Sr. Project Manager (Data Engineering & Banking)
Summary
Senior project manager delivering enterprise-level data engineering and banking technology projects end to end — owning scope, budgets, P&L, and cross-functional Agile/Scrum teams while ensuring regulatory compliance. Requires deep data platform exposure (Snowflake, Databricks, ETL/ELT) and banking/financial services domain expertise.
Sr. Project Manager (Data Engineering & Banking)
End-to-End Project Delivery: Manage project scopes, timelines, budgets, and resource allocation for enterprise-level Data Engineering and Banking technology initiatives.
Technical & Strategic Leadership: Collaborate closely with Data Architects, Data Engineers, and Business Leaders to define project roadmaps, solution architecture strategies, and delivery schedules.
Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary liaison between executive business sponsors, technology partners, and third-party vendors.
Risk & Issue Management: Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate technical, financial, and operational risks across data initiatives.
Regulatory & Compliance Oversight: Ensure project outputs conform to strict banking regulations, data privacy laws (e.g., GDPR, local central bank guidelines), and data governance standards.
Financial Accountability: Own the overall project budget, profit & loss (P&L), financial forecasting, and resource budgeting.
Team Leadership & Mentorship: Lead cross-functional Agile/Scrum teams, conduct retrospectives, and mentor junior PMs and PMO team members.
Requirements
Experience: 8+ years in IT project management, with a strong focus on delivering large-scale Data Engineering solutions (e.g., Data Warehousing, Big Data, Cloud Data Lakes, Snowflake, Databricks, ETL/ELT).
Domain Expertise: Deep domain knowledge in Banking / Financial Services (e.g., Core Banking, Risk Management, Regulatory Reporting, Wealth Management, or Payments).
Methodologies: Expert knowledge of Agile (Scrum/Kanban), SAFe, and traditional Waterfall project management methodologies.
Tools: Expert in Jira, Confluence, MS Project, Advanced Excel, and BI tools (Power BI / Tableau).
Certifications (Required/Highly Preferred): PMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe Agilist, or Certified ScrumMaster (CSM).
Unison Consulting established in the year 2012 in Singapore. We provide technology consulting, systems implementation, and integrations service to Asia Pacific customers. We help transform enterprise data in actionable insights. Our consultants have wide range of functional expertise within Banking and Financial services spectrum, working closely with clients to anticipate, illuminate and overcome complex business challenges.
Our objective is to be a one-stop solution provider all enterprise business intelligence and data warehousing needs of organizations.
Our mission is to consistently deliver our services to our clients in a cost-effective way without compromising the quality.
Our current clients include - DBS, OCBC, Standard Chartered Bank and Maybank.
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