Technical Project Manager - card payments

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Role: Technical Project Manager

Start date: ASAP

Contract duration: 3 months + extensions

Location: Northampton

Role description

* Establish and anchor a project to facilitate transition to the target state and decrease a project's deployment risks

* Manage activities in a change project. Includes engaging stakeholders, from both the business and Technology in the change effort and ensuring they are ready to adopt the coming changes

* Project planning, estimating, budgeting, resource allocation, monitoring, controlling, benefits realisation, closing and lessons learned

* This will require an advanced level of communication skill and the ability to negotiate and influence to get the right outcome for the business area sponsoring the change

* The role holder will be responsible for quality on the project, with the responsibility of ensuring that the project has the relevant documentation

* The development of the plan will require the ability to challenge and question stakeholders across many areas of the business, analyse the inputs and build a detailed and complex plan

* Plan and support labour relations and/or employee relations discussions, as necessary. Chair regular progress reviews of the project and report progress

Essential Skills

* Experience as Project Manager working in a technology environment

* Knowledge of the card payments industry and overall understanding of the Financial Services Industry

* Demonstrable experience of defining and leading projects for creation of new products and features to successful closure

* Able to conceive original and practical solutions to complex problems

Desirable Skills

* Able to show resilience in an environment which is continuously changing due to the transformation of technology

* Knowledge of Agile methods (Kanban/Scrum) and tools (Jira, etc...).

* PM or Agile certification

* Experience with Cloud Technologies