Senior Project Manager
Posted 1 day 21 hours ago by Icon Solutions Ltd
The Icon Payments Framework (IPF) provides institutions with faster and more cost-effective access to instant payments through an advanced and highly flexible payments specific platform which seamlessly integrates with core and back-office banking applications.
A Senior Project Manager is required to join our growing delivery team to work alongside the Delivery Director. The successful candidate must have proven experience of end-to-end management of technical onsite engagements, senior stakeholder management and working closely with an Agile feature-based product delivery teams to integrate products into client sites. Having worked in a product environment would also be an advantage
As we work with senior stakeholders and technicians, on mission critical programs of work, the ability to engage positively on both a management and technical level, report succinctly and accurately are essential. Project dependent, travel will be required across the UK and Europe.
About you- Full life-cycle project management experience within acommercial B2B context.
- Financial Services domain knowledge, preferably in the real timepayments space either within a bank or central infrastructure.
- Experienced in contract review and associated governance.
- Prior experience implementing a product-based solution.
- Willing to travel across the UK and Europe, dependent on projectrequirement.
- Highly experienced in Agile (i.e., scrum, Kanban) feature-basedProduct delivery and release management, with the ability to guide clientresources in ways of working where needed.
- High level of proficiency in Jira/confluence - ability toeffectively monitor, manage and report on internal and client project teamsprogress and velocity
- Experience in agile / waterfall blended approaches often foundat tier 1 financial institutions.
- Project delivery experience using multiple project resources ofin-house colleagues, clients and 3rd party partner resources developing acollaborative delivery ethic.
- Senior stakeholder management and client engagement with a focuson exceptional client satisfaction.
- Experience working with disparately located teams (both onshore,offshore and across time zones) within multi-vendor scenarios.
- Strong Leadership and Project experience using multiple usingresources from in- house, client and 3rd party partner teams, developing acollaborative delivery ethic
- Whilst not essential, any bi-lingual capabilities, particularlyacross European countries would be advantageous
- Manage all aspects of the icon project delivery includingplanning, resourcing, milestone tracking, risk, issue, financial and commercialmanagement, reporting and customer satisfaction.
- Provide pragmatic project management guidance to clients andcolleagues.
- Act as interface between Icon technology team, client teams andthird-party vendors.
- Build effective working relationships with both delivery andbusiness development organisations within Icon with the objective of findingopportunities to add value to the end client.
- Ability to be a part of, and influence future growth of thedelivery team at Icon.
- The collaboration with a customer to help achieve their businessgoals and implement long-term solutions.
Icon Solutions is a fintech company that has been designing and implementing state-of-the-art payments solutions since 2009.
Our core product - the Icon Payments Framework (IPF)- is an internationally proven payments development framework that is trusted by Tier 1 banks across the globe such as Citi, NatWest, UBS and BNP Paribas.
This combines with an international team of payments, architecture, data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) experts, who help clients navigate every step of their transformation journey.