Manage project execution and IT technical delivery of Domestic/RealTime Payments projects, providing day-to-day project leadership
Manage multiple work streams of IT technical project delivery through close coordination/cooperation with Business Owners, IT Technical Leads, Technical Specialists, Business Integrator, EQA lead
Manage, facilitate, and create enterprise level visibility of the overall progress, dependency, issues, and risks across the various projects
Participating in Quality Reviews of Conceptual Designs, Detail Designs, Detail Test Plans
Collaborating with project leadership teams and change control committee(s) to monitor dependencies and schedule impacts as they relate to project deployments
Supporting IT leadership with issue, risk and defect resolution/escalations as appropriate
Participation - Facilitation/leading of detailed requirement sessions
Define and sequence activities wrt planning for execution
Work with subject matter experts to estimate activity resources and durations
Manage project skills and staffing plan and identify resource gaps and contention issues
Participate and provide relevant information to audit
Manage Technical Lead’s, Technical Specialist and Developers
Manage daily operations of Domestic Payments:
Manage standby roster
Chair daily standby sessions
Ensure hardening and incident fixes are planned, executed, and deployed
After hour standby escalation manager
- Work closely with the Domestic Engineering Lead to ensure that all work is being done according to the architecture roadmap and security directives
- BankServ and PASA representative for Domestic Payments – engage with BankServ as and when required
- Manage all the Domestic Payments applications (Real Time Payments, Mag Tape, Account Verification, Corporate Payment System, Value Added Services, etc
- Manage DATA within all the applications and ensure ALFABET is updated with the necessary information (i.e., application owner, Disaster Recovery, Architecture, upgrades, etc)
- Manage the Disaster Recovery tests and ensure planning is done accordingly
- Manage vendors quality of code, delivery timelines, resources, etc
- Participate and provide Domestic Payments yearly budgets, recoveries, vendor resources, etc
- Create Purchase Orders, receipt invoices, manage budget as per purchase orders
- Manage vendor contracts and renewals
- Manage onboarding of contract and permanent staff (participate in interviews and participate in selection, source staff – head hunting when required)
- Manage performance reviews - conduct performance reviews for permanent and vendor resources
- Create monthly executive packs and TPO reports
- Support agile team transformation and encourage teams to adopt agile values and apply Scrum
- Remove impediments and distractions to optimize teams’ performance
- Promote Scrum / Agile principles in the Scrum teams and stakeholders and drive process improvements
