Complex Project Manager

Complex Project Manager

• Sydney, NSW
• 6-Month Contract
• Hybrid Working Environment

The Opportunity

Key responsibilities include proactive risk and issue management, stakeholder engagement, and providing structured reporting on project health, milestones, and financials. The role also involves overseeing governance processes, ensuring compliance with enterprise frameworks, and managing vendor performance.

The ideal candidate brings strong experience in delivering complex technical projects, preferably in the banking domain, with expertise in infrastructure deployment, test environment management, and Agile delivery. Strong communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills are essential to manage multiple concurrent workstreams effectively while ensuring delivery stability and quality outcomes.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the day-to-day management of technical project streams within a complex program, with a focus on test environment uplift
• Own and drive project planning, scheduling, budgeting, and execution in coordination with key stakeholders
• Manage cross-functional teams, including internal SMEs, external vendors, business analysts and solution engineers
• Ensure scope, timelines, and delivery risks are proactively identified, communicated, and mitigated
• Work collaboratively with program managers, project managers, solution architects, infrastructure leads, QA/test teams, and vendors to identify requirements, assess impacts and align delivery objectives
• Provide structured high-quality reporting to Program Managers on project health, risks, and outcomes

The Successful candidate

• Proven experience as a Project Manager delivering complex technical projects within large enterprise transformation programs, preferably in banking or financial services
• Knowledge of project governance, delivery lifecycles, stakeholder engagement, and vendor management
• Ability to read and interpret technical documentation such as architecture diagrams and system flows
• Solid experience managing end-to-end project delivery uplifting and deploying new Infrastructure, onboarding applications, and integrating with existing services
• Experience working with internal teams and third-party vendors to facilitate and manage delivery
• Excellent proactiveness, stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to gather requirements, facilitate workshops and drive outcomes
• Confident working with technical stakeholders and translating between business and IT domains
• Provide structured and concise reporting to Program Managers and key stakeholders on RAG status, milestones, risks, issues and finances
• High attention to detail and organisational skills, comfortable managing multiple concurrent streams
• A collaborative team player with excellent communication, interpersonal skills and strong resilience

 

Desirable

• Experience working in complex environments with many applications requiring integration into existing systems (E.g. Data Platforms, APIs, upstream & downstream systems)
• Solid understanding of test environments management
• Exposure to Traditional, Agile and hybrid delivery methodologies
• Familiar with a variety of project delivery and collaboration tools (e.g. MS Project, Jira, Confluence)
• Comfortable stepping into ambiguity
• A Team player, highly accountable, proactive, and flexible, with a willingness to go above and beyond

Why Apply?

• Join a leading Australian financial services organisation
• Work on enterprise-scale cloud and data platform initiative
• Collaborative and innovative delivery environment
• High-impact role with strong stakeholder engagement
• Competitive contract opportunity with immediate impact

Apply Now

Apply today or reach out for a confidential discussion: George Wright – 0480 011 549 or email georgew@whizdom.com.au

Candidates will need to be willing to undergo pre-employment screening checks which may include, ID and work rights, security clearance verification and any other client requested checks.