Senior IT Project Manager Bilingual EN/FR

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex, multi-million-dollar transformation programs within a highly regulated financial services environment. This role requires an accomplished delivery executive capable of operating at C-level while maintaining full accountability for large-scale, mission-critical initiatives across complex enterprise technology landscapes.

The successful candidate will bring demonstrable experience managing high-budget core banking modernization programs, multi-vendor ecosystems, regulatory scrutiny, and enterprise-wide transformation. You will assume end-to-end ownership of governance, financial stewardship, risk containment, and structured delivery execution in environments characterized by operational criticality, legacy complexity, and stringent compliance obligations.

• Enterprise Vision & Program Architecture: Define and institutionalize a multi-year transformation vision aligned with corporate strategy, translating executive mandates into structured roadmaps, phased releases, and quantifiable value realization metrics.
• C-Suite & Regulatory Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary interface for executive committees, board members, regulators, and external auditors; manage escalations, align strategic priorities, and maintain executive confidence throughout the transformation lifecycle.
• Enterprise Change & Operating Model Redesign: Lead organizational impact assessments, process re-engineering, adoption frameworks, and post-go-live stabilization to ensure operational resilience and sustainable business transformation.
• Matrix & Multi-Vendor Delivery Leadership: Direct cross-functional teams comprising enterprise architects, domain leads, engineering managers, infrastructure specialists, and third-party integrators within a federated governance structure.
• Strategic Business Translation & Political Acumen: Convert complex technical initiatives into measurable business outcomes (cost optimization, regulatory risk mitigation, operational efficiency), while navigating enterprise politics and competing stakeholder interests.
• Decisive Leadership Under Critical Conditions: Provide calm, data-driven executive leadership during high-pressure phases including dress rehearsals, production cutovers, audit cycles, and regulatory checkpoints.

• Core Banking Platform Modernization: Deep expertise in core banking ecosystems, including modular architectures, service-oriented and event-driven designs, API enablement, and integration across payments, lending, reporting, and digital channels.
• Enterprise Data Migration & Reconciliation Governance: Design and oversee large-scale data migration frameworks covering extraction, transformation, cleansing, reconciliation controls, and audit traceability within high-volume transactional systems.
• Regulatory & Information Security Compliance: Ensure full adherence to financial regulations, data protection requirements, internal control frameworks, and information security standards across all program phases.
• Strategic Vendor & Contract Management: Lead commercial governance across multiple technology service providers, including SLA management, performance monitoring, dispute resolution, and contract compliance.
• Legacy Decommissioning & Target-State Architecture: Manage phased migration from legacy platforms to next-generation systems, mitigating technical debt, operational risk, and integration dependencies.

• End-to-End Transformation Accountability: Own the complete lifecycle of enterprise core banking transformation programs — from business case validation and mobilization through design, build, test, migration, cutover, and hypercare.
• Robust Governance & Financial Oversight: Establish structured program governance frameworks, including steering committees, budget control, RAID management, dependency tracking, and executive reporting.
• Testing & Quality Assurance Strategy: Define and supervise comprehensive validation frameworks, including SIT, UAT, non-functional testing (performance, resilience, security), and regulatory certification.
• Mission-Critical Cutover Command: Maintain direct accountability for meticulous cutover planning, rollback strategies, command center execution, and operational readiness to minimize disruption in live banking environments.
• Methodology Mastery (Agile / Hybrid / Waterfall): Apply and tailor scaled Agile, hybrid, and traditional methodologies to balance regulatory rigor with adaptive delivery practices.
• Advanced Risk Mitigation & Complex Problem Resolution: Demonstrate superior analytical capability to proactively identify systemic risks, manage cross-program interdependencies, and implement corrective actions safeguarding scope, schedule, and financial integrity.

This opportunity is suited for a senior delivery leader with a proven track record in managing multi-million-dollar transformation programs within complex, high-availability financial services environments, capable of combining executive gravitas with deep technical and operational understanding.