Role Overview
We are looking for an experiencedTechnical Project Managerwith8–15+ years of Banking/Financial Services experience, preferably across retail or commercial banking, to lead complexCore Banking implementation, migration, upgrade, and transformation programmes.
The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience managinglegacy-to-modern core banking migrations, with a strong understanding of technology, data, integrations, testing, cutover, and production stabilisation. The role will involve working closely with business, technology, architecture, data, operations, vendors, and senior stakeholders across India, UK, Europe, or global teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Leadend-to-end delivery of Core Banking implementation, migration, upgrade, and transformation programmes.
- Manage project scope, timelines, budgets, resources, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, RAID, and governance.
- Own the full migration lifecycle:Discovery → Design → Data Migration → Integration → SIT → UAT → Dress Rehearsal → Cutover → Go-Live → Hypercare.
- Coordinate Business Analysts, Developers, Architects, Data, QA/Test, DevOps, Infrastructure, Operations, and Business teams.
- Overseedata migration, including data mapping, cleansing, validation, reconciliation, migration testing, and readiness.
- Manage technical dependencies acrossAPIs, integrations, interfaces, databases, batch processing, downstream/upstream systems, and application architecture.
- Drive SIT/UAT, defect management, environment readiness, business sign-off, and production readiness.
- Develop and managecutover, rollback, contingency, and hypercare plans.
- Manage vendors, system integrators, and third-party technology partners.
- Provide regular programme status, risks, decisions, and escalations to senior stakeholders and steering committees.
- Ensure adherence to technology governance, security, risk, compliance, regulatory, and operational requirements.
- Proactively identify delivery risks and resolve complex programme and technical challenges.
Requirements
Technical & Domain Skills
- Strong experience withCore Banking platforms, including implementation, migration, replacement, upgrade, or modernisation.
- Proven experience migratingfrom one core banking platform to another, preferablylegacy → modern core banking platform.
- Good understanding ofAPIs, integrations, data migration, interfaces, batch processing, databases, architecture, testing, deployment, and release management.
- Experience with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies.
- Familiarity withJira, Confluence, MS Project, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.
- Banking domain experience acrossCore Banking, Payments, Lending, Retail/Commercial Banking, Digital Banking, Risk & Compliance, Regulatory Reporting, or Data.
- Experience deliveringlarge-scale banking transformation programmes, rather than primarily application maintenance or BAU projects.
Stakeholder & Programme Management
- Strong experience managing stakeholders acrossBusiness, Technology, Architecture, Data, Operations, Testing, Infrastructure, Vendors, and senior banking leadership.
- Excellent communication, leadership, influencing, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience managing geographically distributed teams and third-party vendors.
- Ability to communicate complex technical and migration topics effectively to both technical and business audiences.
- Experience working withUK/European/global banking stakeholdersis highly desirable.
Requirements
- 8–15+ yearsof experience in Banking/Financial Services and IT Project/Programme Management.
- Proven experience deliveringCore Banking implementation, migration, upgrade, or transformation programmes.
- Strong understanding ofend-to-end migration, data, integrations, testing, cutover, and hypercare.
- Strong project governance, RAID, dependency, budget, milestone, and stakeholder management experience.
- India-based candidate with flexibility to work withUK/European/global teams.
- PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum Master, or equivalent certificationis desirable.
Preferred Profile:Candidates with direct experience leadingCore Banking replacement or migration programmes, particularly legacy-to-modern platform transformations involving complex data migration, integrations, testing, cutover, and post-go-live stabilisation, will be strongly preferred.