Project Manager with Payments

Role: Project Manager with Payments

Location: Charolette, NC

Exp: 8+ years

Job Description

 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