IT Project Manager at Major Japanese Bank

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate disaster recovery testing for multiple cloud-hosted applications, ensuring testing activities are planned, scheduled, executed, and documented in accordance with program requirements.
• Partner with application owners, cloud engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, business continuity, and business stakeholders to establish testing scope, objectives, recovery scenarios, and success criteria.
• Develop and maintain integrated testing schedules, project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and remediation tracking across a large application portfolio.
• Facilitate test planning meetings, readiness reviews, test execution bridges, post-test reviews, and governance forums.
• Coordinate recovery validation activities and ensure achievement of established RTO, RPO, and resiliency objectives.
• Track testing compliance, evidence collection, documentation quality, action plans, and regulatory readiness requirements.
• Communicate testing status, risks, issues, and recovery results to senior management and executive stakeholders through regular reporting and governance updates.
• Drive cross-functional coordination to resolve testing challenges, resource constraints, dependency impacts, and scheduling conflicts.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives related to cloud resiliency, recovery automation, testing standards, and governance processes.
• Maintain accurate inventory, testing metrics, dashboards, and program reporting for dozens of applications across multiple testing cycles.

Skills & Qualifications

• Proven experience in IT Project Management, Technical Program Management, Disaster Recovery, Technology Resilience, Infrastructure Operations, or Technology Governance.
• Strong understanding of cloud technologies, disaster recovery principles, application recovery testing, business continuity concepts, and operational resilience frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams, stakeholders, and project dependencies within a complex technology environment.
• Experience developing and maintaining project plans, status reporting, risk management artifacts, executive communications, and governance documentation.
• Proficiency with project and workflow management tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, ServiceNow, and SharePoint.
• Excellent communication, organizational, stakeholder management, and facilitation skills.
• Experience within financial services, regulated industries, or large-scale enterprise technology organizations preferred.
• PMP, Agile, Scrum, ITIL, Business Continuity, or related certification preferred.