It project manager- deployment

• Drive projects through the project lifecycle, ensuring clear entry/exit criteria at each stage
• Enforce readiness discipline, ensuring projects do not advance without required prerequisites or documented leadership risk acceptance
• Facilitate formal decisions at pre installation, go live, and closeout milestones
• Own active RAID management, including aging, accountability, and escalation in accordance with defined thresholds
• Surface business controlled risks early and ensure explicit leadership ownership and acceptance where required
• Treat escalation as a governance mechanism, not a failure condition
• Lead cross functional teams (IT Field Services, Infrastructure, Product, LOB partners, vendors) without formal authority, holding owners accountable to commitments
• Coordinate solution readiness across technical, operational, security, and compliance domains (PCI, Security, Banking, etc.)
• Maintain integrated project plans, schedules, and dependency tracking aligned to lifecycle stages
• Monitor cost, timeline, and scope impacts and initiate Project Change Requests (PCRs) when required
• Oversee deployment execution, go live support, stabilization, and formal closeout activities
• Provide dashboard driven visibility into status, risks, readiness, and decisions
• Prepare leadership ready materials focused on decisions required, not task status
• Act as a trusted liaison between IT and the business, reinforcing expectations and accountability

• Demonstrated experience managing projects within a structured lifecycle and governance model, not just task execution
• Proven ability to surface risk, drive escalation, and support leadership decision making under compressed timelines
• Experience operating in high visibility, high stakes deployments where readiness and risk tolerance must be explicitly managed
• Working knowledge of RAID management, readiness gating, and formal go live decision models
• Experience applying standardized delivery frameworks (e.g., PROCESS, stage gate, or equivalent governance models)
• Comfort enforcing process discipline while supporting speed to market objectives
• Strong executive communication skills with the ability to translate complex delivery risks into clear leadership decisions
• Ability to influence without authority and hold cross functional partners accountable
• PMP or similar certification remains a plus, but governance and execution maturity is the primary differentiator

PMP or similar certification