Senior IT Risk Project Manager

Senior IT Risk Project Manager | Financial Services & Technology

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Modernization as a Service (MaaS) is a cross-functional practice that supports all business verticals within the company.

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We are seeking a Senior IT Risk Project Manager to join our project for a leading US financial institution.

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Responsibilities:

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- Ensure successful delivery of projects

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- Achieve financial targets

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- Manage stakeholders' expectations

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- Drive presales & business development activities

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- People management activities

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- Project manager activities:

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1. Pre-sale

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2. Contracting

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3. Project start

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4. Project Planning and Execution

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5. Team Management

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6. Self-management

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Mandatory Skills Description:

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Core project management:

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- 7+ years of professional experience in software development projects and management

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- 5+ years of experience in large scale Project/Program management

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- Proven track record in complex projects with global, distributed teams

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- People management experience for 20+ FTEs

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- Good understanding of program financials and reporting

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- Good understanding of project manager areas of responsibility:

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Project Planning

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Backlog prioritization, detailing and decomposition

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Understanding of SDLC and ability to build/optimize project processes

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Communication with the team, client

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Understanding of motivation factors

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Team Management

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Result-oriented

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Working with feedback: provide and receive

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Risk management:

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- Demonstrable experience running IT risk, security, or compliance-driven programmes - not only feature delivery

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- Ability to build and maintain a risk register: identification, qualification, scoring, mitigation planning, ownership assignment, and escalation

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- Experience coordinating remediation programmes across multiple engineering teams (patching, vulnerability closure, control implementation) and tracking them to measurable closure

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- Comfortable operating with audit, InfoSec, and compliance stakeholders; experience preparing evidence and status for governance forums or steering committees

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- Working knowledge of at least one control or risk framework (NIST CSF/RMF, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, SOC 2, or similar)

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- Ability to translate technical findings into business impact and risk-based prioritization for senior stakeholders

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Soft skills and education:

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- Verbal and written business communication skills

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- Presentation skills, including to executive and risk-committee audiences

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- Negotiation skills

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- Master's Degree in computer science or similar education

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- Certification advantage: PMP / PRINCE2 / SAFe, plus one of CISSP, CISM, CRISC, or CISA

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Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

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- Familiarity with security vulnerability management: CVE/CVSS, severity triage, SLA-based remediation cycles

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- Exposure to penetration testing engagements - scoping, vendor coordination, findings review, retest tracking

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- Understanding of AI/GenAI risk: model and data governance, AI risk scans and assessments, prompt injection and data leakage exposure, third-party AI tooling review

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- Awareness of emerging AI governance and regulation (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF) and how it lands on delivery teams

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- Understanding of secure SDLC practices: SAST/DAST/SCA, dependency and supply chain risk, threat modelling

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Apply now and take the next step in your project management career.