Tech Project Manager

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end technical project and program delivery across scope, timeline, budget, and quality.
• Run and improve Agile ceremonies across engineering, product, and QA teams.
• Manage RAID logs, dependencies, and risk mitigation.
• Coordinate delivery teams and client stakeholders and provide executive updates.
• Oversee AI agentic and software initiatives with engineering leads, tracking feasibility, architecture decisions, and timelines.
• Ensure compliance with central bank requirements, PCI DSS, and internal security and audit policies.
• Coordinate SIT, UAT, and security or penetration testing.
• Prepare steering committee decks, scope trackers, roadmaps, and RAG status reports.
• Facilitate governance and approval of scope changes, decisions, and commercial impacts.
• Resolve delivery blockers, ambiguities, and process gaps before they affect timelines.

Required qualifications

• 9+ years of project or program management experience, including technology delivery in financial services or banking.
• Hands-on Agile software delivery experience, including sprint governance, backlog management, and release planning.
• Working knowledge of CBUAE standards, PCI DSS, and banking compliance coordination.
• Experience with Agile governance, risk and dependency management, RAID logs, and RACI frameworks.
• Experience using Jira, Linear, Confluence, or equivalent tracking systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or a related field.

Preferred qualifications

• Exposure to AI agentic systems or generative AI product development.
• PMP, PRINCE2, PMI-ACP, CSM, or SAFe certification.
• UAE or GCC banking delivery experience; familiarity with KYC/AML, financial data connectivity, or AI regulatory auditability.
• Experience managing multi-vendor delivery models in regulated industries.

Location

• The job can be filled in Dubai, UAE.