• Lead end-to-end infrastructure project delivery from scope definition and planning through deployment, validation, transition, and closure.

• Define and maintain project scope, delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), governance forums, and status reporting.

• Coordinate infrastructure readiness across development, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, production and other environments.

• Align cross-functional teams across Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Platform, Cloud Security, Cloud Governance, Engineering, application delivery, and operations.

• Facilitate regular project meetings and delivery stand-ups, maintain clear ownership of actions, and drive timely resolution of issues and dependencies.

• Identify, assess, escalate, and track project risks, issues, changes, and constraints, with clear impact analysis, mitigation actions, recovery plans, and revised timelines where required.

• Maintain effective stakeholder communication and provide accurate, transparent reporting on progress, decisions, delivery risks, and change impacts.

• Plan and coordinate deployment activities, including implementation sequencing, post-deployment validation, issue investigation, and service readiness checks.

• Ensure required project and service documentation is completed and reviewed, including reference architecture, security baselines, design guidelines, development guidelines, and operational guidelines.

• Support infrastructure strategy and migration planning for APAC cloud initiatives and other strategic technology programmes.

• Ensure delivery activities comply with SMBC project management standards, internal policies, risk and compliance requirements, and the Bank Code of Conduct.

• Provide infrastructure project management support for core banking initiatives, ensuring effective coordination between programme, application, infrastructure, and operations teams.

• Apply agile delivery practices, including iterative planning, prioritisation, delivery tracking, and regular stakeholder review, while maintaining required Bank governance and controls.

• Coordinate project resources across multiple infrastructure domains, identify capacity or skill gaps early, and align ownership and sequencing to avoid delivery issues.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in infrastructure project management, technology programme delivery, or a related role.

• Demonstrated experience managing complex, cross-functional infrastructure projects with multiple environments, dependencies, stakeholders, and delivery teams.

• Practical knowledge of cloud infrastructure and enterprise platform delivery, preferably including Microsoft Azure, container platforms such as Azure Red Hat OpenShift, and event-streaming platforms such as Confluent Kafka.

• Strong project planning and governance skills, including milestone management, WBS tracking, dependency management, risk and issue management, change control, and management reporting.

• Ability to coordinate technical teams, application teams, security and governance functions, operations teams, and external vendors.

• Strong ownership, judgement, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to maintain delivery momentum under compressed timelines and changing priorities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain delivery status, risks, impacts, and required decisions clearly to technical and management stakeholders.

• High standards of integrity, transparency, accountability, and compliance in project execution and stakeholder management.

• Experience supporting core banking, cash management, or other business-critical banking technology programmes.

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate resources across multiple teams and manage competing priorities to prevent delivery gaps and issues.