Project Manager

About Apexon:

Apexon is an AI-first technology services firm that engineers intelligent enterprises. Our interconnected disciplines of Domain & Strategy, Cognitive Architecture, and Harness Engineering guide every engagement, helping clients deliver meaningful business outcomes while applying collective intelligence to confidently scale from early AI strategies to enterprise-grade production systems. For over three decades, we have helped organizations by leveraging our deep and practical expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Data & Analytics, Digital Engineering, and Experience, combined with our industry knowledge across Banking & Financial Services, Healthcare and Life Sciences to create lasting business value. Apexon is backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Everstone Capital.

JOB FUNCTION: Project Manager

RESPONSIBILITIES

• As a Project Manager you will lead the planning and execution of migration and transformation initiatives through a standardized factory model, with the following responsibilities.
• Own end-to-end delivery of factory initiatives from intake and scope definition through planning, execution, validation, handover, and closure.
• Define integrated project plans, milestones, dependencies, success criteria, resource needs, and delivery forecasts across multiple workstreams and migration waves.
• Coordinate application owners, engineering teams, infrastructure partners, vendors, and risk and control stakeholders to achieve readiness and timely execution.
• Establish and maintain governance routines, dashboards, RAID logs, decision records, action trackers, and executive-level status reporting.
• Proactively identify delivery risks, control gaps, capacity constraints, and cross-team dependencies; drive mitigation, escalation, and resolution.
• Drive standardization and continuous improvement of factory playbooks, runbooks, templates, quality gates, tooling, automation, and metrics.
• Facilitate working groups, readiness reviews, execution checkpoints, retrospectives, and management forums while ensuring clear ownership and follow-through.
• Track delivery outcomes and operational metrics, including throughput, schedule adherence, quality, risk reduction, and stakeholder readiness, and use insights to improve future waves.

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• Program and Project Management: Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-workstream technology initiatives using disciplined scope, schedule, dependency, resource, risk, issue, and change management.
• Migration and Factory Delivery: Understanding of repeatable delivery models, wave planning, readiness criteria, execution controls, validation, handover, and continuous improvement.
• Stakeholder Management: Ability to align application, engineering, infrastructure, operations, vendor, risk, and control stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
• Communication and Influence: Strong written and verbal communication, executive reporting, meeting facilitation, negotiation, and the ability to drive decisions and accountability without direct authority.
• Risk and Control Discipline: Experience managing delivery risks, issues, dependencies, change controls, quality gates, evidence, and audit-ready governance.
• Analytical Thinking: Ability to interpret complex data, identify bottlenecks and trends, evaluate options, and turn insights into practical delivery actions.
• Technical Acumen: Working knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, cloud, storage, scheduling, automation, and application migration concepts, with the ability to engage credibly with engineering teams.
• Leadership and Ownership: Proactive, outcome-oriented leadership style with sound judgment, attention to detail, resilience, and a strong focus on team collaboration and delivery commitments.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• 8+ years of project or program management experience delivering complex technology, infrastructure, cloud, or migration initiatives.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent workstreams in a matrixed organization and communicating with both engineering teams and senior stakeholders.
• Proficiency with project planning, reporting, collaboration, and data-analysis tools; experience with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methods.
• Financial services experience and a recognized project management certification are desirable but not prerequisites.

Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

Did you know that Apexon has been Certified™ by Great Place To Work®, the global authority on workplace culture, in each of the four regions in which it operates: USA (for the seventh time in 2026), India (for the tenth consecutive time in 2026), the UK(for the fourth time in 2026) and Mexico (for the second time in 2026). Apexon is committed to being an equal opportunity employer and promoting diversity in the workplace. We take affirmative action to ensure equal employment opportunity for all qualified individuals. Apexon strictly prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind and provides equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to gender, race, color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. You can read about our Job Applicant Privacy policy here Job Applicant Privacy Policy (apexon.com)

Our Commitment to Environment:

Actively contribute to Apexon's commitment to environmental responsibility by following sustainable practices and supporting ESG initiatives.

Our Perks and Benefits:

Our benefits and rewards program has been thoughtfully designed to recognize your skills and contributions, elevate your learning/upskilling experience and provide care and support for you and your loved ones. As an Apexon Associate, you get continuous skill-based development, opportunities for career advancement, and access to comprehensive health and well-being benefits and assistance.

We also offer:

oGroup Health Insurance covering family of 4

o Term Insurance and Accident Insurance

o Paid Holidays & Earned Leaves

o Paid Parental LeaveoLearning & Career Development

o Employee Wellness

Job Location :

Bengaluru, India