Senior Risk Solution Delivery Manager

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank PJSC; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent financial institution in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Risk Solution Delivery Manager to oversee risk management projects. The successful candidate will coordinate with cross-functional teams, ensuring projects meet specified requirements within budget and schedule. This role requires 8+ years of banking experience with strong project management skills. Effective communication and stakeholder management are crucial for success in this position. The bank offers a competitive package and opportunities for growth in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Banking Domain.
• Experience in project management and risk management.
• Ability to coordinate with teams and manage vendor relationships.

Responsibilities

• Plan, organize, and direct project completion on time and budget.
• Work with teams to understand and document project requirements.
• Manage multiple initiatives and track projects to closure.

Skills

Banking Domain experience

Project Management

Cross-functional team coordination

Risk Management

Stakeholder management

Job description

Role: Senior Risk Solution Delivery Manager

Location: Abu Dhabi

Role Purpose:

• Responsible for planning, organizing, and directing the completion of specific projects for an organization while ensuring these projects are on time, on budget, and within scope.
• Work with cross-functional teams to develop and document a common understanding of project requirements.
• Manage Projects and major tasks rollout in Risk Management sector, coordinate with vendors, business users and other stakeholders to articulate and document business requirements, change requests, Data Gap Resolution Strategy and Data Feeder module design and development required for Risk management projects from various banking source systems.
• Manage projects within agreed governance structures and processes, to ensure consistency of approach and efficient use of resources.
• Defining the projects KPIs and measuring them throughout the project lifecycle.
• Determine how changing business needs will affect existing systems.
• Ability to work directly with business units to develop user requirements and report specifications.
• Articulate and document business requirements for projects, change requests etc.
• Manage vendor service level and quality of development.
• Coordination between project and business teams during the execution of projects and tasks.
• Provide business with required technical support, assessments, and reports.
• Propose technical recommendations and improvements.
• Mitigate risks and close audit points, if any, on the applications and processes.
• Manage multiple initiatives and track projects/BAU requests/ CRs to closure.
• Closely monitor incident tickets and problem tickets and close them before the breach of SLA.
• Understand the latest technology trends and provide improvement suggestions in the products.
• Review vendor proposal and provide feedback on the same to ensure completeness of scope and quality.
• Provide periodic reports and monthly updates on the ongoing initiatives to business and PMO.
• Follow up with service teams/vendors for support issues and respond quickly to service tickets in a timely manner.
• Facilitate and UAT of projects, CRs by adhering to quality control policies and guidelines.
• Support “go-live” and post “go-live” activities for projects and any releases to production.

Key Accountabilities of the role

• Deliver IT projects and tasks assigned for the agreed scoped business requirements, within planned budget, and planned time.
• Work with cross-functional teams to develop and document a common understanding of project requirements.
• Determine how changing business needs will affect existing systems.
• Comply with ADIB IT processes, and procedures.
• Ensure business continuity by conducting periodic system health check, DR rehearsal, security updates, technology updates, backups, hardware maintenance, software maintenance, license maintenance, and technical design improvement to assigned systems.
• Support requests of information, dashboards, MBLs and adhoc reports related to assigned systems.
• Maintain the service level of vendors support and quality of development.
• Improve awareness and keep knowledge up-to-date about supported systems and related IT technology solutions.

Communication:

• Attend all the team meetings, one-to-one meetings to have a high level of communication culture.
• Timely response to email, tasks assigned and diligent follow-up with various stakeholders.
• Prepare task status reports and submit to stakeholders on timely basis.

Documentation / Process Ownership

• The incumbent is responsible to comply with ADIB documentation and process standards that are defined SDLC.

Information Security

• Maintain information security related to ADIB, throughout the period of employment.
• Report any potential or actual risks or incidents affecting the security of information to the helpdesk.

Specialist Skills / Technical Knowledge Required for this role:

• 8+ years of Banking Domain experience
• Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects
• Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
• Developing project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
• Ensure resource availability and allocation
• Develop a detailed project plan to track progress
• Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs
• Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
• Report and elevate to management as needed
• Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks
• Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation

Job Info

• Job Identification 3923
• Posting Date 12/26/2025, 05:20 AM
• Apply Before 01/25/2026, 05:19 AM