Junior Project Manager

PERSOL SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

PERSOL Singapore is seeking a senior project delivery professional to lead solution formulation, due diligence and end-to-end delivery across security architecture, infrastructure and risk functions. You will drive workshops, translate objectives into detailed requirements, and challenge designs to ensure scalable, secure and compliant outcomes.

You will own governance processes, coordinate with stakeholders and vendors, and manage budgets and approvals to successful closure.

Qualifications

• Experience leading multi-disciplinary workshops with security, architecture, engineering and risk teams.
• Ability translate business objectives into functional and non-functional requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and solutioning workshops with cross-functional teams.
• Translate objectives into requirements covering security, resilience, data protection and regulatory needs.
• Critically review proposed architectures, data flows and deployment models.
• Drive decisions to closure with clear owners, evidence and endorsements.
• Govern feasibility studies, PoCs and technical evaluations with measurable success criteria.
• Oversee end-to-end project delivery from initiation to steady-state operations.
• Manage governance, budgeting and approvals, ensuring audit traceability.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Security architecture understanding

Job description

1. Solution Formulation and Technical Due Diligence

• Lead discovery and solutioning workshops with Security Architecture, Security Engineering, infrastructure, application, operations, risk, procurement and vendor teams.
• Translate business and security objectives into clear functional, technical, operational, integration, resilience and non-functional requirements.
• Understand and critically review proposed solution architectures, high-level and detailed designs, data flows, interfaces, deployment models, security controls, operational dependencies and support arrangements.
• Constructively challenge design assumptions, vendor recommendations, scope boundaries and implementation approaches to ensure alternatives, trade-offs, constraints and residual risks are adequately considered and documented.
• Ensure solution proposals address scalability, availability, resilience, security, integration, performance, supportability, maintainability, logging, monitoring, access control, data protection and regulatory requirements, where applicable.
• Drive technical decisions to closure by securing clear rationale, accountable owners, supporting evidence and required architecture or security endorsements.
• Identify opportunities to reuse or extend existing Bank capabilities before introducing new technology, and highlight potential duplication, integration complexity or technology concentration risks.
• Plan and govern feasibility studies, proof-of-concept activities and technical evaluations, with measurable success criteria and documented recommendations.

2. Project Formulation, Budgeting and Procurement

• Facilitate workshops to gather, analyse, harmonise and document stakeholder requirements.
• Develop and maintain project scope, delivery approach, assumptions, dependencies, resource requirements, implementation roadmap and Level 0 cost estimates.
• Prepare business requirements, RFI, RFP or RFQ specifications, evaluation criteria, scoring methodology, proof-of-concept requirements and vendor presentation expectations.
• Lead the end-to-end sourcing process with relevant procurement teams, ensuring adherence to the Bank's sourcing standards, governance requirements and audit traceability.
• Coordinate technical, functional and commercial evaluations, clarify material differences between proposals, and prepare recommendations for the relevant approval forums.
• Support commercial negotiations and coordinate the finalisation of statements of work, deliverables, acceptance criteria, service levels, contractual obligations, financial terms and change-control provisions.
• Prepare submissions and supporting materials for project funding and governance approvals.

3. End-to-End Project Delivery

• Own project delivery from initiation through design, build, testing, deployment, operationalisation and closure.
• Establish and maintain integrated project plans covering technical delivery, infrastructure readiness, integration, data onboarding, testing, security assurance, change management, operational readiness and handover.
• Ensure project milestones, dependencies, decisions, risks, issues, actions and deliverables are actively managed and driven to closure.
• Anticipate delivery constraints and elevate material risks early, with clear impact assessments, mitigation actions, owners and target dates.
• Hold vendors and delivery teams accountable for the completeness, quality and timeliness of contracted deliverables.
• Ensure testing includes relevant functional, integration, performance, resilience, security, operational and user-acceptance considerations, with defects and exceptions formally tracked.
• Drive operational readiness, including procedures, support model, monitoring, service levels, training, knowledge transfer, access arrangements, business continuity and handover to steady-state operations.
• Plan and execute stakeholder engagement, communications and change-management activities required for successful adoption.

4. Governance, Financial Management and Reporting

• Apply the Bank's project delivery methodology and relevant technology, architecture, security, procurement, risk and change-governance requirements.
• Prepare accurate, concise and decision-oriented materials for Project Steering Committees and other governance forums.
• Maintain high standards of quality, accuracy and consistency across project documents, logs, trackers, plans and reporting materials.
• Manage project financials, including approved budget, commitments, forecasts, planned versus actual expenditure and anticipated variances.
• Act as the central coordination point across business, security, technology, operations, vendors and control functions.
• Conduct process-assurance or peer reviews of other GIS projects when required, and recommend improvements to delivery practices.

Able to understand cyber security