Assitant Director-BFSI Technology Program Manager

Job purpose

We are seeking an accomplished BFSI Technology Project Manager to lead a portfolio of strategic technology, digitization, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, and banking application initiatives for a leading bank in Bahrain.

The successful candidate will operate as a senior technology and transformation leader, taking end-to-end ownership of complex, enterprise-wide initiatives from planning and solution evaluation through implementation, business readiness, production transition, and benefits realization. This role requires a strong combination of banking domain knowledge, technology, program delivery leadership, executive stakeholder management, and vendor governance. The candidate must be capable of independently leading onsite engagements and coordinating business functions, technology teams, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, operations, risk, compliance, and external implementation partners.

Key responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of strategic technology, digitization, and transformation programs across the bank.
• Demonstrate experience delivering technology and transformation initiatives across retail banking, corporate banking, and treasury.
• Translate the bank’s strategic priorities into executable technology programs, roadmaps, milestones, budgets,
• Manage end-to-end delivery, including scope, planning, budgets, resources, timelines, risks, dependencies, governance, and benefits realization. and measurable outcomes.
• Provide end-to-end ownership of complex banking technology programs, from initiation and business-case development through implementation, transition, and closure.
• Oversee programs involving digital banking, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, data, integration, and enterprise applications.
• Lead banking application implementations, upgrades, integrations, migrations, modernization, and system replacement initiatives.
• Drive digital transformation initiatives covering mobile and internet banking, customer onboarding, digital journeys, workflow automation, and straight-through processing.
• Lead or oversee infrastructure modernization, cloud adoption, hybrid infrastructure, data-centre migration, technology refresh, and platform consolidation initiatives.
• Demonstrate working knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud, without being restricted to a specific provider.
• Understand banking application landscapes, including interactions and dependencies across upstream and downstream systems.
• Work closely with enterprise architects and technical teams to understand solution architecture, integration requirements, technology dependencies, and implementation risks.
• Review and challenge solution designs, technical estimates, implementation plans, dependencies, security controls, and vendor recommendations.
• Ensure solutions meet business, architecture, security, regulatory, resilience, performance, and operational requirements.
• Coordinate business, technology, architecture, infrastructure, security, data, operations, risk, compliance, and vendor teams.
• Establish program governance, steering committees, executive reporting, decision forums, and escalation mechanisms.
• Apply appropriate Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies based on program requirements.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, including requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, and support.
• Ensure clear ownership and resolution of data-quality issues, migration exceptions, and reconciliation gaps.
• Oversee release planning, environment management, configuration management, deployment, and production-readiness activities.
• Govern testing, release planning, cutover, production readiness, service transition, and post-implementation stabilization.
• Manage technology vendors and system integrators, including deliverables, performance, commercials, risks, and escalations.
• Drive business readiness, change management, communication, training, user adoption, and operational handover.
• Provide clear executive updates on program progress, financials, risks, decisions, and business outcomes.

Key competencies

• 10+ years of experience in technology project, program, or portfolio management within Banking/BFSI.
• Proven experience leading large-scale banking technology implementations, upgrades, integrations, migrations, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of retail banking, corporate banking, treasury, payments, lending, or related banking domains.
• Strong experience managing a portfolio of concurrent technology and digitization programs across the bank.
• Broad understanding of banking applications, enterprise architecture, APIs, systems integration, and upstream/downstream dependencies.
• Working knowledge of cloud and hybrid infrastructure, cybersecurity, data platforms, and technology resilience.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Experience managing program scope, budgets, resources, timelines, risks, dependencies, governance, and benefits realization.
• Strong experience coordinating across business, technology, architecture, infrastructure, security, data, operations, and compliance teams.
• Proven ability to review and challenge solution designs, delivery estimates, implementation plans, security controls, and vendor recommendations.
• Strong executive stakeholder management, steering committee governance, and senior management reporting capabilities.
• Experience managing technology vendors and system integrators, including deliverables, commercials, performance, risks, and escalations.
• Experience overseeing testing, release management, production cutover, service transition, and postimplementation stabilization.
• Strong leadership, communication, negotiation, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to independently lead high-visibility technology programs in an onsite, multicultural client environment.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration, Finance, or a related discipline.

Job Snapshot

Job ID

JOB_8658

Department

Data and Technology Services

Location

ETV -SEZ1, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience

10 - 15 Years

Employee Type

Direct Contractor