Oracle Banking Project Manager - Egypt (Contractor)

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain integrated project plans covering scope, milestones, resources, budgets and dependencies.
• Define deliverables, acceptance criteria and governance arrangements with business and technology stakeholders.
• Coordinate requirements workshops, fit-gap assessments and solution decisions across banking operations, finance, risk, compliance and IT.
• Manage implementation workstreams covering product configuration, extensions, interfaces, reporting and operational readiness.
• Oversee integrations with banking channels, payment systems, general ledger and other enterprise applications, coordinating API, middleware, batch and interface delivery.
• Lead data migration planning, including mapping, cleansing, trial migrations, data quality validation, reconciliation and business sign-off.
• Oversee system integration testing, user acceptance testing and performance testing, ensuring effective defect prioritisation and resolution.
• Maintain project risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, driving mitigation, contingency planning and timely escalation.
• Manage scope changes through documented impact assessments and formal approval processes.
• Manage implementation partners and vendors against statements of work, contractual commitments, delivery milestones and quality expectations.
• Lead progress meetings and coordinate delivery using Waterfall, Agile or hybrid methodologies, as appropriate.
• Act as the primary project contact for bank stakeholders, Oracle product and support teams, implementation partners and third-party system integrators.
• Manage stakeholder expectations, resolve competing priorities and communicate effectively with senior executives and business unit leaders.
• Provide clear reporting to sponsors and steering committees on delivery progress, financial performance, risks and decisions required.
• Coordinate user training, process changes, operating procedures and transition to production support.
• Lead cutover rehearsals, go-live readiness reviews, contingency planning and post-go-live stabilisation.
• Ensure applicable regulatory, information security, access control, audit and business continuity requirements are addressed throughout delivery.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• 12-20 years of relevant professional experience, including demonstrated experience leading core banking implementation or transformation projects.
• Hands-on project delivery experience with Oracle Banking Products, including Oracle FLEXCUBE.
• Strong understanding of banking processes, including customer onboarding, accounts, deposits, lending, payments and financial reconciliation.
• Experience managing complex integrations, data migration, testing and production cutover.
• Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams, cross-functional teams and external implementation partners.
• Strong project planning, budgeting, resource management, risk management and stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to translate technical and functional issues into clear business impacts, options and decisions.
• Experience managing vendor commitments, statements of work and change requests.
• Strong leadership, negotiation, conflict resolution and escalation management skills.
• Proficiency with MS Project, Jira or equivalent project delivery tools, with experience using collaboration and reporting tools such as Confluence, Excel or Power BI.
• Experience working within Waterfall, Agile or hybrid delivery environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP, PRINCE2 or an equivalent project management certification.
• Experience delivering at least one Oracle FLEXCUBE implementation through go-live and stabilisation.
• Experience with legacy core banking replacement, multi-country rollouts or phased implementations.
• Experience working with Oracle product teams or Oracle FLEXCUBE implementation partners.
• Exposure to regulatory requirements, audit controls, information security and business continuity in banking environments.
• Experience supporting organisational change, user adoption and operational readiness during banking transformation programmes.