SDLC, banking applications (core banking, payments, digital banking), and IT delivery frameworks.

· Strong familiarity with infrastructure technologies such as networking, servers, storage, virtualization (VMware/Hyper-V), middleware, cloud platforms (Azure/AWS), and security controls.

· Experience coordinating across infra, development, QA, business, compliance, and risk teams.

· Excellent leadership, organizational, stakeholder management, communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.

· Ability to manage multiple priorities in fast-paced banking environments.

· Familiarity with banking regulations, security standards, and governance frameworks.