Senior IT Project Manager - Retail Banking Channels and Regulatory Projects

DiceTek UAE; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Dicetek LLC in Dubai seeks a Senior IT Project Manager to lead end-to-end technology project delivery within a banking environment. The role requires 8-10 years of relevant experience with emphasis on retail banking channels and regulatory initiatives.

On-site position based in Dubai, UAE, reporting to senior stakeholders and coordinating with Business, Technology, Security, Risk and Compliance teams to ensure governance and regulatory adherence.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8-10 years of IT project management experience.
• Experience delivering end-to-end banking technology projects.
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements and governance in banking.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end IT project delivery in a banking environment.
• Develop and maintain project plans, milestones and budgets.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across business and technology.
• Monitor risk, issues, dependencies and scope changes.
• Ensure governance and regulatory compliance throughout delivery.

Skills

IT Project Management

Budget management

Stakeholder coordination

Risk management

Vendor management

Retail banking channels

Regulatory projects

Job description

Senior IT Project Manager - Retail Banking Channels and Regulatory Projects Job Snapshot - Role: Senior IT Project Manager - Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Industry: Banking - Function: IT Project Management - Experience: Minimum 8-10 years - Job Type: Full Time - Work Arrangement: On-site

Position Overview

Dicetek LLC is seeking an experienced Senior IT Project Manager to lead end-to-end technology project delivery within a banking environment in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The position requires a minimum of 8-10 years of relevant experience, with proven expertise in IT project planning, budget management, stakeholder coordination, project governance and complete project lifecycle management. The successful candidate will oversee projects from initiation and planning through implementation, go-live, stabilization and closure. Responsibilities include managing project schedules, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, financial performance, vendor deliverables and governance requirements. The role involves close coordination with Business, Technology, Information Security, Risk, Compliance, Operations and other stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered in accordance with the bank 's established governance, technology, security and regulatory requirements. Strong preference will be given to candidates with experience delivering technology projects involving retail banking channels and regulatory initiatives. Experience in these areas will be particularly valuable when coordinating complex banking technology implementations and compliance-driven project requirements.

Job Details

Country: United Arab Emirates
City: Dubai
Industry: Banking
Function: IT Project Management
Salary: Not disclosed
Gender: No Preference
Candidate Nationality: Not specified
Job Type: Full Time
Work Arrangement: On-site

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-End IT Project Delivery
• Coordinate project activities to ensure alignment with approved objectives, scope and delivery requirements.
• Oversee the execution of project deliverables across relevant business and technology teams.
• Monitor project progress against established schedules and milestones.
• Identify delivery challenges and coordinate appropriate corrective actions.
• Support successful implementation and transition of technology solutions into operational environments.
• Ensure project closure activities are completed in accordance with established governance requirements.
• Project Planning and Scheduling
• Develop and maintain comprehensive IT project plans.
• Define project milestones, schedules, deliverables and resource requirements.
• Coordinate project planning activities with relevant stakeholders.
• Track progress against agreed timelines and delivery commitments.
• Maintain visibility of project dependencies and critical activities.
• Update project plans to reflect approved changes and delivery developments.
• Communicate schedule impacts and required actions to relevant teams.
• Support effective resource planning throughout the project lifecycle.
• Project Budget and Financial Management
• Manage project budgets and financial performance.
• Monitor capital expenditure (CAPEX) and operating expenditure (OPEX).
• Maintain project financial forecasts and expenditure records.
• Track actual spending against approved budgets.
• Monitor financial commitments and relevant cost obligations.
• Identify and analyse budget variances.
• Communicate financial risks and deviations to appropriate stakeholders.
• Support financial planning and reporting throughout project delivery.
• Coordinate corrective actions where financial performance differs from approved plans.
• Risk, Issue and Dependency Management
• Identify, document and monitor project risks.
• Maintain visibility of project issues and dependencies.
• Track outstanding actions and required resolutions.
• Coordinate risk mitigation and issue resolution with relevant stakeholders.
• Escalate critical issues and delivery concerns in a timely manner.
• Monitor the impact of risks and dependencies on project milestones.
• Maintain appropriate records of project risks, issues and actions.
• Support timely decision-making to minimize disruption to project delivery.
• Change Request Management
• Track project change requests throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Coordinate the assessment of proposed changes with relevant stakeholders.
• Evaluate the implications of changes for project scope, schedule, resources and budget.
• Support required review and approval processes.
• Update relevant project documentation following approved changes.
• Communicate change impacts to affected business and technology teams.
• Maintain appropriate visibility of outstanding and approved change requests.
• Stakeholder Management and Cross-Functional Coordination
• Coordinate project activities across Business and Technology teams.
• Work closely with Information Security, Risk, Compliance and Operations stakeholders.
• Facilitate effective communication between project participants.
• Align relevant teams on project milestones, deliverables and dependencies.
• Coordinate discussions to address delivery challenges and outstanding decisions.
• Ensure stakeholders receive appropriate information regarding project progress.
• Support timely escalation and resolution of cross-functional issues.
• Maintain effective working relationships throughout project execution.
• Project Governance and Compliance
• Ensure projects follow the bank 's established project governance requirements.
• Coordinate compliance with applicable technology and information security standards.
• Support adherence to relevant risk management and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain required governance documentation and approval records.
• Coordinate project reviews and governance checkpoints.
• Track outstanding governance actions and required approvals.
• Identify compliance-related project concerns and coordinate their resolution.
• Ensure appropriate governance requirements are addressed before implementation and closure.
• Vendor and Implementation Partner Management
• Coordinate project activities with external vendors and implementation partners.
• Track vendor deliverables against agreed project requirements.
• Monitor vendor timelines and implementation commitments.
• Maintain visibility of relevant contractual obligations.
• Identify vendor-related delays, risks and dependencies.
• Coordinate resolution of delivery issues involving external partners.
• Communicate vendor performance and outstanding commitments to relevant stakeholders.
• Support alignment between vendor activities and internal project schedules.
• Project Monitoring and Management Reporting
• Prepare regular project status reports for management.
• Maintain Red, Amber and Green (RAG) project status reporting.
• Track key milestones, deliverables and delivery progress.
• Report project risks, issues and dependencies.
• Develop and communicate path-to-green recovery actions for projects requiring corrective measures.
• Highlight schedule, budget and resource concerns.
• Present relevant project updates to management and governance stakeholders.
• Ensure reporting accurately reflects project status and outstanding actions.
• Support management decision-making through clear and timely project information.
• Testing and Implementation Coordination
• Coordinate project testing activities with relevant business and technology teams.
• Support alignment of testing schedules with project implementation milestones.
• Track testing-related dependencies and outstanding issues.
• Coordinate implementation readiness assessments.
• Work with relevant stakeholders to address deployment prerequisites.
• Support planning and coordination of production deployment activities.
• Monitor implementation-related risks and required approvals.
• Facilitate communication between testing, development, operations and project stakeholders.
• Go-Live and Post-Implementation Stabilization
• Coordinate project go-live activities with relevant implementation teams.
• Monitor readiness against agreed deployment requirements.
• Track outstanding implementation issues and dependencies.
• Support coordination of post-go-live stabilization activities.
• Work with operational and technical stakeholders to address implementation concerns.
• Monitor completion of relevant stabilization actions.
• Coordinate the transition of project deliverables to appropriate operational teams.
• Ensure required post-implementation documentation and handover activities are completed.
• Project Documentation and Closure
• Maintain comprehensive project documentation throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Ensure project plans, status reports, risk records and relevant approvals are properly maintained.
• Coordinate required governance and implementation documentation.
• Support formal project handover to relevant business and operational teams.
• Track completion of outstanding closure activities.
• Ensure appropriate project closure approvals are obtained.
• Maintain records of final deliverables and relevant project commitments.
• Complete project closure in accordance with established organizational requirements.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum 8-10 years of relevant professional experience in IT project management and delivery.
• Proven experience managing end-to-end IT projects.
• Strong expertise in project initiation, planning, implementation, go-live, stabilization and closure.
• Experience developing and maintaining project plans, milestones, schedules and deliverables.
• Strong project budget management capabilities.
• Experience managing CAPEX and OPEX budgets.
• Ability to maintain financial forecasts and track actual spending, commitments and variances.
• Experience managing project risks, issues, dependencies and action items.
• Knowledge of project change request management.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional coordination experience.
• Experience working with business, technology, information security, risk, compliance and operations teams.
• Practical understanding of project governance and approval processes.
• Ability to manage technology projects within applicable security, risk and regulatory requirements.
• Experience coordinating vendors and implementation partners.
• Ability to track contractual commitments and external delivery dependencies.
• Experience preparing project status reports and management presentations.
• Knowledge of RAG reporting and project recovery action tracking.
• Experience coordinating testing, implementation readiness and production deployment.
• Ability to manage post-go-live stabilization and project handover.
• Strong project documentation and closure management capabilities.

Required Technical and Functional Skills

• IT Project Management - End-to-end IT project delivery.
• Project initiation and planning.
• Project execution and monitoring.
• Project implementation.
• Go-live coordination.
• Post-implementation stabilization.
• Project closure.
• Project lifecycle management.
• Project Planning and Delivery Controls - Project plans.
• Milestone management.
• Schedule management.
• Deliverable tracking.
• Resource planning.
• Project dependencies.
• Delivery commitments.
• Change request management.
• Financial and Budget Management - Project budget management.
• Capital expenditure (CAPEX).
• Operating expenditure (OPEX).
• Financial forecasting.
• Actual expenditure tracking.
• Financial commitment monitoring.
• Budget variance analysis.
• Project financial reporting.
• Risk and Governance Management - Project risk management.
• Issue tracking and resolution.
• Dependency management.
• Action tracking.
• Project governance.
• Governance approvals.
• Technology governance.
• Information security requirements.
• Risk and compliance coordination.
• Regulatory project requirements.
• Stakeholder and Vendor Management - Business stakeholder coordination.
• Technology stakeholder management.
• Information Security coordination.
• Risk and Compliance coordination.
• Operations coordination.
• Vendor management.
• Implementation partner coordination.
• Contractual commitment tracking.
• Cross-functional communication.
• Project Reporting and Monitoring - Project status reporting.
• RAG status reporting.
• Milestone tracking.
• Risk and issue reporting.
• Dependency reporting.
• Path-to-green action planning.
• Management presentations.
• Project performance monitoring.
• Testing and Implementation Management - Testing coordination.
• Implementation readiness.
• Production deployment coordination.
• Go-live planning.
• Post-go-live stabilization.
• Operational handover.
• Project documentation.
• Formal project closure.

Preferred Domain Experience

• Retail Banking Channels - Experience delivering IT projects involving retail banking channels.
• Understanding of technology delivery requirements within retail banking environments.
• Experience coordinating business and technology stakeholders on retail banking channel initiatives.
• Regulatory Projects - Experience managing banking regulatory technology projects.
• Familiarity with regulatory-driven project requirements.
• Experience coordinating technology delivery involving Risk, Compliance and other relevant banking stakeholders.
• Understanding of project governance requirements associated with regulatory initiatives.

Professional Competencies

• Strong leadership and project coordination capabilities.
• Excellent stakeholder management and interpersonal communication.
• Effective project planning and organizational skills.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple project activities and competing priorities.
• Sound judgment in identifying and escalating delivery risks.
• Strong financial awareness and budget management discipline.
• Ability to coordinate cross-functional business and technology teams.
• Effective vendor and implementation partner management.
• Strong attention to project governance, documentation and compliance.
• Ability to communicate project status clearly to management.
• Proactive approach to resolving project issues and delivery challenges.
• Ability to maintain delivery focus throughout complex project lifecycles.
• Strong accountability for project milestones and agreed deliverables.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will be a Senior IT Project Manager with a minimum of 8-10 years of experience delivering complex technology projects from initiation through implementation, stabilization and closure. The role requires strong capabilities in project planning, budget management, stakeholder coordination, risk and issue management, project governance, vendor management and management reporting. Candidates should demonstrate practical experience managing CAPEX/OPEX budgets, coordinating cross-functional banking technology stakeholders, tracking delivery dependencies and overseeing testing, go-live and operational handover activities. Strong preference will be given to professionals with experience in retail banking channels and regulatory projects, supported by a proven ability to manage end-to-end IT project delivery within a structured banking environment.