Senior IT Project Manager

Technologies we use

Operating system

• Windows

About the project

We are Optiveum, and we are currently looking for a Senior IT Project Manager to join our Client in the banking sector. You will be involved in the delivery of the Client's Finance receivables stream via a dedicated Contextual Monitoring solution. This is a large-scale initiative that includes new data integrations, scenario development, testing, and activation across four countries.

This is how we organize our work

This is how we work

• at the client's site
• you focus on a single project at a time
• you develop several projects simultaneously
• you have influence on the product
• you focus on product development
• you focus on code maintenance
• agile
• scrum

Your responsibilities

• Taking responsibility for the governance, oversight, and continuous management of Transaction Monitoring models and model-related regulatory commitments.
• Owning and maintaining the model management roadmap, translating financial crime strategy, risk priorities, regulatory requirements, and business needs into a clear and prioritized validation and governance plan.
• Driving model prioritization activities by balancing model risk, regulatory commitments, validation findings, technical sustainability, and capacity.
• Working closely with Capability Leads, Model Owners, and Subject Matter Experts to ensure model development, validation, implementation, and ongoing monitoring align with business objectives.
• Coordinating and overseeing model validation activities, ensuring findings, limitations, and risks are appropriately documented, tracked, and remediated.
• Partnering with Model Risk Management, Financial Crime, Technology, and Operations stakeholders to ensure validation requirements are clearly understood and addressed.
• Maintaining an end-to-end view of the model lifecycle, from model design and implementation through validation, approval, ongoing monitoring, and retirement.
• Overseeing the tracking and closure of model findings, audit observations, and risk acceptance actions, ensuring robust evidence of compliance.

Our requirements

• Proven experience as a Project/Programme Manager within the banking or financial sector.
• Experience managing cross-functional initiatives involving Risk, Compliance, Operations, and Technology teams.
• Experience delivering projects in a regulated environment and working with regulatory or audit requirements.
• Ability to manage dependencies, risks, issues, and remediation plans across multiple workstreams.
• Ability to translate complex business and regulatory requirements into clear delivery plans.
• Strong governance, prioritization, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Fluent English and Polish (both written and spoken).
• Highly Recommended: Experience with projects in the Financial Crime, AML, or Transaction Monitoring areas.

Optional

• Knowledge of Quantexa.
• Deeper understanding of the Transaction Monitoring domain.

What we offer

• Location: Warsaw or Łódź, Poland
• Work Mode: Hybrid (3 days per week in the office)
• Rate: up to 110 PLN/h (B2B) Contracting Party: Optiveum (B2B Cooperation)

This is how we work on a project

• architect / technical leader support
• team-level deployment
• documentation
• issue tracking tools
• testing environments

Benefits

• remote work opportunities
• integration events

OPTIVEUM SPÓŁKA Z OGRANICZONĄ ODPOWIEDZIALNOŚCIĄ

Optiveum is a recruitment and consulting company created based on our 20-plus years of experience in HR & IT services.

We work for Clients located in Poland and abroad providing our local and international Candidates with Project-based or Permanent job opportunities in a remote or office-based model.

This is how we work