# Project Manager

**Company:** [TAWANTECH](null/companies/piLvdXFhcyDhza9LCgay1S.md)
**Location:** Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Full-time
**Department:** IT

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## Description

Purpose:

To lead the end-to-end planning and delivery of technology projects, ensuring agreed scope, timelines, budget, quality, risks, and business objectives are effectively managed and achieved.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

-   Manage technology projects from initiation and planning through execution, deployment, and closure. 

-   Define project scope, objectives, milestones, deliverables, timelines, and resource requirements. 

-   Coordinate across business, engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, operations, and vendors. 

-   Monitor progress and ensure delivery against agreed milestones and commitments. 

-   Identify, assess, and manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and changes. 

-   Manage project budgets and track financial performance. 

-   Manage vendor deliverables, SLAs, and commercial dependencies. 

-   Facilitate governance meetings and provide clear status reporting, including to SteerCo. 

-   Ensure deliverables meet agreed quality, change-governance, and regulatory requirements. 

-   Coordinate readiness, implementation, and transition activities for production deployment. 

-   Maintain project documentation, decisions, risks, actions, and lessons learned. 

-   Escalate critical risks and delivery challenges in a timely manner. 

Line ownership: 

-   Own and prioritize the product backlog for assigned squads. 

-   Translate business objectives into epics, features, and clearly written user stories with acceptance criteria. 

-   Define and communicate product roadmap and release scope. 

-   Make day-to-day scope and trade-off decisions on behalf of the business. 

-   Ensure regulatory and compliance requirements are reflected in backlog items. 

-   Accept completed work against defined acceptance criteria. 

-   Act as primary point of contact between squads and business stakeholders. 

People Management:

-   Participate in the identification and recruitment of key talent for the department. 

-   Manage, guide, and support direct reports in line with set policies and procedures. 

-   Set performance objectives, provide support, appraise the team, and give regular feedback. 

-   Uphold a high-performance working environment and promote the organization’s values.

## Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS:

-   Bachelor’s Degree required; Master’s Degree preferred. 

-   6+ years in technology delivery, including end-to-end ownership of complex projects. 

-   Experience owning a product backlog and working directly with Agile delivery teams. 

-   Payments, banking, or regulated financial services experience.. 

-   Professional Certificates (PMP or PRINCE2, plus CSPO/PSPO or equivalent product certification)