For 1 of our clients we are looking for a Senior Project Manager with experience in Identity and Access management. Responsibilities: In relation to the management aspects: Running the epic on a day-to-day basis on behalf of the Sponsorship Committee:
Monitor the epic, from definition phase to closure phase, including managing all internal and external dependencies, milestones, and impacts.
Ensure the epics produce the required deliverables/artifacts with the required quality and within agreed time and budget and with the respect of the methodology framework.
Direct, motivate, and challenge the project team, i.e. all contributing to a successful delivery, so that epic scope and expectations are met.
Manage the risks and issues, including the collection, evaluation, and planning of corrective and/or preventive actions, and monitoring and escalating risks and issues to the Sponsorship Committee.
Perform change control, ensuring there are no unapproved scope deviations. Following up any changes (scope, budget increase, and other changes) in agreement with the Sponsor.
Prepare for and report to the Sponsorship Committee through Weekly Status Reports.
In relation to the qualitative aspects:
Producing the Project Quality Plan (PQP), documenting the approach to quality management: governance structure, management process and assigned responsibilities for achieving the required quality levels.
In relation to the planning:
Creating plans - and if necessary exception plans - together with the involved teams, and reaching agreement on these plans, including the plans’ success criteria, with the Sponsorship Committee.
Initiating the different demands via for example the QBR & QP process or other processes if needed.
Planning from definition to closure, included managing all internal and external dependencies, milestones, an impact.
In relation to the operationalization:
With the help of the ERO (Business Analyst) ensure the needed Operationalisation aspects are foreseen and fully embedded in the delivery
In relation to the post-implementation stage:
Preparing the Post-Implementation Report for validation by the Sponsor, including any Lessons Learned.
In relation to the soft skill needed:
Good communication and interpersonal skills
Problem solving abilities
Punctual and meticulous
Critical thinker
Strong team and collaboration focus
High work ethic and adaptable
Ability to work autonomously
Your profile:
You already have 8+ years of proven Project Management experience in a large Financial Services organisation and 3+ years in delivering “data & reporting” related projects
Experience of being an Agile “Scrum Master” as you will play this role at times as the epic will not have a dedicated scrum master – guidance and support for the particular ways of working in our company will be provided via an agile coach.
The scope of work you have managed includes development of associated business processes, procedures, controls and KPIs.
You are experienced in managing end to end several projects in parallel with size varying from 300 to 3,000 man-days.
You have demonstrated through your career strong leadership skills with the ability as well to adapt your style according to the context and the different project stakeholders.
These projects were managed according to at least one of the industry standard methodologies like Waterfall, PMI or Prince2, and have experience of agile delivery methods
Your responsibilities encompassed the different aspects of these ones (Planning, Budgets, Risks & Issues, Resources management ). Previous experience of outsourced projects management is a plus.
You naturally have strong negotiation and conflict management skills and you are able to influence different levels of management towards your projects targets.
You are fluent in English and have excellent communication skills (listening, writing, and presenting) at all levels, from staff members to senior management level.
You have a natural affinity with the technical domains.
You are familiar with a range of Information Security technologies, infrastructure, processes and services in domains especially Identity & Access Management. A relevant security qualification is a plus (e.g. CISSP)
Must have extensive experience in collaborating with senior CISO stakeholders, Data Engineers, Data Architects, Solution Architects, IT Developers & Business Analysts
Well versed with Extract Transform & Load pipelines, dashboarding tools (especially PowerBI),workflow tools (PowerAutomate) & SQL Server.
Experience with Azure Data Factory/Fabric or other cloud based Data services
Ideally a Bachelors or Masters Degree in IT or subject with strong numerical / computational exposure (e.g. Engineering).
Knowledge of machine learning and automation tools is a plus