Overview:
The Program Manager is responsible for leading and coordinating a portfolio of IT projects within the Insurance domain, ensuring alignment with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and technology strategy. This role provides governance, drives delivery excellence, and ensures that all projects within the program meet scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations. Deep domain knowledge in Insurance in multiple concurrent projects.
Key Responsibilities
Program Leadership & Governance
- Lead a multi-project program consisting of several concurrent IT projects within insurance, or financial technology domains.
- Provide direction, support, and performance management to assigned Project Managers.
- Establish program governance frameworks, reporting structures, and delivery standards.
- Ensure compliance with financial services regulatory requirements (e.g., AML, PCI-DSS, MAS/BNM guidelines depending on region).
Planning & Delivery Management
- Develop and maintain integrated program plans covering timelines, dependencies, resources, risks, and budgets.
- Monitor project progress and drive corrective actions to address issues, delays, or deviations.
- Coordinate cross-functional delivery teams including business analysts, developers, QA, infrastructure, security, and vendor partners.
- Facilitate decision-making across stakeholders and escalate critical issues as needed.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Serve as the primary point of contact for senior leadership and business sponsors.
- Present program status, dashboards, financial updates, and risk assessments.
- Build strong relationships with business units, operations, compliance, technology leads, and external vendors.
Risk, Compliance & Quality Assurance
- Identify, assess, and manage program-level risks, dependencies, and constraints.
- Ensure project deliverables adhere to internal policies, cybersecurity standards, and regulatory expectations.
- Conduct program reviews, retrospectives, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Financial & Resource Management
- Own program budget planning, forecasting, and cost control.
- Optimize resource allocation across multiple projects.
- Support procurement and vendor management activities, including contract negotiation and performance evaluation.
Requirement:
- 10+ years of experience in IT project/program management, 5 years in Insurance domain.
- Managing large complex Application development project with the team size of 50+ members.
Technical & Domain Skills
- Strong experience of SDLC methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Hybrid).
Certifications (Preferred)
- PMP, or PRINCE2
- Agile certifications (CSM, SAFe, PMI-ACP)
