VP, Infrastructure Project Manager - Core Banking Support

SMBC Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SMBC Group in Singapore is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Project Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of complex cloud and on-premises initiatives. You will define scopes, plans, milestones, and governance, coordinating multi-disciplinary teams across Cloud Infrastructure, Platform, Security, Governance, Engineering, and Operations, while reporting progress to stakeholders with transparency.

You will ensure milestones are met, risks mitigated, and delivery documentation maintained,

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in infrastructure project management or a related role.
• Experience managing complex, cross-functional infrastructure projects with multiple environments, dependencies, stakeholders, and delivery teams.
• Practical knowledge of cloud infrastructure and enterprise platform delivery, preferably including Microsoft Azure, OpenShift, and event-streaming platforms such as Confluent Kafka.
• Strong project planning and governance skills, including milestone management, WBS tracking, dependency management, risk and issue management, change control, and management reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end infrastructure project delivery from scope through deployment and closure.
• Define and maintain project scope, delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, WBS, governance forums, and status reporting.
• Coordinate infrastructure readiness across development, testing, production, and other environments.
• Align cross-functional teams across Cloud Infrastructure, Platform, Security, Governance, Engineering, and operations.
• Facilitate regular project meetings, track actions, and drive timely resolution of issues and dependencies.
• Identify, assess, upscale, and track risks, issues, changes, and constraints with impact analysis and mitigation actions.
• Maintain transparent reporting on progress, decisions, delivery risks, and change impacts.
• Plan deployment activities, post-deployment validation, and service readiness checks.
• Ensure documentation including reference architecture, security baselines, and design guidelines is completed.
• Support infrastructure strategy and migration planning for APAC cloud initiatives and other programs.
• Comply with SMBC project management standards, policies, risk controls, and Code of Conduct.

Skills

Infrastructure project management

Cloud infrastructure

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Risk management

Cross-functional coordination

Leadership

Communication skills

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Confluent Kafka

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end infrastructure project delivery from scope definition and planning through deployment, validation, transition, and closure.
• Define and maintain project scope, delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), governance forums, and status reporting.
• Coordinate infrastructure readiness across development, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, production and other environments.
• Align cross-functional teams across Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Platform, Cloud Security, Cloud Governance, Engineering, application delivery, and operations.
• Facilitate regular project meetings and delivery stand-ups, maintain clear ownership of actions, and drive timely resolution of issues and dependencies.
• Identify, assess, upscale, track project risks, issues, changes, and constraints, with clear impact analysis, mitigation actions, recovery plans, and revised timelines where required.
• Maintain effective stakeholder communication and provide accurate, transparent reporting on progress, decisions, delivery risks, and change impacts.
• Plan and coordinate deployment activities, including implementation sequencing, post-deployment validation, issue investigation, and service readiness checks.
• Ensure required project and service documentation is completed and reviewed, including reference architecture, security baselines, design guidelines, development guidelines, and operational guidelines.
• Support infrastructure strategy and migration planning for APAC cloud initiatives and other strategic technology programmes.
• Ensure delivery activities comply with SMBC project management standards, internal policies, risk and compliance requirements, and the Bank Code of Conduct.
• Provide infrastructure project management support for core banking initiatives, ensuring effective coordination between programme, application, infrastructure, and operations teams.
• Apply agile delivery practices, including iterative planning, prioritisation, delivery tracking, and regular stakeholder review, while maintaining required Bank governance and controls.
• Coordinate project resources across multiple infrastructure domains, identify capacity or skill gaps early, and align ownership and sequencing to avoid delivery issues.

Qualifications & Requirements

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in infrastructure project management, technology programme delivery, or a related role.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex, cross-functional infrastructure projects with multiple environments, dependencies, stakeholders, and delivery teams.
• Practical knowledge of cloud infrastructure and enterprise platform delivery, preferably including Microsoft Azure, container platforms such as Azure Red Hat OpenShift, and event-streaming platforms such as Confluent Kafka.
• Strong project planning and governance skills, including milestone management, WBS tracking, dependency management, risk and issue management, change control, and management reporting.
• Ability to coordinate technical teams, application teams, security and governance functions, operations teams, and external vendors.
• Strong ownership, judgement, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to maintain delivery momentum under compressed timelines and changing priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain delivery status, risks, impacts, and required decisions clearly to technical and management stakeholders.
• High standards of integrity, transparency, accountability, and compliance in project execution and stakeholder management.
• Experience supporting core banking, cash management, or other business-critical banking technology programmes.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate resources across multiple teams and manage competing priorities to prevent delivery gaps and issues.