Engagement Lead/IT Project Manager

Engagement Lead – Technology Resilience Assessment

Location: Singapore
Engagement Type: Contract / Consulting Assignment
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Duration: 6 months to start (highly extendable)
Only looking at immediately joiners up or up to 2 weeks notice (Mandatory)
Suitable candidates: ("IT Project Manager" OR "Technology Project Manager" OR "Infrastructure Project Manager" OR "IT Programme Manager" OR "Technology Programme Manager" OR "Engagement Manager")

Aim of the role: Someone who can coordinate a team of technical experts to assess whether a company's IT systems can survive major disruptions.
This person must have done such projects before. This is not going to be an operations role. It is a project. Therefore, consulting experience would be highly preferred

Technology platforms:

Strong understanding of one or more of:

• Infrastructure platforms
• Data Centres
• Cloud environments
• Networking
• Information Security
• IT Operations
• Disaster Recovery
• Technology Governance

The role is not expected to be a deep technical specialist but should be comfortable discussing technology topics with SMEs andstakeholders.

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Engagement Lead to support a technology resilience assessment for a large enterprise organisation.

The successful candidate will be responsible for coordinating assessment activities, managing stakeholder engagement, facilitating workshops and validation sessions, and ensuring the timely delivery of project milestones.

Acting as the primary day-to-day point of contact between the client and the assessment team, you will work closely with technology specialists, architects, consultants and business stakeholders to ensure the smooth execution of the engagement.

Key Responsibilities

Stakeholder & Engagement Management

• Serve as the primary onsite contact for the engagement.

• Coordinate activities across technology, operations, risk and business teams.

• Manage stakeholder expectations and maintain effective communication.

• Identify and escalate project risks, issues and dependencies.

Project & Assessment Coordination

• Coordinate assessment workstreams, schedules and key milestones.

• Manage information requests and follow up on outstanding documentation.

• Organise workshops, validation sessions and stakeholder discussions.

• Track action items and ensure timely completion of deliverables.

Governance & Reporting

• Maintain project plans, progress trackers and RAID logs.

• Prepare regular status reports and management updates.

• Support governance meetings and steering committee discussions.

• Coordinate review cycles and quality assurance activities.

Documentation & Delivery Support

• Coordinate the collection of technical architecture documents and assessment evidence.

• Maintain document repositories and track outstanding information.

• Support the preparation of assessment findings, recommendations and executive presentations.

• Work closely with consultants and technical subject matter experts throughout the engagement.

Requirements

• Minimum 8 years of experience in project management, programme management or engagement management.

• Proven experience supporting enterprise technology projects or consulting engagements.

• Strong stakeholder management and project coordination capabilities.

• Good understanding of one or more technology domains, including IT infrastructure, data centres, cloud environments, networking, information security, IT operations, disaster recovery or technology governance.

• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and managing complex project deliverables.

• Strong communication, facilitation, documentation and reporting skills.

• Comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders and working onsite in a client-facing environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in banking, financial services or other large enterprise environments.

• Exposure to technology resilience assessments, disaster recovery programmes, infrastructure transformation or enterprise architecture engagements.

• Professional certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, AgilePM, ITIL or Certified Scrum Master.

Skills

Preparation of Schedules, Liaising with cross functional teams, Report Writing, Technology Consulting, Associate Engagement, Demonstrate resilience, maintaining quality documentation, Project Risk Management, Business Risk Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Networking, Banking, Project Coordination, Stakeholder Engagement and Management, Stakeholder Management, Financial Services