IT Project Manager - (26000NN8)

Lead the framing and delivery of major payment and anti-fraud projects, with specific responsibility for the MOSAIC technical migration on LUCID, ensuring alignment between business needs, IT architecture, delivery governance, budget, risks and deployment quality.

Your Role in a Nutshell:

1. Project framing and solution definition

• Gather, understand and challenge requirements with business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Assess the end-to-end solution and, together with IT architects, define a coherent target architecture aligned with the information-system strategy.
• Identify all contributors and engage the relevant teams to provide estimates for their respective scopes.
• Consolidate budget, schedule, dependencies and risks, and present the framing conclusions to decision-making
• bodies.
• Translate the MOSAIC-to-LUCID migration objectives into a clear delivery roadmap, milestones, acceptance criteria and transition approach.

2. Delivery leadership and governance

• Define the project organisation and governance with business stakeholders, technical teams, the service centre and tribe management.
• Create alignment and commitment among the various stakeholders and contributors.
• Ensure that the required human and technical resources are available to achieve the objectives.
• Monitor delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, critical paths and corrective actions.
• Validate qualification, testing and deployment strategies.
• Maintain effective relationships between IT delivery teams and business ownership.
• Represent RBS in steering committees and other governance forums.
• Ensure the production of required deliverables and the execution of validation gates defined by the Group project
• methodology.
• Provide clear project reporting and budget monitoring.
• Drive continuous improvement in project management practices.

3. Risk, change and operational readiness

• Identify and manage delivery, architecture, data, security, compliance, resourcing and operational risks.
• Prepare escalation options and decision materials when scope, cost, quality or timelines are at risk.
• Coordinate readiness for migration, cutover, deployment, rollback and post-go-live support.
• Ensure appropriate communication and change management across France, Romania and other contributing locations

Profile

· Strong IT culture, including a sound understanding of enterprise information-system architecture, application development lifecycles, infrastructure and production constraints.

• Knowledge of payment processes and fraud-prevention challenges, enabling credible collaboration with business owners and domain experts
• Strong command of project-planning, governance, budget, risk, reporting and delivery-tracking tools and practices.
• Very good understanding of company activities, organisational constraints and user needs.
• Experience coordinating technical migration or transformation initiatives involving data platforms, interfaces, dependencies and operational continuity is highly valuable
• Professional English is required. French is a strong advantage for day-to-day collaboration with France-based stakeholders
• Synthesis and executive communication
• Strong interpersonal skills, active listening and clear communication
• Proactivity, sound judgement and conviction
• Ability to manage several projects or workstreams in parallel
• Strategic perspective and ability to step back from day-to-day detail

· Crisis management and calm decision-making under pressure

Collaboration Type: B2B