Senior Project Manager

4 days ago

Sandton, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together one story at a time.
- With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group. Job Summary

To provide advanced project management services and to develop, maintain and enhance operational business relationships.

Job Description

Critical hands-on experience:

- Highly proficient with 10 years+ hands-on experience in SDLC, PDLC, Project Management processes, tools and techniques; experience in both traditional (waterfall), AGILE and/or SAFe ways working
- Demonstrated understanding of data engineering lifecycle
- 10 years+ hands-on experience leading projects in the following fields: data management and data governance, data processing, data consumption, big data platforms, or advanced analytics
- Owns and drives planning, ensuring that technology plans are prepared to appropriate standards and updated regularly, are integrated effectively across all work-streams in and outside the CAO, are unambiguous and achievable, and that CRAIDs are clearly understood, assigned ownership, and managed
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies; sprint planning, scrum, sprint grooming and retrospectives.
- Responsible for documenting and tracking project benefits
- Responsible for managing the project budget and reporting
- Preparation and presenting project SteerCo packs
- Must be able to interpret Solution and/or Data Architecture Designs into project work packages. NOTE: Preparation of Architecture Designs rests with the Architects.
- Must adhere to the bank’s project management governance processes
- Comes from a FinTech background

Critical soft skills in addition to solid project management skills:

- The Project Manager needs to be mature, with strong communication skills and confidence to engage with stakeholders at all levels both in open forums and one-to-one.
- Remove impediments and foster a psychologically safe environment where teams can share ideas, innovate, and raise issues without fear, so that a highly motivated and high-performing team can be established.
- Project Manager needs to set correct pace and cadence
- Project Manager needs to keep the team focused on project priorities as agreed with the Product Owner(s) and/or Accountable Executive(s) to achieve the desired outcomes.
- Project Manager needs to be meticulous, with attention to detail and produce quality reports at a SteerCo level with mínimal assistance.
- Project Manager needs to be punctual and follow up on stakeholders to ensure closure on open items.

Qualifications:

- Post Graduate degree; Project/Programme Management, Management Information Systems, Finance, Data Management or Data Science from a recognized university
- Certifications; PMP, Lean Agile, DAMA, Data Science

Education

Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (required)
- Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised_

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