Delivery Lead, Banking Digital Transformation (Dubai)
Deeplight AI
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Job summary
Deeplight AI is seeking a high-impact Delivery Lead to own execution across a major digital banking portfolio in Dubai. You will be the single accountability for portfolio health, milestones, and risk recovery, with focus on Retail Banking Group modernizations, mobile apps, and digital customer journeys.
You will collaborate with Architecture, AI/Data, and Platform leads to present a unified delivery position to the Executive Sponsor, while guiding SteerCos and vendor performance to meet strict
Qualifications
- 10+ years of technology delivery experience managing complex, multi-stream portfolios.
- Experience delivering technology programs in Retail Banking (RBG).
- Hands-on delivery across mobile apps, digital onboarding, and online banking.
- Exceptional verbal, written, and visual communication with C-suite audiences.
- Proven ability to influence, challenge, and drive accountability at executive level.
- Experience managing vendor SLAs, SoWs, burn rates, and change requests.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain the master portfolio plan, including timelines, budgets, milestones, and dependencies.
- Serve as the exclusive sponsor escalation and present recovery options to the Executive Sponsor.
- Review and challenge SteerCos; ensure quality and consistency of status papers.
- Identify and recover from slippage; agree formal recovery plans with teams and vendors.
- Monitor financials and vendor performance against contracted scope and terms.
- Coordinate architecture, AI/Data, and Platform leads to present a united delivery view.
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Job description
Deeplight AI is seeking a high-impact Delivery Lead to own execution across a major digital banking portfolio in Dubai. You will be the single accountability for portfolio health, milestones, and risk recovery, with focus on Retail Banking Group modernizations, mobile apps, and digital customer journeys.
You will collaborate with Architecture, AI/Data, and Platform leads to present a unified delivery position to the Executive Sponsor, while guiding SteerCos and vendor performance to meet strict
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