Technical Project Manager Banking IT Operations (m/f/d)📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Halian is seeking a Technical Project Manager – Banking IT Operations to join their team in Riyadh. This role is responsible for leading complex IT infrastructure, security, and operations initiatives within a highly regulated banking environment. The position requires close collaboration with engineering teams, vendors, and business stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of mission-critical projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of IT infrastructure and operations projects within the banking sector.
• Develop detailed project plans, technical work breakdown structures, and dependency maps.
• Oversee project scope, schedules, risks, budgets, and resources across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Manage upgrades, migrations, and deployments with minimal business disruption, adhering to structured change management processes.
• Ensure project compliance with architectural, cybersecurity, and regulatory requirements.
• Implement standardized project delivery frameworks to enhance operational consistency.
• Oversee workstreams including collaboration platform upgrades, security control implementation, observability solutions, and cloud operations.
• Manage initiatives across servers, networks, storage, virtualization, and disaster recovery/business continuity environments.
• Manage vendors and external service partners, ensuring contractual and SLA compliance.
• Provide clear project reporting, risk updates, and audit responses to leadership and governance forums.
• Coordinate effectively across infrastructure, cloud, networking, application, and security teams.
• Enforce adherence to IT risk management, cybersecurity frameworks, and internal/external regulatory standards.
• Maintain project documentation, approvals, compliance evidence, and audit-ready artifacts.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5–10+ years of IT project management experience, preferably within the banking or financial services industry.
• Strong background in infrastructure, cloud, and cybersecurity project delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex technical initiatives concurrently.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field. A Master’s degree is considered a plus.

Technical and Project Management Skills

• Proficiency in enterprise collaboration systems, identity platforms, and directory services.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals, cloud platforms (Azure/AWS), and observability technologies.
• Familiarity with IT security controls, compliance standards, and virtualization platforms.
• Knowledge of ITSM processes aligned with ITIL.
• Expertise in project planning, RAID logs, governance reporting, and stakeholder engagement.
• Proficiency with project delivery tools such as MS Project, Azure DevOps, Jira, and Confluence.
• Certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, or knowledge of Agile methodologies are preferred.

Essential Attributes

• Strong leadership and communication abilities.
• Capability to translate complex technical information for executive stakeholders.
• High sense of ownership, strong analytical capability, and comfort working under pressure.

Work Details

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh.