Senior Project Manager

The Icon Payments Framework (IPF) provides institutions with faster and more cost-effective access to instant payments through an advanced and highly flexible payments specific platform which seamlessly integrates with core and back-office banking applications.

A Senior Project Manager is required to join our growing delivery team to work alongside the Delivery Director. The successful candidate must have proven experience of end-to-end management of technical onsite engagements, senior stakeholder management and working closely with an Agile feature-based product delivery teams to integrate products into client sites. Having worked in a product environment would also be an advantage.

As we work with senior stakeholders and technicians, on mission critical programs of work, the ability to engage positively on both a management and technical level, report succinctly and accurately are essential. Project dependent, travel will be required across the UK and Europe.

About you:

• Full life-cycle project management experience within a commercial B2B context.
• Financial Services domain knowledge, preferably in the real time payments space either within a bank or central infrastructure.
• Experienced in contract review and associated governance.
• Prior experience implementing a product-based solution.
• Willing to travel across the UK and Europe, dependent on project requirement.
• Highly experienced in Agile (i.e., scrum, Kanban) feature-based Product delivery and release management, with the ability to guide client resources in ways of working where needed.
• High level of proficiency in Jira/confluence - ability to effectively monitor, manage and report on internal and client project teams progress and velocity
• Experience in agile / waterfall blended approaches often found at tier 1 financial institutions.
• Project delivery experience using multiple project resources of in-house colleagues, clients and 3rd party partner resources developing a collaborative delivery ethic.
• Senior stakeholder management and client engagement with a focus on exceptional client satisfaction.
• Experience working with disparately located teams (both onshore, offshore and across time zones) within multi-vendor scenarios.
• Strong Leadership and Project experience using multiple using resources from in- house, client and 3rd party partner teams, developing a collaborative delivery ethic
• Whilst not essential, any bi-lingual capabilities, particularly across European countries would be advantageous

What do our Project Managers do?

• Manage all aspects of the icon project delivery including planning, resourcing, milestone tracking, risk, issue, financial and commercial management, reporting and customer satisfaction.
• Provide pragmatic project management guidance to clients and colleagues.
• Act as interface between Icon technology team, client teams and third-party vendors.
• Build effective working relationships with both delivery and business development organisations within Icon with the objective of finding opportunities to add value to the end client.

What do they enjoy the most?

• Ability to be a part of, and influence future growth of the delivery team at Icon.
• The collaboration with a customer to help achieve their business goals and implement long-term solutions.

About Us

Icon Solutions is a fintech company that has been designing and implementing state-of-the-art payments solutions since 2009.

Our core product - the Icon Payments Framework (IPF) - is an internationally proven payments development framework that is trusted by Tier 1 banks across the globe such as Citi, NatWest, UBS and BNP Paribas.

This combines with an international team of payments, architecture, data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) experts, who help clients navigate every step of their transformation journey.

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