IT Project Assistant Manager

• Lead the successful delivery of technology projects from initiation through deployment, ensuring alignment with business objectives, technical requirements, budget, scope, quality, and timelines.
• Manage cross-functional teams across Business, Technology, Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, Vendors, and Operations to deliver complex projects and strategic initiatives.
• Drive project planning, execution, governance, risk management, stakeholder communication, and delivery assurance while adhering to approved project management methodologies and standards.
• Coordinate technical solution design, implementation activities, testing, deployment, and transition to support teams, ensuring business and operational readiness.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, delivery process optimisation, reporting automation, and PMO maturity across the Technology organisation.

Responsibilities

Project Delivery & Execution

• Lead end-to-end project delivery across multiple technology initiatives, ensuring projects are delivered on scope, schedule, budget, and quality targets.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, resource plans, and delivery roadmaps.
• Coordinate project execution activities across internal teams, vendors, and third-party partners.
• Manage project scope, change requests, and delivery priorities in accordance with approved governance processes.
• Ensure deliverables meet business requirements, technical specifications, and operational readiness criteria.

Technical Leadership & Solution Delivery

• Collaborate with Solution Architects, Development Teams, Infrastructure Teams, Security Teams, and Business Analysts to define and deliver technical solutions.
• Facilitate architecture reviews, design discussions, technical assessments, and implementation planning activities.
• Monitor technical dependencies, integration requirements, environment readiness, data migration activities, and deployment plans.
• Support technical decision-making by evaluating delivery risks, implementation approaches, and solution options.
• Ensure adherence to technology standards, security requirements, compliance controls, and enterprise architecture principles.

Stakeholder & Vendor Management

• Act as the primary point of contact for project stakeholders, ensuring effective communication of progress, risks, issues, and decisions.
• Engage with senior management, business owners, technology leaders, and external vendors to drive project alignment and delivery success.
• Facilitate project steering committees, governance forums, workshops, and status review meetings.
• Manage vendor performance, contractual deliverables, and third-party dependencies where applicable.

Project Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Maintain effective governance controls across project lifecycle stages, including initiation, planning, execution, testing, deployment, and closure.
• Identify, assess, and manage project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies (RAID).
• Track mitigation plans, escalations, action items, and key project decisions through to resolution.
• Support audit, regulatory, security, and compliance requirements throughout the project lifecycle.

Portfolio & Reporting Management

• Prepare executive-level project status reports, dashboards, steering committee packs, and management updates.
• Provide accurate reporting on project health, budget consumption, timelines, milestones, resource utilisation, and delivery performance.
• Monitor project KPIs and recommend corrective actions where delivery performance deviates from agreed targets.
• Maintain visibility of project priorities, critical initiatives, regulatory commitments, and strategic programmes.

Resource & Financial Management

• Support resource planning, capacity management, budget tracking, and forecast activities across assigned projects.
• Monitor project expenditures, vendor costs, and financial performance against approved budgets.
• Identify resource constraints and collaborate with functional managers to secure appropriate project staffing.

Continuous Improvement & Delivery Excellence

• Drive improvements in project delivery methodologies, governance frameworks, tools, templates, and reporting processes.
• Promote Agile, Hybrid, and Waterfall delivery best practices as appropriate.
• Support adoption and effective utilisation of tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project, Power BI, Confluence, and related platforms.
• Contribute to organisational project management maturity and delivery excellence initiatives.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Information Systems, or related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience managing technology projects in banking, payments, fintech, telecommunications, or large enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and Hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Experience managing application development, system integration, infrastructure, cloud, digital transformation, or payment technology projects.
• Professional certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum Master, SAFe, or equivalent are desirable.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, leadership, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

This version reflects a Technical Project Manager responsible for delivery, technology implementation, and stakeholder management, while still retaining the governance and reporting strengths that are important in Network International's environment.