Pega Decisioning - Project Manager

Virtusa; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Virtusa Corporation in Dubai seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead end-to-end Pega-based IT application development projects. You will plan, estimate, schedule, and manage resources while engaging stakeholders and ensuring governance across delivery teams.

The role requires extensive experience in Pega projects, strong leadership, and a solid understanding of SDLC, release management, and production support. UAE-based on-site work with cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Proven ownership of end-to-end Pega project delivery.
• Experience with project planning, estimation, scheduling, budgeting and resource management.
• Excellent stakeholder management and client communication skills.
• Hands-on Agile/Scrum and delivery governance experience.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end Pega project delivery, from initiation through deployment.
• Manage schedules, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies and change requests.
• Coordinate architecture, development, QA, infrastructure and business teams.

Skills

End-to-end PM

Pega projects

Planning & budgeting

Stakeholder mgmt

Agile/Scrum

SDLC & release

Risks & dependencies

Team coordination

PM tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Jira

Confluence

MS Project

Job description

Job Requirements

• Mandatory Skills


• Proven experience managing end-to-end IT application development and delivery projects.


• Experience with Pega-based projects, including implementation, enhancement, integration, or platform migration.


• Strong project planning, estimation, scheduling, budgeting, and resource management skills.


• Excellent stakeholder management, client communication, and escalation management capabilities.


• Hands-on experience with Agile/Scrum and project delivery governance.


• Strong understanding of SDLC, release management, testing, deployment, and production support.


• Experience managing risks, issues, dependencies, change requests, and project documentation.


• Ability to coordinate technical teams and translate business objectives into delivery plans.


• Experience with project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, or equivalent.

Preferred Skills

• Banking and financial services domain experience.


• Experience with Pega Customer Service, Pega Customer Decision Hub, BPM, or workflow automation projects.


• Understanding of Pega architecture, case management, integrations, and application development.


• Experience managing large, distributed, multi-vendor, or geographically dispersed teams.


• Familiarity with CI/CD, DevOps, cloud platforms, and enterprise integration.


• PMP, PRINCE2, or Agile/Scrum certification.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.


• 10-15+ years of overall IT experience, including significant project management and delivery leadership experience.


• Demonstrated success in delivering complex enterprise technology projects.


• Strong leadership, analytical, communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.

Key Screening Criteria

• Proven ownership of end-to-end Pega project delivery.


• Experience managing project schedules, budgets, resources, risks, and client stakeholders.


• Strong Agile delivery and governance experience.


• Ability to coordinate Pega architecture, development, QA, infrastructure, and business teams.


• Banking or financial services experience preferred\".

Work Experience

• 7-10Years