Fintech Project Manager: Bank Implementation Lead

Burjline Builders; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Burjline Builders is seeking a project manager to drive delivery across client implementations and engineering sprints for a regulated B2B fintech platform serving financial institutions in the MENA region and beyond.

You will own end-to-end deployments, manage plans, risks, UAT, and go-live across cloud and on‑prem environments, coordinating with engineering, product, and client teams to ensure dependable delivery.

Qualifications

• 3–4 years managing software delivery projects, ideally client-facing in banking.
• Experience with Agile delivery: sprints, backlogs, estimation, DoR/DoD.
• Experience running UAT with enterprise clients and sign-off.
• Proficiency with ClickUp or Jira dashboards and reporting.
• Strong risk management and scope control.
• Technical literacy to discuss APIs, environments, releases with engineers.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, business, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Plan and run client implementation projects end to end from kickoff to hypercare.
• Own project plans, timelines, and risk registers; adapt to scope changes.
• Track delivery in ClickUp and report progress to leadership and client stakeholders.
• Support sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives with the product owner; protect team capacity.
• Coordinate UAT cycles with bank clients; collect feedback, drive bug resolution, sign-off gates.
• Manage dependencies across parallel deployments (cloud and on-premises); escalate blockers early.
• Collaborate with engineering on release planning, change control, and rollback readiness for regulated clients.
• Maintain project documentation and handover materials.

Skills

Project management

Agile delivery

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Client-facing

UAT coordination

Communication

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree (CS / Business / related)

Tools

ClickUp

Jira

Job description

Burjline Builders is seeking a project manager to drive delivery across client implementations and engineering sprints for a regulated B2B fintech platform serving financial institutions in the MENA region and beyond.

You will own end-to-end deployments, manage plans, risks, UAT, and go-live across cloud and on‑prem environments, coordinating with engineering, product, and client teams to ensure dependable delivery.