Payments Project Manager

Job DescriptionPayments Project Manager with 10+ years of overall IT experience, with strong project/program management experience in Banking and Payments.Roles & ResponsibilitiesKey ResponsibilitiesLead 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 SkillsStrong 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 KnowledgeISO 20022ACH / Wire / Real-Time PaymentsSWIFT and payment messagingCommercial Banking PaymentsPayment processing, reconciliation, exceptions, and settlementPayment modernization/transformation programsThe 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