Job Description

Brief Description:
Are you a seasoned Senior Project Manager with strong experience delivering technical projects within the banking environment? I'm currently partnering with leading financial institutions to identify Senior Technical Project Managers for upcoming contract and permanent opportunities across South Africa.
Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end delivery of banking application and IT projects.
• Manage project scope, timelines, budgets, risks, and dependencies.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams including developers, architects, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Drive delivery across core banking, digital banking, payments, or enterprise banking platforms.
• Produce and maintain project documentation, RAID logs, and reporting.
• Manage stakeholders at both technical and executive level.
• Support change management, testing, and go-live activities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent (IT or Business preferred).
• Project Management certification required:

• PMP, PRINCE2, Agile (Scrum / SAFe), or equivalent.

Experience & Skills Required:

• 8+ years' experience as a Project Manager within banking or financial services.
• Proven experience managing banking applications / core banking systems.
• Strong technical project management background (IT / systems projects).
• Experience working with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery models.
• Solid understanding of SDLC, system integration, and application delivery.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and vendor management skills.

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For more information please contact:
Zandi Masangwana

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