Senior PMO Leader: Portfolio & Governance

Raqami Islamic Digital Bank Ltd.; Karachi Division; On-site; PKR 2,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Raqami Islamic Digital Bank Ltd. seeks a Manager PMO to lead enterprise project governance and portfolio delivery oversight, ensuring strategic initiatives, business programs, technology changes, releases, and partnerships are governed with accountability and tangible outcomes.

The role provides senior management with a reliable view of portfolio health, risks, dependencies, and resource constraints, strengthening execution discipline by challenging plans and escalating material issues.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, IT, or Engineering.
• MBA or relevant master’s degree preferred.
• 8+ years in project, program, portfolio, transformation, or PMO roles, with at least 4 years in a PMO/EPMO leadership role.
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional, technology-enabled initiatives such as system implementations, integrations, product releases, and transformation.
• Experience setting up or improving governance frameworks, portfolio reporting, prioritization, risk/issue management, and change control.
• Experience presenting portfolio health, delivery risks, and recovery recommendations to senior management.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve the PMO governance framework, policies, standards, templates, stage gates, escalation paths, and delivery methodologies across Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid initiatives.
• Maintain an integrated enterprise portfolio view covering strategic alignment, scope, milestones, financials, resource demand, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and expected benefits.
• Oversee governance for digital banking products, core banking changes, system enhancements, APIs, channels, integrations, and operational platforms.
• Ensure project plans identify regulatory, compliance, information security, data privacy, operational risk, business continuity, audit, and control dependencies.
• Provide project governance for external partnerships, third-party platforms, corporate arrangements, service providers, and technology integrations.
• Own the quality and timeliness of executive portfolio dashboards, management reports, and presentations.
• Coordinate with Finance, sponsors, and delivery owners on budgets, estimates, forecasts, and resource capacity.
• Lead, coach, and develop PMO staff, setting clear responsibilities and reporting standards.
• Own or coordinate effective use of Jira, Microsoft Project, Excel, Power BI for dashboards and data quality.

Skills

PMO governance

Portfolio management

Program leadership

Risk management

Change control

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration/IT/Engineering

MBA or related master's degree

Tools

Jira

Microsoft Project

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Raqami Islamic Digital Bank Ltd. seeks a Manager PMO to lead enterprise project governance and portfolio delivery oversight, ensuring strategic initiatives, business programs, technology changes, releases, and partnerships are governed with accountability and tangible outcomes.

The role provides senior management with a reliable view of portfolio health, risks, dependencies, and resource constraints, strengthening execution discipline by challenging plans and escalating material issues.