Senior Project Manager

Role Overview: As a Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for developing release implementation strategies, defining release criteria, managing release orchestration, and ensuring readiness quality gates across different phases. You will also drive detailed implementation plans for various components and ensure compliance with enterprise change management practices. Key Responsibilities: - Develop release implementation strategies and risk management strategies - Define release implementation GO / NO GO criteria and critical stage Entry / Exit criteria - Act as the primary escalation point for ecosystem implementation leads to resolve conflicts - Develop release SOLPAC including technical implementation plans and contingency plans - Manage and ensure release and service readiness quality gates - Ensure adherence to enterprise change management and release management practices - Ensure adherence to Service ITSM integrations during release cut-over - Drive end-to-end detailed implementation plans for all release scope componentry - Ensure Service Transition operational, risk, and security certifications and key controls compliance Qualifications Required: - 7+ years of experience in a technology environment, preferably in a large financial institution using PaaS Platform as a Service technologies - 5+ years of experience managing projects and delivering major business critical programs through the full systems life cycle - 3+ years of experience in Service Transition disciplines and techniques - 3+ years of experience in delivering product integration projects within the financial services sector - Qualifications in Service Transition and IT Governance methodology and standards (ITIL v3, COBIT) - Tertiary level qualifications in Computer Science or relevant industry recognized certification - PMP or equivalent accreditation,