Project Manager - Technical Readiness Lead
On-siteDublin, Leinster, Ireland
Job Summary
Lead technical readiness planning across application onboarding, environment setup, configuration, and system dependency management. Coordinate due diligence, requirements gathering, and UAT/model office dependencies for client interfaces and connectivity. Work with Business Readiness, Operations, Change Management, and Development teams to identify technical gaps, manage risks, and ensure go-live readiness for access, fund setup, and reporting matrices. Support execution plan development, documentation, and progress reporting to governance forums while maintaining evidence of completed controls and sign-offs. Deliver technical readiness plans, checklists, and risk logs to ensure seamless transition and handover in regulated financial services environments.
Required Qualifications
- Undergraduate degree or relevant professional qualification
- PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent project/programme management certification
- Experience with implementation lifecycle, SDLC documentation, UAT, model office, transition planning or business readiness activity
- Knowledge of compliance, AML, data protection, financial crime prevention, client asset or regulated operating environments
- Experience with Transfer Agency applications, iFast or similar financial services platforms, fund setup, interfaces, reporting setup or product testing
- Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to simplify complex delivery information for senior stakeholders and clients
- Strong organisation, prioritisation and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams under tight deadlines
- Proactive problem solving, issue resolution, escalation management and the ability to create momentum across teams
- Confident use of Microsoft Office tools, project plans, status reports, RAID logs, runbooks and governance materials
- Ability to bridge business requirements and technical delivery, ensuring requirements are clear, testable and traceable
- Strong analytical and documentation skills, particularly for requirements, gaps, dependencies, access, configuration and test readiness
- Experience delivering complex client-facing onboarding, conversion, launch or transformation projects in a regulated financial services environment
- Strong project delivery discipline, including planning, dependency management, risk and issue management, reporting and stakeholder communications
- Experience operating in a matrix environment with multiple internal functions, senior stakeholders, client contacts and third-party dependencies
- Practical experience managing documentation, sign-offs, governance packs, workstream status and delivery artefacts through the project lifecycle
- Experience coordinating technical, application, configuration, testing or environment readiness activity in financial services onboarding/change programmes
- Experience supporting UAT, model office, SDLC documentation, implementation sessions, defect triage or production readiness activities
- Understanding of Transfer Agency operations, mutual fund products, operating models, fund setup, client servicing and distribution channels
- Familiarity with regulated financial services controls, quality standards, operational risk, legal/risk/compliance review and client governance
- Awareness of onboarding concepts including due diligence, gap analysis, TOM design, fund flow, reporting matrix, SLA/KPI/MIS and handover planning
- Knowledge of TA applications, fund setup, client interfaces, reporting matrices, operational applications, model office and testing dependencies
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