Associate Principal Engineer (Treasury & Banking)

Requirements

• Experience - 9+ years
• Strong overall experience in technology project or program delivery, including at least 5 years in banking or financial services.
• Proven experience delivering projects in Treasury, Corporate Banking, Capital Markets, Markets, Payments, Trade Finance, or related banking domains.
• Strong understanding of Treasury products and processes, including FX, money markets, fixed income, liquidity, cash management, confirmations, settlements, and accounting interfaces.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex integration projects involving core banking, payment networks, market data, risk, finance, and regulatory systems.
• Strong expertise in end-to-end project and program management, including planning, milestone tracking, dependency management, resource coordination, and delivery governance.
• Hands-on experience with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies, with relevant PMP, PRINCE2, or Agile certifications such as Scrum or SAFe.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to engage effectively with business stakeholders, technology teams, vendors, and senior leadership.
• Experience managing project budgets, forecasts, commercial commitments, vendors, contracts, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Proven ability to manage executive reporting, steering committee governance, RAID logs, change control, issue resolution, and decision management.
• Experience coordinating business requirements, solution delivery, testing, UAT, cutover, production readiness, and hypercare.
• Experience working in highly regulated banking environments with strong risk, security, compliance, and audit requirements.
• Exposure to AI-related projects, automation, data analytics, or AI-enabled transformation initiatives.
• Experience with Treasury transformation, platform modernization, cloud adoption, or digital banking initiatives is desirable.
• Familiarity with banking platforms such as Murex, Calypso, Kondor, Finastra, Temenos, Finacle, Oracle Banking, SWIFT, or comparable solutions is preferred.
• Proficiency in Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Excel, and Power BI.
• Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation, facilitation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end technology project and program delivery across Treasury, Corporate Banking, Capital Markets, Payments, Trade Finance, and related banking domains.
• Manage project planning, scope definition, timelines, milestones, resource allocation, budgets, forecasts, and commercial commitments to ensure successful delivery.
• Drive Treasury and banking transformation initiatives, coordinating business requirements, solution design, technical implementation, and operational outcomes.
• Oversee complex integration projects involving core banking platforms, payment networks, market data, risk management, finance, and regulatory systems.
• Apply Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies based on project requirements, ensuring effective governance and execution.
• Manage project risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies (RAID), change requests, and decisions, ensuring timely resolution and escalation.
• Coordinate business stakeholders, technology teams, vendors, and cross-functional delivery teams to achieve project objectives.
• Manage senior stakeholder expectations and provide executive reporting, steering committee updates, delivery status, and progress against key milestones.
• Oversee vendor management, contract administration, budget control, financial forecasting, and commercial performance.
• Lead testing strategy, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), cutover planning, production implementation, operational readiness, and post-implementation hypercare.
• Ensure project deliverables comply with banking regulations, security standards, risk management frameworks, audit requirements, and internal governance policies.
• Collaborate with Treasury and Corporate Banking stakeholders to understand business processes, including foreign exchange (FX), money markets, fixed income, liquidity, cash management, confirmations, settlements, and accounting interfaces.
• Support Treasury transformation, platform modernization, cloud adoption, digital banking, and AI-enabled initiatives where applicable.
• Identify opportunities to improve delivery efficiency through automation, data analytics, AI-enabled solutions, and continuous process improvement.
• Maintain project documentation, schedules, status reports, and delivery dashboards using tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Excel, and Power BI.