Senior IT Project Manager

Senior IT Project Manager Lead a major banking initiative across four countries, shaping Transaction Monitoring governance, validation and delivery. Hybrid Warsaw or Łódź, up to 110 PLN/h B2B. Senior IT Project Manager 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) 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. 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. What We Expect: 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. Nice to Have: Knowledge of Quantexa. Deeper understanding of the Transaction Monitoring domain. Specjalizacja / specialism IT Role Project Manager Locations Warsaw , Łódź Remote status Hybrid About OPTIVEUM sp. z o.o. 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. COMPANY DATA Optiveum Sp. z o.o. ul. Tomasza Zana 43 lok. 2.1 20-601 Lublin, Poland nr KRS: 0000834436, NIP 7010975729 Contact us at: info (at) optiveum.com Founded in 2020 Applicant tracking system by Teamtailor