Infrastructure Manager (Banking, 1-year renewable contract)

Dear Applicant,

If you or someone you know is interested, please send the CV directly to [email protected] (most preferred, as I may overlook some CVs due to the high volume).

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available at this time.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of multiple IT infrastructure projects and programs, ensuring alignment with governance standards, timelines, budgets, and quality expectations.
• Own project planning, execution, tracking, reporting, and delivery governance across assigned portfolios.
• Ensure consistent adoption of project management methodologies, tools, and best practices.
• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of Project Managers across onshore and offshore locations.
• Allocate resources, balance workloads, and set delivery priorities across multiple concurrent projects.
• Provide coaching, performance guidance, and capability development to enhance team effectiveness and delivery discipline.
• Act as a deputy to the Team Lead in leadership forums, governance reviews, and stakeholder engagements.
• Support team strategy development, delivery roadmaps, resource planning, budgeting, and capacity management.
• Engage with business stakeholders, senior management, vendors, and delivery teams to ensure alignment and transparency.
• Consolidate and present project status updates, key risks, issues, dependencies, and escalations to leadership.
• Proactively identify delivery risks, bottlenecks, and inter-project dependencies, driving timely resolution and escalation where required.
• Ensure adherence to quality standards, audit requirements, compliance controls, and governance frameworks.
• Oversee vendor delivery performance and accountability against agreed service levels and project objectives.
• Ensure all projects comply with organizational security, regulatory, and governance requirements.

Key Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of IT Project Management experience, including at least 2–3 years in a leadership, supervisory, or team management capacity.
• Proven experience managing multiple concurrent IT infrastructure projects and programs.
• Strong track record of leading, mentoring, and developing teams of Project Managers.
• Solid experience in stakeholder management, vendor management, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience working within banking, financial services, or other highly regulated environments.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex escalations, resolve conflicts, and influence senior stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and leadership skills, with the ability to engage effectively at executive level.
• Strong ownership mindset with a proactive, results-driven approach to delivery leadership.
• Good understanding of IT infrastructure domains, including network, server, cloud, and data centre environments.
• Familiarity with Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid delivery methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP and/or PRINCE2 certification.
• ITIL certification.
• Experience operating within APAC regulatory environments.
• Exposure to large-scale enterprise infrastructure transformation programs.