Senior IT Project Manager

Akaasa Technologies; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Akaasa Technologies in Jersey City, NJ, is seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to own end-to-end delivery of a large technology initiative in the banking/finance sector. The role requires coordinating requirements, architecture, engineering, testing, security, and production readiness across multiple teams in a hybrid on-site environment.

You will drive governance with charter, plan, RAID, risk visibility, and go/no-go decisions, ensuring evidence-based progress, clear milestones, and alignment

Qualifications

• End-to-end delivery ownership of large technology projects in banking/finance.
• Experience coordinating requirements, architecture, engineering, testing, security and production readiness.
• Strong governance, RAID management and decision-making experience.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of one large technology project or a set of initiatives from initiation through closure.
• Translate business objectives into an integrated delivery plan with milestones, dependencies and success criteria.
• Negotiate scope, schedule and trade-offs with sponsors, leads, and vendors; drive evidence-based delivery health.
• Maintain disciplined planning and alignment across Jira, delivery teams, and governance reporting.

Skills

Banking/Finance domain experience

Stakeholder management

Job description

POSITION

Senior IT Project Manager

Start date & Location

Jersey City, NJ

Hybrid 3 Days onsite

REQUIRED SKILLS

MUST COME FROM BANKING / FINANCE

Core Accountabilities

Own end-to-end delivery of one large, complex technology project or a coordinated set of mid-to-large initiatives, from

initiation and planning through production implementation and closure.

Translate business and technology objectives into an integrated delivery plan with clear scope, milestones, critical

path, success criteria, resource needs, governance checkpoints, and decision dates.

Negotiate scope, schedule, sequencing, capacity, and delivery trade-offs with sponsors, technology leads, Product,

EPMO, Finance, control partners, and vendors.

Act as the central point of accountability for delivery health, ensuring commitments are evidence-based, transparent,

and actively managed.

Planning, Execution and Delivery Governance

Establish and maintain the project charter, integrated plan, milestone schedule, delivery roadmap, RAID log, decision

log, action register, dependency map, stakeholder map, and change-control record.

Apply the appropriate MCT and enterprise delivery framework, including System Delivery Process (SDP), Delivery

Practices Program (DPP), and applicable infrastructure delivery practices.

Coordinate requirements, architecture, engineering, testing, security, infrastructure, operational readiness, release,

and post-implementation activities across contributing teams.

Drive readiness reviews and go/no-go decisions using documented evidence, approvals, control completion,

operational support readiness, rollback planning, and unresolved-risk visibility.

Maintain disciplined PPM and Jira alignment so scope, milestones, resources, delivery status, and governance

reporting remain consistent across systems of record.