Project Manager

We are looking for a Project Manager to work on a strategic integration project between two large institutions in the financial sector, conducting end-to-end coordination of business, technology, operations, security, testing, and deployment activities.

The professional will be responsible for ensuring alignment between the teams of the involved institutions, partners, and internal teams, ensuring predictability, governance, risk control, and fulfillment of agreed milestones.

The project may involve API integration, payment flows, cards, authorization and settlement of transactions, as well as security, certification, compliance, and production entry requirements.

Responsibilities and duties

• Manage the integration project from planning to deployment and stabilization.
• Structure the project plan, schedule, milestones, dependencies, deliveries, and success criteria.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams from technology, product, operations, security, architecture, infrastructure, risk, compliance, and business.
• Act as the main point of contact between the involved parties, promoting clear communication and rapid decision-making.
• Conduct follow-up meetings, executive committees, technical meetings, and governance ceremonies.
• Monitor systemic integrations, APIs, transactional flows, data exchange, credentials, environments, and external dependencies.
• Ensure the planning and execution of development stages, integrated tests, testing, certification, deployment, and post-production.
• Coordinate the preparation of technical and functional evidence for integration validation.
• Identify, record, and handle risks, problems, impediments, scope changes, and schedule impacts.
• Control the backlog of pending items and ensure the definition of owners and deadlines for each action.
• Support the elaboration of contingency, rollback, and operational continuity plans.
• Ensure the production of executive status reports, dashboards, and monitoring indicators.
• Support prioritization decisions, sequencing of deliveries, and conflict management between teams.
• Ensure that deliveries meet security, privacy, compliance, and governance requirements applicable to the financial sector.
• Conduct the transition to operations, including documentation, training, assisted support, and stabilization monitoring.

EXPECTED DELIVERABLES

• Integrated project plan, schedule, and responsibility matrix.
• Defined governance between participating institutions and other stakeholders.
• Map of dependencies, risks, problems, and decisions.
• Technical and functional integration plan.
• Testing, testing, and certification strategy.
• Deployment, rollback, and assisted support plan.

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• Executive status reports and evolution indicators.
• Documentation of processes, integrations, and operations.
• Production entry with stability and monitoring of agreed indicators.

Requirements and qualifications

REQUIREMENTS

• Proven experience as a Project Manager in initiatives involving system integration, financial platforms, payment methods, or banking services.
• Experience conducting projects with multiple companies, suppliers, and business areas.
• Experience with integrations via API, webhooks, messaging, files, gateways, or other communication mechanisms between systems.
• Knowledge of projects involving payments, cards, acquiring, Pix, banking as a service, or financial products.

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• Experience with planning integrated tests, testing, certification, and production deployment.
• Ability to manage complex schedules, critical dependencies, and multiple simultaneous workflows.
• Mastery of risk, problem, change, scope, and executive communication management practices.
• Experience with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid methodologies.
• Good ability to prepare presentations, executive reports, action plans, and project documentation.
• Advanced or fluent English for interaction with international teams and stakeholders.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, organization, and negotiation skills.

DIFFERENTIATORS

• Previous experience in projects with card brands, issuers, acquirers, processors, or financial institutions.
• Knowledge of issuance, authorization, capture, settlement, chargeback, tokenization, or card lifecycle management processes.
• Experience with card brand certification and payment integration testing.
• Experience with PCI DSS, LGPD, fraud prevention, information security, and regulatory control requirements.
• Knowledge of products and APIs from financial institutions or payment method companies.
• Experience in high-criticality projects with direct impact on customers, financial transactions, or revenue.
• Certifications such as PMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, SAFe, PRINCE2, or similar.
• Knowledge of tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, MS Project, Smartsheet, or Power BI.

BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES

• Objective communication and ability to adapt language for technical and executive audiences.
• Collaborative profile, with the ability to act in complex and multicultural environments.
• Organization, discipline, and results orientation.
• Ability to anticipate risks and act preventively.
• Sense of urgency to handle critical impediments.
• Ability to negotiate priorities, deadlines, and responsibilities.
• Autonomy to lead the project and escalate decisions when necessary.
• Ownership mindset, accountability, and focus on value delivery.
• Ability to work under pressure without losing control of governance.