PMO Delivery Lead

Synechron; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Synechron seeks a PMO Delivery Lead to oversee CTO portfolio delivery from Kraków, operating in a hybrid model. You will drive governance, reporting, and cross-team coordination to ensure programmes meet strategic objectives and client standards.

The role requires expert stakeholder management, leadership, and deep knowledge of portfolio management practices within fintech environments. You will collaborate with senior sponsors and ExCo to enable successful outcomes.

Qualifications

• Strong reporting skills with CTO-level visibility.
• Deep knowledge of portfolio management frameworks and best practices.
• Proactive problem-solving and stakeholder negotiation.

Responsibilities

• Act as PMO Delivery Lead for CTO Areas and coordinate cross-portfolio delivery.
• Serve as single point of contact between Areas and Central PMO.
• Support area planning, track progress, and report health metrics.
• Ensure programmes align with client frameworks and standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to optimize resource demand and planning.
• Monitor interdependencies with other programmes and drive improvements.

Skills

Portfolio management

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Financial planning

Reporting to CTO

Communication

Negotiation

Problem solving

Time management

Fintech domain knowledge

Tools

PMO frameworks

Job description

Work Type: Hybrid / Open for full time Contract (B2B)

About Company:

At Synechron, we believe in the power of digital to transform businesses for the better. Our global consulting firm combines creativity and innovative technology to deliver industry-leading digital solutions. Synechron’s progressive technologies and optimization strategies span end-to-end Artificial Intelligence, Consulting, Digital, Cloud & DevOps, Data, and Software Engineering, servicing an array of noteworthy financial services and technology firms. Through research and development initiatives in our FinLabs we develop solutions for modernization, from Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain to Data Science models, Digital Underwriting, mobile-first applications and more. Over the last 20+ years, our company has been honored with multiple employer awards, recognizing our commitment to our talented teams. With top clients to boast about, Synechron has a global workforce of 14,700+ and has 55 offices in 20 countries within key global markets. For more information on the company, please visit our website or LinkedIn community.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative-action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Role Description and main responsibilities:

The role holder will report to the Head of CTO Change Portfolio Management and will operate as the dedicated PMO Delivery Lead for at least one of the CTO Areas.

The role holder will:

• Partner with Areas’ stakeholders, Project and Program Sponsors & Transformation Leads across all CTO Portfolios and collaborate with them on regular basis.
• Work as single point of contact between Areas and the Central PMO function.
• Support the effective delivery of the Area’s portfolio outcomes, ensuring these are aligned to the organisational strategic requirements and priorities.
• Work along with Area stakeholders to drive the delivery of accurate and timely plan.
• Report on Area’s portfolio health back to the PMO Lead, Head of PMO Change Management and ExCo.
• Identify thematic Risks and Issues for the Area and report these back to Central PMO.
• Ensure the Area’s programmes adhere to Client Frameworks and standards.
• Support Area’s annual planning activities, advise on best methods and perform health checks on resource supply and demand requirements.
• Ensure Area’s programmes are well interlocked with other programmes within Client Technology and are well understood and managed.
• Not own any governed programmes or projects but will be responsible for monitoring the Area’s Programmes/Portfolios/projects.
• Very good understanding of Portfolio management frameworks, methodologies, and best practice techniques
• Pro‑active problem‑solving skills with strong experience of negotiating, documenting and presenting recommendations to deliver shared outcomes.
• Critical thinking, able to work to under pressure to challenging timescales and deliver at pace.
• Excellent stakeholder management, presentation, and communication skills – Proven experience of exposure to Senior stakeholders is critical.
• Very good leadership skills and ability to engage and bring different teams together.
• Strong understanding and experience of financial planning processes including forecasting, management of variances and common project accounting principles (e.g. cash, directs and P&L accounting)
• Very good time management skills and ability to work under challenging timescales to deliver at pace.
• Experience of continuous improvement.
• Strong knowledge of technology infrastructure products and platforms and fintech.

Strong/ in-depth reporting skills as data reported to CTO level within Client. Ability to turn around ad-hoc requests into high level reports from senior management.