Project Management Officer

Synechron; Dubai; On-site; AED 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Synechron is seeking an experienced PMO Lead / Governance Lead to support a major Corporate Credit Origination transformation within Corporate Banking. You will govern multi‑stream, multi‑vendor delivery, manage planning and reporting, and provide executive oversight across banking platforms.

The role covers governance, RAID, change control, financial governance, and production readiness, with collaboration across Corporate Banking, Credit, Risk, Operations, Technology, and Compliance.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of banking technology delivery experience.
• Minimum 3 years leading PMO, programme governance, project controls, or transformation governance.
• Experience leading a PMO for a major banking-platform implementation.
• Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Engineering, Business, Finance, or a related discipline.
• PMI, PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent certification preferred.
• Ability to challenge senior stakeholders and drive accountability.

Responsibilities

• Lead the PMO and governance function for a major corporate credit or lending-platform transformation.
• Establish governance structures, forums, decision rights, reporting standards, and delivery controls.
• Coordinate working groups, programme forums, Steering Committees, and assurance meetings.
• Ensure governance discipline across all programme workstreams.
• Define and maintain programme standards, templates, processes, and reporting calendars.
• Track milestones, dependencies, risks, and actions; provide delivery insight to senior management.
• Govern data migration, testing, cutover, readiness, and production stabilization.

Skills

Banking tech delivery

PMO governance

Executive reporting

Vendor governance

Change control

Integrated planning

Dependency management

Stakeholder challenge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Engineering, Business, Finance, or related

PMP/PRINCE2 or equivalent certification

Job description

We are looking for an experienced PMO Lead / Governance Lead to support a major Corporate Credit Origination transformation within Corporate Banking.

The role will provide governance, planning, delivery control, reporting, assurance, and executive oversight across a complex banking-platform implementation. The successful candidate will work across Corporate Banking, Credit, Risk, Operations, Technology, Architecture, Information Security, Data, Finance, Compliance, Legal, Procurement, Service Management, and Internal Audit.

The role requires strong experience governing multi-stream, multi-vendor banking transformations, with exposure to corporate credit, lending, credit workflows, data migration, testing, cutover, operational readiness, and production stabilization.

Key Responsibilities:

PMO and Governance Leadership

• Lead the PMO and governance function for a major corporate credit or lending-platform transformation.
• Establish and maintain governance structures, forums, decision rights, reporting standards, and delivery controls.
• Coordinate working groups, programme forums, Steering Committees, executive reviews, and assurance meetings.
• Ensure governance discipline across all programme workstreams.
• Define and maintain programme standards, templates, processes, and reporting calendars.
• Challenge delivery teams and senior stakeholders where plans, risks, dependencies, or evidence are incomplete.

Integrated Planning and Delivery Control

• Develop and maintain the integrated programme plan.
• Track milestones, deliverables, critical path activities, dependencies, assumptions, and interlocks.
• Coordinate plans across Business, Credit, Risk, Operations, Technology, Architecture, Data, Security, Finance, vendors, and implementation partners.
• Monitor delivery progress against scope, timeline, budget, quality, and benefits.
• Identify slippage, bottlenecks, and cross-workstream impacts.
• Drive owners to complete actions and deliverables on time.
• Provide accurate delivery insight to senior management.

RAID and Change Management

• Own and maintain programme RAID logs.
• Track risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, decisions, and actions.
• Define escalation routes and ensure timely resolution.
• Manage programme-level change requests and assess impacts on scope, cost, schedule, resources, risk, and benefits.
• Maintain decision logs and ensure approved decisions are implemented.
• Monitor risk exposure and residual risk.

Financial and Vendor Governance

• Govern multi-million-budget programme financials.
• Track funding, forecast, actuals, variances, purchase orders, and vendor spend.
• Coordinate with Finance and Procurement.
• Track vendor milestones, deliverables, resource commitments, risks, and contractual obligations.
• Monitor delivery across multiple technology vendors and implementation partners.
• Escalate vendor performance concerns and delivery risks.
• Support assurance and commercial governance activities.

Migration, Testing, Cutover, and Readiness

• Govern data-migration planning, execution, reconciliation, and sign-off.
• Coordinate SIT, UAT, regression testing, defect management, and business acceptance.
• Track test readiness, environments, test data, execution progress, defects, and exit criteria.
• Govern cutover planning, rehearsal, go/no-go readiness, rollback planning, and implementation dependencies.
• Coordinate operational readiness, training, support-model preparation, service transition, and production handover.
• Track post-go-live stabilization, hypercare, incidents, defects, and outstanding actions.

Corporate Credit Domain Coordination

• Support governance across the corporate credit lifecycle.
• Understand:Credit origination.
• Approval controls.
• Delegated approval authorities.
• Facilities and limits.
• Collateral and security.
• Credit documentation.
• Conditions and covenants.
• Operational controls.
• Coordinate stakeholders across Corporate Banking, Credit, Risk, Operations, and Technology.
• Ensure programme governance protects credit controls, regulatory requirements, operational readiness, and production stability.

Executive Reporting and Insight

• Prepare executive-level status reports, dashboards, governance packs, and Steering Committee presentations.
• Convert detailed delivery data into clear executive insight.
• Report programme health across:Scope.
• Schedule.
• Budget.
• Risks.
• Issues.
• Dependencies.
• Testing.
• Readiness.
• Benefits.
• Vendor performance.
• Present recommendations, decisions required, and escalation items to senior stakeholders.
• Communicate complex delivery matters clearly and concisely.

Required Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of banking technology delivery experience.
• Minimum 3 years leading PMO, programme governance, project controls, or transformation governance.
• Proven experience leading a PMO for a major banking-platform implementation.
• Corporate credit, corporate lending, loan origination, credit workflow, or related banking-platform experience preferred.
• Strong experience with:Integrated planning.
• Dependencies.
• RAID.
• Change control.
• Financial governance.
• Vendor governance.
• Assurance.
• Executive reporting.
• Experience governing multi-million-budget, multi-stream, and multi-vendor delivery.
• Experience involving migration, testing, cutover, production readiness, and stabilization.
• Strong understanding of corporate credit lifecycle, approval controls, facilities, limits, collateral, and documentation.
• Ability to challenge senior stakeholders and drive accountability.
• Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Engineering, Business, Finance, or a related discipline.
• PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent certification preferred.