Senior Project Manager
Great Eastern
- Singapore
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Own the delivery of projects assigned, ensuring timely completion and within allocated budget.
- Manage project lifecycle, from pre-project budgeting, through the Delivery Lifecycle (e.g. Requirements, Design, Development, Testing, Security, Audits, etc.), to post-implementation maintenance, in accordance with Great Eastern’s Project Management Processes and Methodologies.
- Participate in pre-project activities such as estimation of project efforts, budgeting, preparation of high level project plan and timeline, resource acquisition, and staffing the project team.
- Liaise and facility across groups of business owners, IT system SMEs, IT Architects, Risk & Compliance, IT Security and QA to meet agreed project objectives.
- Monitor and track progress of projects and ability to keep abreast of various project statuses, issues and risks to ensure smooth execution.
- Analyze and highlight project risks, dependencies and develop any relevant risk mitigation plans.
- Maintain project issue register to keep close match of the project issues till their resolution.
- Being able to manage performance of both direct and non-direct reports in the project team, providing guidance in issue resolution, and mediate conflicts.
- Manage project stakeholder’s expectation by understanding customers' needs and providing tangible solutions given the time, budget and resources (e.g. Infrastructure, Software Stack, etc.) available.
- Manage and work closely with outsourced vendors, in-house contractors, business partners and data centre vendors involved in projects.
- Provide periodic updates on project progress to sponsors and escalate project issues unresolvable promptly.
- Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.
- Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company.
- Highlights any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or IT related disciplines.
- Certified Scrum Master &/or Project Manager (PMP), with at least 10 years of experience in delivering IT projects and 3 years in managing project using agile practice.
- Good track records in delivering large multi-country customer facing web/mobile application with internal backoffice portal experience in the last 5 years will be advantageous.
- Experience in managing projects which involve technologies related to API, Microservices, and/or Containerization platforms, web/mobile technologies (such as Java, AngularJS, VueJS), native/hybrid mobile application framework (such as Cordova), Analytics/Web SaaS tools (like Google Firebase, Google Analytics, etc.) and application monitoring tool (such as Dynatrace) will be advantageous.
- Well-versed with IT Security and Audit processes (E.g. OWASP, CMMI, etc.).
- Conversant in using project management and collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Kanban Boards, Microsoft Project, etc. is required.
- Strong critical thinking, problem solving and analytical skills.
- Strong inter-personal and leadership skill in developing and managing high performance project teams and fostering teamwork.
- Excellent in verbal and written communication skills.
- High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork.
- Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes.