IT Portfolio Manager Emirates Islamic Bank

Emirates Islamic Bank is presently accepting applications from suitable candidate for the job role of IT Portfolio Manager. The role holder is responsible to strategically manage and align the bank’s IT projects and investments with its business objectives to optimize performance, mitigate risks, and drive innovation and growth within Emirates Islamic Bank.

Responsibilities of IT Portfolio Manager

• Facilitate delivery of strategic initiatives to address the bank’s needs post thorough business needs analysis.
• Assist the project sponsor/owner in managing the business activities and tasks within the project.
• Govern regular Problems / Production issues prioritization session b/w Business and Group IT.
• Ensure escalated issues impacting bank Customers, Profitability, and Reputation are handled by respective Group IT teams in a timely manner and follow-up till satisfactory closure.
• Engage with internal customers and external entities within the scope of the projects.
• Evaluate and implement solutions based on business requirement following the banks standard methodology and policies.
• Manage Business, Group IT team, Project board and Steering Committee.
• Be accountable for creation of detailed business requirements documentation.
• Take appropriate actions if deadline, quality or budget are significantly at risk.
• Systematic analyses and draws accurate conclusions based on evidence and addressing the root cause till closure.
• Proactively offers assistance / manages to minimize escalations to avoid adverse impact on business operations.
• Establish strong relationships with stakeholders to understand strategic, tactical and operational challenges, define technology solutions to address Business objectives.
• Be directly accountable for multiple projects at one time, and be able to coordinate with respective technology project managers and business teams professionally.
• Conduct requirement workshops and recommend business solutions aligned with technology strategy.
• Provide strong portfolio/project management expertise, manage demand management, and address operational challenges, conduct status update meetings, and oversee the technology interests of Business units.
• Manage change requests, enhancements and defects.

Requirements of IT Portfolio Manager

• University degree (preferably in IT / Engineering field).
• 5 years of similar job experience, including Experience in high-end Tech companies, Banks, Consulting firms.
• Experience in implementing full life cycle of a project.

Skills and Knowledge

• Prince 2, PMP, ITIL (Desirable).
• Good understanding of the high level technical application architecture and design.
• Good understanding of the security, compliance and Audit requirements.
• International exposure will be an added advantage.

Job Benefits

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