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Dhaka Technologies Limited is seeking a highly experienced Senior Project Manager to lead complex, enterprise-level technology and business transformation initiatives for one of its clients.

The selected candidate will be responsible for managing large-scale projects from initiation through delivery, ensuring alignment with business objectives, technical requirements, governance standards, budget expectations, and stakeholder priorities. This role requires a senior project leader with strong experience managing cross-functional teams, executive stakeholders, vendors, technical delivery teams, risk controls, project governance, and full lifecycle implementation activities.

The ideal candidate must be capable of operating in a high-accountability environment, driving execution across multiple workstreams, resolving complex delivery challenges, and ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, within budget, and according to established quality standards.

• Lead complex enterprise projects from initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, control, and closure.
  
• Develop and manage detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, budgets, and resource plans.
  
• Define project scope, objectives, success criteria, governance structure, communication plans, and delivery methodology.
  
• Manage multiple project workstreams, cross-functional teams, vendors, technical resources, business stakeholders, and executive sponsors.
  
• Drive project execution and ensure deliverables are completed on time, within scope, and in accordance with quality expectations.
  
• Identify, track, manage, and escalate project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and decisions.
  
• Maintain project RAID logs, status reports, executive dashboards, meeting notes, decision logs, and governance documentation.
  
• Facilitate project meetings, steering committee sessions, executive briefings, sprint reviews, planning sessions, and stakeholder workshops.
  
• Coordinate with business analysts, developers, architects, QA teams, security teams, infrastructure teams, operations teams, and external vendors.
  
• Ensure project activities align with approved business requirements, technical architecture, security standards, compliance requirements, and organizational policies.
  
• Manage project budgets, forecasts, burn rates, procurement activities, vendor deliverables, invoices, and contract-related dependencies.
  
• Monitor project performance using KPIs, milestones, schedule variance, budget variance, delivery metrics, and quality measures.
  
• Lead change management coordination, stakeholder communication, implementation planning, training readiness, and adoption support.
  
• Ensure proper documentation of project scope, requirements, design decisions, testing outcomes, deployment plans, operational handoff, and lessons learned.
  
• Support Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery models depending on project needs.
  
• Drive accountability across delivery teams and ensure timely resolution of blockers, defects, dependencies, and implementation risks.
  
• Provide strategic recommendations to leadership regarding project priorities, resource needs, delivery risks, and process improvements.
  
• Ensure compliance with project management standards, PMO governance, SDLC processes, procurement guidelines, and enterprise reporting requirements.
  
• Lead post-implementation reviews and recommend improvements for future delivery efforts.
  

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, Project Management, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; equivalent professional experience may be considered.
  
• 12+ years of professional project management experience.
  
• 8+ years of experience managing large-scale IT, software development, systems implementation, infrastructure, modernization, or enterprise transformation projects.
  
• Proven experience managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders, vendors, technical teams, business units, and executive sponsors.
  
• Strong experience managing project scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, and quality controls.
  
• Demonstrated experience leading full project lifecycles from initiation through implementation and operational handoff.
  
• Experience managing projects using Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid methodologies.
  
• Strong understanding of SDLC, application development, systems integration, testing, deployment, production support, and change management processes.
  
• Experience preparing executive-level status reports, steering committee materials, project dashboards, and governance documentation.
  
• Strong experience managing RAID logs, project plans, resource plans, budget trackers, communication plans, and project artifacts.
  
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, high-visibility environment.
  
• Strong vendor management experience, including coordinating deliverables, reviewing performance, managing dependencies, and supporting procurement-related activities.
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and senior leadership.
  
• Strong facilitation, negotiation, conflict-resolution, and decision-management skills.
  
• Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
  
• Ability to lead teams without direct authority and drive accountability across complex stakeholder groups.
  
• Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, SharePoint, Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, or similar platforms.
  

• PMP certification strongly preferred.
  
• Certified ScrumMaster, PMI-ACP, SAFe, or other Agile certification preferred.
  
• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Project Management, or a related field preferred.
  
• Experience managing government, public-sector, healthcare, financial services, education, or enterprise compliance-driven projects.
  
• Experience with cloud migration, enterprise application modernization, ERP/CRM implementation, cybersecurity, data platforms, or digital transformation initiatives.
  
• Experience working within a formal PMO environment.
  
• Experience managing projects with regulatory, security, accessibility, audit, or compliance requirements.
  
• Experience with business process improvement, organizational change management, stakeholder adoption, and operational readiness planning.
  
• Experience with vendor contracts, statements of work, procurement processes, and deliverable-based project execution.
  

• Executive-level communication and stakeholder management.
  
• Strong leadership presence and ability to drive accountability.
  
• Advanced risk, issue, and dependency management.
  
• Strong financial and budget management discipline.
  
• Ability to translate business priorities into executable project plans.
  
• Ability to manage ambiguity and bring structure to complex initiatives.
  
• Strong documentation, reporting, and governance discipline.
  
• Ability to work independently and make sound decisions under pressure.
  
• High attention to detail with strong follow-through.
  
• Results-driven, organized, analytical, and highly accountable.
  

The ideal candidate is a senior project leader with a proven record of delivering complex, high-impact technology initiatives in structured enterprise environments. This individual should be able to manage executive expectations, lead cross-functional teams, enforce project discipline, anticipate delivery risks, resolve blockers, and maintain full control over project scope, schedule, budget, quality, and stakeholder communication.

This role is best suited for a candidate who is not only a project coordinator, but a true delivery leader capable of owning outcomes, challenging assumptions, managing escalation paths, and ensuring that projects are completed successfully in demanding environments.

Interested candidates who meet the qualifications should send their CV to: talent@dhakatech.us