SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER INFRASTRUCTURE - T24 MODERNISATION (BANKING)
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Duncan & Ross seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead IT delivery for a T24 Core Banking Modernisation programme at a Qatar-based financial institution. The role involves coordinating infrastructure, system integrations, data migration, testing, release management, and cutover across multiple vendors and internal teams.
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Responsibilities
- Coordinate with infrastructure teams to build and provision all programme environments
- Validate vendor solutions against security, network, architecture, and data governance standards
- Manage secure access provisioning including VPNs, network access, and environment permissions
- Coordinate development of APIs and middleware integrations between T24 modules and downstream applications
- Monitor data extraction, cleansing, and ETL build activities; coordinate ETL and database teams
- Lead technical defect review sessions and route defects to appropriate vendors and teams
- Coordinate load testing, stress testing, high availability testing, failover testing, and disaster recovery testing
- Govern deployment pipelines and ensure controlled promotion of releases across all environments
- Own detailed technical cutover plans and execution sequences; co lead technical command centre during go live
- Hold software vendors and system integrators accountable for technical contractual deliverables
- Plan, organise, track, govern, and report all technology related workstream activities
Requirements
- Minimum 12 years of experience in IT delivery or technology programme management
- At least one full lifecycle core banking transformation programme as a senior technology lead
- Demonstrable experience on a Temenos T24 implementation or migration programme
- Deep knowledge of API, middleware, Kafka, ESB, and REST integration architecture in a core banking context
- Multi vendor and System Integrator management experience on a complex concurrent delivery
- Infrastructure delivery experience across cloud and on premise banking environments
- Experience governing environment, release, and deployment management across a large scale banking programme
- Hands on experience coordinating performance, stress, failover, DR, and cybersecurity testing in a banking context
- Strong CI/CD pipeline management and DevOps delivery experience
- PMP or equivalent project management certification
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Role Overview
- Senior technology delivery leadership role responsible for all IT delivery activities across the T24 Core Banking Modernisation programme at a leading Qatar based financial institution.
- The IT Workstream PM will own infrastructure, environments, architecture governance, system integrations, middleware delivery, data migration support, testing coordination, release management, cutover planning, and production readiness.
- Acts as the central technical orchestrator coordinating multiple software vendors, system integrators, and internal technology teams toward a single integrated delivery plan.
Key Responsibilities
- Architecture, Infrastructure & Environment: Coordinate with infrastructure teams to build and provision all programme environments; validate vendor solutions against security, network, architecture, and data governance standards; manage secure access provisioning.
- System Integration & Interface Development: Coordinate development of APIs and middleware integrations between T24 modules and all downstream applications; monitor dependencies across software vendors and internal teams.
- Data Migration Support: Monitor all technical extraction, cleansing, and ETL build activities; coordinate ETL and database teams; track mock run execution, tuning activities, and migration refinements.
- Testing: Lead technical defect review sessions; coordinate load testing, stress testing, high availability testing, failover testing, and disaster recovery testing.
- Release Management: Govern deployment pipelines and ensure controlled promotion of releases across all environments; manage release packaging, deployment readiness, and CI/CD pipeline governance.
- Cutover: Own detailed technical cutover plans and execution sequences; co lead technical command centre operations during go live weekend; establish rollback procedures, triggers, escalation paths, and recovery plans.
- Vendor Management: Hold software vendors and system integrators accountable for technical contractual deliverables; coordinate across multiple concurrent vendors with overlapping technical dependencies.
- Workstream Management: Plan, organise, track, govern, and report all technology related workstream activities; manage cross functional issues and dependencies; provide regular status updates to Programme PMO and executive stakeholders.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Minimum 12 years of experience in IT delivery or technology programme management with at least one full lifecycle core banking transformation programme as a senior technology lead.
- Demonstrable experience on a Temenos T24 implementation or migration programme.
- Deep knowledge of API, middleware, Kafka, ESB, and REST integration architecture in a core banking context.
- Multi vendor and System Integrator management experience on a complex concurrent delivery.
- Infrastructure delivery experience across cloud and on premise banking environments.
- Experience governing environment, release, and deployment management across a large scale banking programme.
- Hands on experience coordinating performance, stress, failover, DR, and cybersecurity testing in a banking context.
- Strong CI/CD pipeline management and DevOps delivery experience.
- PMP or equivalent project management certification.
- Strong stakeholder management and executive reporting capability.
Desirable Skills & Experience
- Prior experience at a Qatar, GCC, or Middle East financial institution or on a programme delivered for one.
- Familiarity with Islamic banking IT architecture and platform requirements.
- Experience with Temenos specific infrastructure, hosting environments, and release management processes.
- ITIL Foundation or Practitioner certification relevant to release and environment management.
- AWS, Azure, or equivalent cloud certification where cloud infrastructure is in scope.
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