Information Technology Project Manager

About This Role

Work Location Al Reem Island , Abu Dhabi, UAE

General Functions

• Define, communicate, and execute the vision and strategies for effective project management across the organization

• Responsible for the effective and timely execution of projects

• Facilitate governance for the project portfolio and each individual project

• Schedule and balance activities to meet deadlines for deliverables and meetings

• Manage and oversee projects budgets

• Keep leadership informed of changes related to new and ongoing projects within the organization; resolve and/or escalate project issues in a timely fashion

• Deliver engaging, informative, and well-organized presentations

• Meet professional obligations through efficient work habits such as, meeting deadlines, honoring schedules, coordinating resources and meetings in an effective and timely manner, and demonstrate respect for others

• All work responsibilities are subject to having performance goals and/or targets

established

• Understand the business/client environment and systems, connectivity and

application technological alternatives

• Manage multiple enterprise level/high traffic projects, meet deadlines, interface with different company business units and work in a fast-paced technology driven environment

• Evaluate information from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high level information into details and abstract low-level information to a more general understanding

• Decompose a project into distinct work packages and determine appropriate resource requirements for each work package

Experience

• Minimum eight (8) years of experience in IT Program, portfolio, and projects management working in Management/ IT Consulting organizations or Financial Services industries with focus on

• Investment Banking, Brokerage, Asset Management or Capital Markets

• Understanding of SDLC

• Understanding of software programming and trading systems design and operations

• Understanding of Project Management methodologies(Waterfall/ Agile)