Senior Project Lead - Digital Transformation
Role Overview
The Senior Project Lead is a techno-functional role supporting the bank’s digital transformation agenda.
The role shapes problems, defines what should be built, translates designs into delivery requirements, and supports execution.
The role may manage 1–2 project leads or directly manage a workstream with 3–4 concurrent initiatives.
The role functions largely independently, with limited support from the Senior Practice Lead, and owns solution development through implementation and benefits realization.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The Senior Project Lead is a techno-functional role supporting the bank’s digital transformation agenda.
The role shapes problems, defines what should be built, translates designs into delivery requirements, and supports execution.
The role may manage 1–2 project leads or directly manage a workstream with 3–4 concurrent initiatives.
The role functions largely independently, with limited support from the Senior Practice Lead, and owns solution development through implementation and benefits realization.
Business-led workstreams
- Diagnose the current state and design an ideal future state, creating stakeholder buy-in.
- Use market and customer research where needed and translate the target state into process, policy, design, technology, and people requirements.
- Support sign-offs with business and control stakeholders, including Risk, Security, Compliance, and Legal.
Business-initiated workstreams
- Define problem statements and align stakeholders; diagnose the current state and design a target state.
- Translate the target state into requirements, prioritize them by impact, and obtain alignment.
- Manage delivery with IT, internal design and delivery teams, vendors, and external stakeholders.
- Remove bottlenecks, facilitate decisions and control sign-offs, stabilize projects, and establish or hand over to business-as-usual roles.
- Track expected impact and facilitate benefits sign-offs.
Group Digital Office-led workstreams
- Support Digital leaders in building business and finance stakeholder buy-in, including where initial stakeholder support or information access is limited.
- Lead or support primary and secondary research, diagnose the current state, and design a high-level target state.
- Define high-level requirements and identify benefits and cost drivers.
- Work with business and delivery teams on high-level costs and benefits, socialize business cases with decision-makers, and secure budget approvals.
- Formalize initiatives through IT, procurement, and other delivery processes.
Experience and capabilities
- The description states 5+ years in top-tier management consulting or 8–10 years in digital transformation/business experience; the latter text is truncated in the source.
- Requires strong problem solving, communication, process and journey design, requirements development, and project management capabilities.
- Requires independent work and the ability to manage project leads or multiple concurrent initiatives.
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