Project Manager with Payments

Position: Project Manager with Payments Experience

Location: Charlotte, NC

Duration: Long term contract

Job Description

Payments Project Manager with  8+ years of overall IT experience, with strong project/program management experience in Banking and Payments.

Roles & Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

·         Lead end-to-end delivery of Payments technology initiatives, from planning and requirements through implementation and production rollout.

·         Manage project scope, schedule, dependencies, risks, issues, resources, and delivery milestones.

·         Coordinate across Business, Product, Architecture, Development, QA, Infrastructure, Operations, and vendor teams.

·         Drive governance meetings, status reporting, RAID management, dependency tracking, and executive/client communications.

·         Partner with Business Analysts and Product teams to ensure business requirements and payment-processing needs are translated into executable delivery plans.

·         Coordinate application, integration, testing, certification, deployment, and production-readiness activities.

·         Identify delivery risks and blockers proactively and drive them to closure.

·         Manage Agile ceremonies, release planning, deliverables, and cross-team dependencies.

·         Provide concise project health, milestone, risk, and escalation reporting to senior stakeholders.

Required Skills

·         Strong Project/Program Management experience in Banking or Financial Services.

·         Hands-on experience managing Payments programs/projects.

·         Knowledge of payment-processing lifecycle and payment systems.

·         Strong Agile/Scrum delivery and project governance experience.

·         Excellent stakeholder management, communication, risk management, dependency management, and executive reporting skills.

·         Ability to manage distributed onsite/offshore technology teams.

·         Good understanding of enterprise applications, APIs, integrations, databases, and production environments.

Preferred Payments Knowledge

·         ISO 20022

·         ACH / Wire / Real-Time Payments

·         SWIFT and payment messaging

·         Commercial Banking Payments

·         Payment processing, reconciliation, exceptions, and settlement

·         Payment modernization/transformation programs

The commercial banking payments context is especially relevant because the internal BofA discussion specifically describes the area as commercial banking payment processing with a high-volume environment and emphasizes Java/Spring Boot, Oracle/database and infrastructure capabilities