Senior Project Manager, IT – Architecture Permanent NEW

Job Purpose

The Senior Project Manager will manage and oversee a series of projects on Enterprise platform services from initiation to implementation, working with stakeholders, technical lead, vendor, QA team, project members, business sponsors and business representatives to jointly design, develop and implement Identity and Access management (IAM), Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), DevOps and Cloud solutions. The Project Manager is required to plan, manage, execute and track the progress of concurrent projects, to bring the projects to their successful completion within budget and timeline.

This role entails managing concurrent project in multiple releases, building collaboration, and influencing strategic direction by balancing between project delivery and product roadmap. The position requires a season project manager who understand both technical and management aspect to deliver key projects under dynamic environment within a short timeline.

Highly effective in engaging senior management, project sponsors in communication and collaboration across internal and external teams with demonstrated success, building strong relationships and delivering results in cross-group projects.
The Job

• Own and be responsible for the successful delivery of projects, ensuring they are completed on time, meeting requirements and within allocated budget.
• Manage project lifecycle, from requirement, design, technical construction, testing, acceptance, training, documentation and implementation, in accordance with the GE’s Project Management Process and Methodology.
• Participate in pre-project activities such as estimation of project efforts, project budgeting, preparation of high level project plan with project timeline and resource requirements, and staffing and organization of project team.
• Plan, coordinate and communicate project plan, timeline and activities to the project team.
• Work closely with the group of key business owners and source systems SMEs, IT Architecture, IT Risk & compliance, IT Security, QA on the agreed project objectives.
• Monitor and track progress of projects and stay on top of the projects to ensure smooth execution.
• Manage and coordinate project deliverables, ensuring their quality and configuration management.
• Analyse and highlight project risks and develop necessary risk mitigation plans.
• Analyse and highlight project dependencies to pre-empt project issues.
• Maintain project issue register to keep close match of the project issues till their resolution.
• Manage performance of the project team, guide the project team in resolving issues, and resolve conflicts within the project team.
• Manage stakeholder’s expectation by understanding customers’ needs and providing realistic expectations and scope of the projects.
• Manage and work closely with vendors, business partners and data center involved in projects.
• Provide periodic update on project progress to project sponsors and escalate project issues not resolvable not project team level.
• Provide periodic update on project progress to project sponsors and escalate project issues not resolvable not project team level and PSC team.

• Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.
• Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company.
• Highlights any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.