IT Project Manager
ZainCash.com
Office
Baghdad, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq
Full Time
. Project Coordination & Tracking
- Coordinate multiple IT projects covering applications, infrastructure, integrations, and security initiatives.
- Maintain consolidated project schedules, milestone plans, and dependency maps across all initiatives.
- Track and report progress against agreed timelines and deliverables.
- Highlight and escalate risks, blockers, or scope changes to responsible owners.
- Support project planning and alignment sessions with internal and external stakeholders.
- Maintain portfolio visibility for the IT leadership team.
. Stakeholder Communication
- Serve as the central coordination point between IT delivery teams, business stakeholders, and external vendors.
- Consolidate project updates into structured reports and dashboards for management review.Facilitate clear, consistent communication across departments to ensure responsibilities and timelines are well understood.
- Coordinate and prepare materials for steering committees, ensuring updates are factual and actionable.
- Follow up on vendor deliverables and ensure commitments are properly tracked.
. Planning & Alignment
- Support project initiation by coordinating definition of scope, objectives, and success criteria.
- Ensure alignment between IT sub-teams and business owners on priorities and dependencies.
- Monitor workload distribution across IT functions to identify resource or schedule conflicts.
- Maintain synchronization between projects and the overall IT roadmap.
. Risk & Issue Coordination
- Identify and document project risks and issues in collaboration with responsible teams.
- Track mitigation actions and ensure timely follow-up.
- Ensure scope changes, delays, or impacts are properly evaluated and communicated.
- Participate in post-project review sessions to capture lessons learned and improvement actions.
. Documentation & Reporting
- Maintain standardized documentation including project charters, progress reports, and closure summaries.
- Ensure project data accuracy in trackers and dashboards.Prepare periodic reports for IT management summarizing progress, risks, and expected outcomes.
Requirements
Qualifications & Experience
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project management certification preferred.
Experience:
- 5–8 years of experience in managing or coordinating IT-related projects within fintech, banking, or telecom environments
- Proven track record of handling multiple concurrent projects across technical and business teams.
- Exposure to enterprise platforms such as Core Banking systems, Middleware technologies, and Digital Channel applications.
- Experience coordinating infrastructure rollouts, software deployments, or system integration projects within enterprise IT environments.
- Experience preparing and maintaining project plans, schedules, risk logs, and progress reports using project tracking tools.
- Experience with software delivery life cycles (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid) and related documentation practices
Languages:
- Fluent in English and Arabic (written and spoken).