Senior Program Manager

Salt Digital Recruitment; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt Digital Recruitment is seeking a seasoned Program Manager to lead the transformation of a bank's Wealth Management platforms into a modern, digital-first ecosystem. This role involves driving complex programs, aligning with strategic objectives, and delivering solutions in regulated environments.

The ideal candidate will have over 15 years of experience in banking or financial services, with strong expertise in wealth management transformation, effective stakeholder engagement, and the ability to drive large-scale initiatives.

Qualifications

• 15+ years' experience delivering complex enterprise programmes within banking or financial services.
• Demonstrated experience leading Wealth Management platform transformation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of wealth advisory, portfolio management, client servicing and digital wealth ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex transformation programmes across Wealth Management.
• Own the full programme lifecycle from mobilisation to execution.
• Establish and maintain robust governance frameworks across multiple workstreams.

Skills

Programme leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Financial governance

Agile methodologies

Risk management

Tools

MS Project

Jira

Job description

Wealth Management Transformation | Digital Banking | Digital TransformationAn opportunity for a seasoned Program Manager to lead the end-to-end transformation of a bank's Wealth Management platforms into a modern, digital-first ecosystem. This role sits at enterprise level and is responsible for driving complex, multi-stream programs that modernise legacy wealth systems into scalable, microservices-enabled platforms aligned with digital product strategies. The successful candidate will combine in-depth financial services expertise with strong governance leadership, effective executive stakeholder engagement, and the ability to deliver large-scale solutions within regulated environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead complex transformation programmes across Wealth Management, ensuring alignment to strategic objectives and successful delivery within agreed timelines and budgets.
• Own the full programme lifecycle, from mobilisation and planning through to execution and benefits realisation.
• Drive modernisation of legacy wealth platforms into integrated, digital product environments.
• Establish and maintain robust governance frameworks across multiple workstreams.
• Provide clear executive-level reporting on progress, risks, financials, and dependencies.
• Partner closely with senior business, technology, risk and operations stakeholders to ensure alignment and decision-making velocity.
• Oversee cross-functional teams operating across product, engineering, architecture and business domains.
• Proactively manage risk, interdependencies and change impacts across the programme landscape.
• Ensure effective financial oversight, budget control and resource planning.
• Support the integration of microservices architecture, advanced analytics capabilities and agile delivery models within the target-state platform.

Required Experience

• 15+ years' experience delivering complex enterprise programmes within banking or financial services.
• Demonstrated experience leading Wealth Management platform transformation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of wealth advisory, portfolio management, client servicing and digital wealth ecosystems.
• Experience operating within regulated banking environments.
• Proven ability to manage senior stakeholders and large, distributed delivery teams.
• Strong commercial acumen and financial governance capability.
• Experience delivering within agile and hybrid delivery models at scale.
• Exposure to modern architecture patterns, including microservices and analytics-driven platforms.

Tools & Frameworks

• Enterprise planning tools (e.g. MS Project, Gantt frameworks)
• Jira and agile tracking platforms
• Structured PMO governance and reporting standards

Profile

• Strategic programme leader with strong execution discipline
• Executive communicator with high credibility
• Structured, governance-driven and commercially aware
• Comfortable leading large, multi-domain transformation environments
• Calm and decisive within complex stakeholder landscapes

Salt is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.