Digital IT Project Manager - Banking

Verinon Technology Sdn Bhd; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Maybank is seeking a Digital IT Project Manager to drive and manage IT projects and the project team across software delivery, ensuring alignment with group tech objectives.

You will lead agile and waterfall deliveries, coordinate stakeholders, manage vendors where needed, and ensure compliance with bank policies and RFP/RFI procedures. Strong Jira/Confluence skills and banking domain knowledge are essential.

Qualifications

• Degree in computer science principles.
• 6 years’ IT project manager experience in software delivery with in-house development, APACS.
• 2 years experience in technical or functional role in banking systems by in-house team.
• 1 year experience in scrum master role.
• Strong knowledge of scrum techniques & artefacts (DoD, stories, backlog).
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Proficient in Jira & Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Lead software delivery projects using agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Lead the scrum team and coach on removing impediments.
• Support the product owner and development team to achieve customer satisfaction.
• Maintain clear reporting and stakeholder engagement on progress, risks, and issues.

Skills

Scrum master

Stakeholder management

Jira

Confluence

Agile & Scrum

Communication

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Banking systems knowledge (APACS)

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

The Digital IT project manager is required to manage IT activities & IT project team members for the application project(s) to achieve the IT objective of the project. This role is a key driver & representation from Group Tech for the IT project.

Digital IT Project Management

• 1. Driving & managing digital IT projects as follow:
• a. Scope to be captured, tracked, controlled & validated to ensure commitment as approved is being delivered
• b. Timeline to be planned, tracked, controlled & alerted promptly
• c. Budgeting are to be approved, drawdown, utilised & tracked promptly & accurately
• d. IT resourcing are to be planned, mobilised & tracked to ensure accountability to respective role deliverables are met
• e. Identify deviation in project planning, monitoring, execution & closure to be raised clearly as risks or issues & resolved promptly
• f. All risks & issues for the project is being captured, reported, tracked & resolved to ensure
• g. Communicate, report & engage with stakeholders as a key representative of group tech to ensure clarity of project progress, deviations, risks & issues are addressed accordingly

Ensuring compliance to bank’s policies & processes for project(s) managed

• a. Adherence to IT spend approvals procedures
• b. Adherence to RFP/RFI/demand procedures
• c. Adherence to software delivery lifecycle via waterfall, agile & both
• d. Adherence to project management best practices

Manage vendors where the project requires external parties

• a. Plan, monitor, track, report, pay & close required activities with the vendor
• b. Ensuring vendor deliverables are validated & sync with payments
• c. Ensuring tracking of costing & payments promptly

Understanding of technology in the areas

• a. Digital ecosystem on functional & technical domain knowledge to enable validation of work & problem solving
• b. Understanding of infrastructure is advantageous

Agile & waterfall software delivery

• 1. Delivery of software in agile and waterfall in accordance to application standards
• 2. Lead the scrum team in using agile & scrum practices
• 3. Helping the product owner & development team to achieve customer satisfaction
• 4. Remove impediments & coach the scrum team on removing impediments

Project landscape:

• 1. The role will be managing digital projects for local & regional Maybank entities
• 2. Project management will cover end-to-end project delivery
• 3. Hands on experience in managing software incrementals that will be used by millions of Maybank customers
• 4. Close working relationship with business partners in virtual banking

Requirements

• 1. Degree in related computer science principles
• 2. 6 years’ experience in IT project manager role in the context of software delivery with in-house development, APACS
• 3. 2 year experience in technical or functional related role in banking systems by in-house team
• 4. 1 year experience in scrum master role
• 5. Good knowledge in scrum techniques & artefacts, i..e DoD, stories, backlog, etc
• 6. Able to resolve problems creatively
• 7. Strong stakeholder management
• 8. Proficient in using Jira & Confluence
• 9. Strong interpersonal & collaborative skills as well as highly effective communication skills
• 10. Organised, detail oriented & thorough
• 11. Strong desire to help improve processes & mentor other.