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The Manager runs the portfolio's day-to-day governance rhythm and keeps it accurate and on time, so the Senior Project Manager can concentrate on delivery leadership, the critical path and the strategic initiatives.\nThe Manager owns PMO processes, standards and day-to-day tracking, and can lead selected workstreams end to end. Portfolio priorities, scope and timeline re-baselining, escalations to the CEO, Group CEO and SteerCo, regulatory, contractual and commercial positions, and commitments made to counterparties stay with the Senior Project Manager.\n1. PMO governance and standards\nOwn the PMO governance framework: project lifecycle, stage gates, RACI, templates and reporting standards.\nMake sure every programme follows the framework, and close gaps with programme and squad leads.\nKeep one consolidated view of the portfolio: UAEPay, Acquiring, Card Issuance, IO Backbone, Onboarding, AaNI, Compliance, Merchant Reconciliation and new programmes as they start.\nImprove PMO processes and tools over time, and propose changes to the Senior Project Manager.\n2. Governance forums and reporting\nRun the governance calendar: programme meetings, workshops, the weekly Group CEO update and the bi-weekly SteerCos (UAEPay, Acquiring, Card Issuance).\nOwn the weekly Group CEO update and the SteerCo packs end to end, from collecting status data to a review-ready pack for the Senior Project Manager.\nMake sure agendas, pre-reads, minutes and action logs are issued on time for every forum.\nMaintain the PMO dashboards (milestones, actions, risks and change requests), and prepare ad-hoc analyses and board pack inputs.\n3. Action, risk and dependency management\nOwn the portfolio action tracker, and drive closure of open actions with internal teams and external counterparties, including banks, acquirers, card schemes and government entities.\nMaintain the RAID log (risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies) for each programme, and propose RAG ratings and mitigations to the Senior Project Manager.\nTrack cross-programme dependencies and flag slippage on the critical path early, with impact and options.\n4. Change control and document control\nRun the change control process: intake, logging, first-pass impact assessment and the change register.\nPrepare change request analysis (contract basis, scope, effort and timeline impact) for the Senior Project Manager's decision.\nOwn document control: versioning, filing and access for project documents, specifications, contracts and sign-offs.\nTrack NOC, contract and counterparty onboarding submissions through to approval.\n5. Regulatory and audit readiness\nOwn the evidence tracker for the CBUAE outsourcing and partnership findings remediation, and keep the evidence pack ready for review.\nCoordinate document packs for audit, compliance and scheme certification requests with Compliance, Risk and the programme teams.\nCollect and track counterparty onboarding documents.\n6. Workstream delivery and Agile support\nLead selected workstreams or smaller projects end to end, as assigned by the Senior Project Manager.\nSupport the move of every squad to one Agile/Scrum rhythm: sprint ceremonies, backlog hygiene and a shared definition of done.\nTrack sprint metrics, such as velocity, epic delivery and cross-squad dependencies, and report trends against the quarterly roadmap.\nRequirements\nEducation\nBachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, Finance or a related field.\nPMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner or an Agile certification (for example PSM I) is a strong advantage.\nExperience\n5-7 years in project, programme or PMO management, including at least 3 years running PMO governance or reporting for a portfolio.\nHas run governance forums and executive reporting for several programmes at once.\nHas led projects or workstreams end to end with internal teams and external vendors.\nExperience in banking, payments or fintech is a strong advantage.\nExperience working with UAE regulators or government entities is a strong advantage.\nTechnical and domain knowledge\nProgramme governance: stage gates, RAID management, change control, RACI, milestone and dependency tracking.\nAgile/Scrum delivery: ceremonies, backlog management and delivery metrics.\nProject and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, MS Project and SharePoint; advanced Excel and PowerPoint.\nPayments and fintech delivery: cards, acquiring, wallets, bank and government integrations.\nThe CBUAE regulatory context, including outsourcing and audit requirements, is an advantage.\nSkills\nStructured and rigorous: builds governance that teams actually follow.\nLeads through influence: gets results from programme, product, IT and compliance teams without managing them directly.\nClear executive writing and presentation skills; turns status data into concise CEO and SteerCo packs.\nConfident with senior stakeholders and external counterparties, and knows when to escalate.\nDiscreet with confidential, regulatory and commercial information.\nFluent English; Arabic is an advantage.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5211,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Digital Government","Custom Software Development"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-02T13:59:52Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":25,"reasons":["conf:1","win:early","comp:attention"],"computed_at":"2026-11-06T05:58:05Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/emaratech-manager-project-management-payments","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/emaratech-manager-project-management-payments.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-06T07:38:29Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":13606,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-07T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":77812},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=77812"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Femaratech-manager-project-management-payments"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Femaratech-manager-project-management-payments"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Femaratech-manager-project-management-payments"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/emaratech-manager-project-management-payments\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Femaratech-manager-project-management-payments"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3610498}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"emaratech.ae","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3610498},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); 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