Project Management & Delivery
- Lead the end-to-end planning and execution of cloud and infrastructure initiatives, ensuring adherence to banking security, audit, and compliance requirements.
- Develop and manage project schedules, budgets, and resource allocations with precision.
- Drive day-to-day project execution including workshops, engineering activities, vendor coordination, and delivery tracking.
- Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within approved budgets.
Banking and Regulatory Expertise
- Ensure projects comply with banking regulations such as UAE central bank guidelines, PCI DSS, and other relevant standards.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Partner with cross-functional teams, including IT, cybersecurity, business units, and risk management, to align project objectives with banking priorities.
- Cultivate and maintain robust relationships with key stakeholders, including department heads and essential employees, to secure their support and buy-in for infrastructure projects.
- Regularly communicate project progress, roadblocks, and achievements to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment.
Technical Leadership
- Provide direction to engineering teams on technical requirements, design constraints, and project scope boundaries.
- Review solutions, architecture documents, and change requests to ensure alignment with project objectives.
Risk, Quality and Resource Management:
- Identify, track, and mitigate risks across technology, schedule, and regulatory domains.
- Ensure delivery quality through robust testing, documentation, and acceptance criteria.
- Manage internal and external resources to optimize utilization and performance.
Technical Expertise
- Proven experience delivering projects such as technology refresh, modernization & new platforms implementations in Tech infrastructure landscape.
- Strong understanding of Infrastructure domains: data center, network, servers, storage, virtualization, identity & access management, and cybersecurity alignment.
- Experience coordinating with architects and engineering teams.
Project Management
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
- 10+ years overall IT experience, with at least 6+ years leading large-scale technology projects.
- Proficiency in Project Manageemnt Tooling, and O365 (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
- Strong understanding of project governance frameworks (PMO, SDLC, Agile/Waterfall).
- Demonstrated experience in developing and managing:
- Detailed project plans or Agile scrum plans
- RAID logs
- Governance decks
- Budget and resource plans
- Stakeholder communication plans
