Job Summary
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Own the end-to-end lifecycle for complex enterprise payment programmes, from discovery and chartering through design, build, testing, rollout, operational readiness and stabilisation.
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Develop integrated programme plans, milestones, budgets, resource models, governance routines and measurable success criteria.
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Lead delivery across multiple product teams, business functions, vendors, geographies and time zones, while maintaining clear accountability for outcomes.
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Partner with architects and engineering leaders on solution reviews, technical feasibility, integration patterns, non-functional requirements and implementation sequencing.
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Drive delivery of payment capabilities such as authorisation, capture, settlement, refunds, chargebacks, tokenisation, payment gateway integration, reconciliation and transaction monitoring.
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Manage cross-programme dependencies across commerce, point-of-sale, order management, finance, fraud, security, data and customer experience platforms.
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Identify, assess and actively manage programme risks, issues, assumptions, decisions and dependencies; establish timely escalation and resolution paths.
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Coordinate test strategy and release readiness across functional, integration, regression, performance, security, resilience and production validation activities.
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Ensure operational readiness through support models, monitoring, alerting, runbooks, incident response, vendor support and business continuity planning.
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Provide concise, transparent reporting to sponsors, stakeholders and senior leadership, including delivery health, financials, risks, decisions and business impact.
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Contribute to strategic roadmaps, portfolio reviews, investment planning and prioritisation for enterprise payment capabilities.
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Drive continuous improvement in programme governance, delivery flow, automation, quality, communication and resource efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Initiates, plans, controls, and implements medium to large cross-divisional, multi-year projects utilizing Lululemon’s project management practices
- Ensures overall deliverables are completed, including project charter, plan, schedule, requirements, design, development, testing, implementation, policies and procedures, standards, contracts, risks, and issues resolutions
- Plans projects in detail, develops and manages project budgets, organizes project teams and works with resource managers to coordinate and align resource needs
- Identifies, evaluates, and proactively manages cross-project interdependencies
- Manages progress of efforts and communicates status to sponsors, stakeholders on a regular basis and to senior leadership as needed
- Participates in strategic roadmap planning and may facilitate and provide materials for portfolio review meetings
- Excellent communication skills, able to flex style and work with all levels within the organization from individual contributors to Executives
- Proactively identify opportunities and contribute to continuous business process improvement efforts to help streamline and standardize workflow, communication, and resource efficiencies utilizing relative process improvement techniques and methodologies.
- Ensures smooth implementation of new technologies and vendor integrations by using their expertise on their assigned domains and interfaces
- May conduct technical walkthroughs with software engineers to ensure technical feasibility and standards across departments.
- Collaborates with operations support and other teams to ensure robust production operations
Skill Requirements
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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
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Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible experience delivering complex technology initiatives, including 10+ years in project or programme management.
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Demonstrated experience delivering large, cross-functional programmes through the full software development lifecycle.
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Hands-on experience in enterprise payments, retail payments, payment gateways, payment orchestration, merchant acquiring or related financial transaction platforms.
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Experience creating and executing implementation strategies for complex, highly integrated and business-critical systems.
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Strong understanding of Agile, Waterfall, DevOps and Lean delivery practices, with the judgement to apply the right approach for the programme context.
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Ability to lead technical discussions involving APIs, event-driven integrations, distributed systems, cloud platforms, databases and high-availability services.
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Experience estimating effort and impact, managing budgets and capacity, and influencing technical and business decisions.
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Strong relationship, organisational change, facilitation, negotiation and conflict-resolution skills.
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Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate effectively from engineering teams to executive leadership.
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Proven ability to manage competing priorities with urgency, discipline and attention to detail.