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 team to integrate products into client sites.

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:

• Fluent in Spanish with the ability to travel across the UK and Europe, dependent on project requirement.
• 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 detailed contract review and associated governance.
• Prior experience implementing a product-based solution.
• Highly experienced in Agile (i.e., scrum, Kanban, DSDM) 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.
• 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.
• Commercial senior stakeholder management and client engagement with a focus on exceptional client satisfaction.
• Working with disparately located teams (both onshore and offshore) and within multi-vendor scenarios.
• Strong team leadership skills, especially in the context of large teams of consulting professionals.
• Comfortable working in a diverse, innovative, flexible, high ambitious and high growth environment.

Icon Solutions is a leading specialist provider of services and technology solutions that are simplifying banking transformation. 

Icon is the past, present and future of payments. With a proven record delivering mission-critical solutions for global institutions, it is driving the next-generation of banking and payments architecture. Icon combines industry-leading domain experts, services, accelerator assets and technology that empower customers to solve problems, fight complexity and embrace change.

Icon has applied its payments, technical and integration expertise to create IPF: a low-code, cloud-native, open-source technology platform to accelerate payments transformation.

Icon’s clients include leading global banks such as BNP Paribas, HSBC, NatWest and Lloyds Banking Group.