Project Manager

Position:

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of banking/fintech projects: from initiation, planning, execution, deployment, to post-go-live support.
  
• Act as the primary interface between the bank-client, internal product/engineering teams, and other stakeholders.
  
• Drive project governance: schedule, budget, scope, risk & issue tracking, change management, quality assurance, and compliance.
  
• Ensure alignment of delivery with product architecture, regulatory requirements, banking domain best practices.
  
• Manage resource planning (onshore/offshore), coordinate multiple streams/sub-projects where applicable.
  
• Monitor project health and metrics, produce progress status reports, highlight escalations and drive corrective actions.
  
• Facilitate meetings with senior stakeholders, present dashboards, ensure clear communication of project status and deliverables.
  
• Identify and implement process improvements, automation opportunities, and operational efficiencies in delivery.
  
• Ensure handover to operations/support teams, manage transitional activities and client-acceptance sign-off.
  

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelors degree in Engineering / Computer Science / Information Technology / Business (or equivalent).
  
• 9 to 15 years of total work experience, with at least 5+ years in project management role.
  
• Strong domain experience in banking / financial services (e.g., core banking, transaction banking, payments, trade, cash/liquidity).
  
• Proven track record of managing complex client implementationspreferably for banks or financial institutions.
  
• Experience working in product-based fintech environments (not just pure IT services) is highly desirable.
  
• Solid knowledge of SDLC (Waterfall, Agile/Scrum) and hands-on experience with project management tools and methodologies.
  
• Excellent stakeholder management, team leadership, communication (verbal & written) skills.
  
• Ability to manage budgets, timelines, scope, and to drive delivery under pressure.
  
• Risk, issue and change management experience.
  
• Familiarity with compliance/regulatory aspects relevant to banking projects (e.g., data security, audit trails).
  
• Willingness to work from the Siruseri/Chennai office location as required.
  

Preferred / Advantageous Skills

• Formal certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, Agile Certified Practitioner (ScrumMaster / AgilePM).
  
• Experience in cloud-native, API-led architectures, microservices, digital transformation initiatives.
  
• Prior exposure to global delivery environments, offshore teams, multi-geography coordination.
  
• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset.
  
• Prior experience with vendor/third-party coordination and product implementation rather than just services.