Payments Project Manager

Novia Infotech; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Novia Infotech is seeking a Payments Project Manager with 10+ years of IT experience, specializing in Banking and Payments. You will lead end-to-end delivery of payments initiatives, from planning and requirements through production rollout, working across business, product, architecture, development, QA, and operations.

You will drive governance, RAID, risk and milestone reporting to senior stakeholders, manage agile ceremonies, and ensure payment-processing needs translate into executable

Qualifications

• Experience leading end-to-end payments initiatives in Banking/Payments.
• Strong governance, reporting, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Hands-on with agile delivery and cross-team coordination.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of payments technology initiatives from planning to production rollout.
• Manage scope, schedule, dependencies, risks, issues, resources, and milestones.
• Coordinate across Business, Product, Architecture, Development, QA, Infra, and Ops.
• Provide concise health, milestone, risk, and escalation reporting to senior stakeholders.

Skills

Project/Program Management

Payments programs/projects

Agile/Scrum delivery

Distributed onsite/offshore teams

Payment-processing APIs/integrations

Production environments

Job description

Payments Project Manager with 10+ years of overall IT experience, with strong project/program management experience in Banking and Payments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of Payments technology initiatives, from planning and requirements through implementation and production rollout.
• Manage project scope, schedule, dependencies, risks, issues, resources, and delivery milestones.
• Coordinate across Business, Product, Architecture, Development, QA, Infrastructure, Operations, and vendor teams.
• Drive governance meetings, status reporting, RAID management, dependency tracking, and executive/client communications.
• Partner with Business Analysts and Product teams to ensure business requirements and payment-processing needs are translated into executable delivery plans.
• Coordinate application, integration, testing, certification, deployment, and production-readiness activities.
• Identify delivery risks and blockers proactively and drive them to closure.
• Manage Agile ceremonies, release planning, deliverables, and cross-team dependencies.
• Provide concise project health, milestone, risk, and escalation reporting to senior stakeholders.

Required Skills

• Strong Project/Program Management experience in Banking or Financial Services.
• Hands-on experience managing Payments programs/projects.
• Knowledge of payment-processing lifecycle and payment systems.
• Strong Agile/Scrum delivery and project governance experience.
• Ability to manage distributed onsite/offshore technology teams.
• Good understanding of enterprise applications, APIs, integrations, databases, and production environments.

Preferred Payments Knowledge

• ISO 20022
• SWIFT and payment messaging
• Commercial Banking Payments
• Payment processing, reconciliation, exceptions, and settlement
• Payment modernization/transformation programs

The commercial banking payments context is especially relevant because the internal BofA discussion specifically describes the area as commercial banking payment processing with a high-volume environment and emphasizes Java/Spring Boot, Oracle/database and infrastructure capabilities