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Key Responsibilities:

Overall Project Management:

- Lead and manage a large-scale Data Centre Migration Project involving the transition of close to 10,000 virtual machines from a single incumbent technology provider to two new external providers, within a hypervisor-based environment.

- Oversee one of the two vendor migration tracks, based on a workload distribution ratio of approximately 40%–60% between the two platforms, ensuring clear accountability, progress tracking, and vendor performance management.

- Drive the project across its full lifecycle (estimated 2.5 years), covering planning, infrastructure design, build, cutover, and post-migration stabilization, in compliance with the bank’s regulatory, security, and risk management frameworks.

- Responsible for coordinating with infra delivery resources required to complete the infrastructure build, and implementation, working with the infrastructure architects, the engineering team and the build team.

- Highlight and propose a revised plan if there is a conflicting resource, timeline or unrealistic expectation of infrastructure delivery/build time.

- Monitor and analyse the implementation of each infrastructure project. Recommend re-prioritisation based on the sensitivity, urgency, priority, and type of projects (e.g. compliance/regulatory) and the approval requirement.

- Consolidate the plan against the actual end-to-end cost required to deliver infrastructure projects. Recommend optimization of cost by consolidating similar infrastructure components and timelines.

- Responsible and track the quality, scope, timeline, effort (co-related to estimation, CR’s, complexity), resources (includes Technology Operations department , business, contractor, Professional Services resources as well as operations),

- Develop and execute the overall project plan and analyse project proposals which impacts the schedule and budget variance which in turn contribute to meeting the overall objectives of the project.

- Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones and required activities and tasks.

Stakeholder Management & Vendor Management:

- Partner respective project stakeholders for collaboration and manage external vendors.

- Collaborate with infrastructure architects, engineering teams, and build teams to plan infrastructure sizing, validate technical designs, and ensure timely execution of the build and implementation activities.

Scope Management:

- Manage all changes to the agreed scope of work Review and assess all changes and impact to timeline and ensure all changes are approved by PSC

Project Governance & Compliance:

- Prepare and present investment decks for project approvals at ITC/TPWC. Organize and lead PSC and Project Working Committee (PWC) meetings. Ensure strict adherence to process assurance gates, regulatory and audit requirements, and bank-wide development methodologies applicable to financial institutions.

Risk & Issue Management:

- Manage overall project risk, track risk aging, work through escalations, change governance and related issues. Implement the risk mitigation plans.

Project Reporting:

- Measure, monitor and report progress to stakeholders at various levels of organization across the enterprise with the right quality, consistency in content.

- Implement project communication plan and review status reports prepared by project personnel and modify schedules or plans as required

Requirements:

Technical Skills & Experience

- Bachelor’s degree in IT, business, finance, or equivalent.

- At least 10 years experience in project management in banking, financial, consulting industries with proven track record.

- Good problem solver and stay on top of the project risks and issues till closure.

- Good team player and is able to exercise formal and informal ways to lead the vertical teams in achieving the common project targets.

- Excellent presentation skills and able to front with the senior stakeholders at C level.

- Passionate, diligent, and resilient individual with ability if thrive in ambiguity.

- Previous exposure in managing Large Scale Data Migration Projects involving physical machines and virtual machine in the regulatory landscape for banks/financial services institution and with technological know-how for data centre servers.

Education

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or similar domain

- Related professional/technical qualification will be advantageous although not mandatory

- Good to have PMP, Prince2 certification

About us:
D L Resources Pte Ltd is a leading provider of IT Professional Services & Banking outsourced staffing solutions, serving a diverse portfolio of clients across various industries including Financial Services Institutions, Banks & MNCs.


Interested candidates may reach out directly to our recruiters on whatsapp (Edwin: +65 8 8 3 3 0 1 9 2 | EA License No: 24C2333 | EA Personnel No: R24123520)