Land a portfolio on a date
Banking and fintech programs: credit, regulation, a launch date the sponsor can see.
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Director of Project Portfolio
Banking and fintech programs: credit, regulation, a launch date the sponsor can see.
Employees, contractors, adjacent teams, budget and vendors. The organisation stays manageable.
One status for executives. I run people, budget and dates, and take part in architecture decisions.
Problem → action → outcome
Task: Take a new line to market: BNPL, referral programs, a credit product and partner channels.
What I did: Built a program of 7 product and engineering teams. Vendors, platform and payments in one control loop.
Result: Program launched on the agreed date: 7 teams, partner channels, budget held.
Task: Cut load on branches.
What I did: Moved operations into internet and mobile banking.
Result: 10 → 2 minutes in branch.
Task: Cut vendor lock-in and tighten controls.
What I did: ML models and an operating cadence for the data team.
Result: Antifraud models in production; fraud controls strengthened.
Task: Replace the case-management system (Jira Claim analogue).
What I did: Program plan, risks, delivery control.
Result: Replacement program closed: stages accepted on the agreed dates.
Task: Run the internet bank and speed up delivery.
What I did: Monitoring, CI/CD, team training.
Result: 500+ business and 300+ system metrics; 8 people, 70+ RHEL servers.
04.2022 - present
Director of Project Portfolio · since 2024 · 100+ people, RUB 500m+
Director of Projects · 2023-2024 · up to 30 people, RUB 100m+
Systems analyst · 2022-2023
Programs for a bank client: lending, BNPL, antifraud, vendor replacement. Hybrid, Saint Petersburg.
09.2021 - 04.2022
Systems analyst · banking integrations
Specs and APIs for microservices on OpenShift, Oracle, ESB-to-microservices migration.
03.2021 - 09.2021
Technical lead
Scrum team, Jira backlog, first and second-line support in under two months.
11.2020 - 03.2021
Chief engineer
Authentication platform: production stability, releases and capacity.
09.2017 - 11.2020
Deputy head of department
Remote banking channels: internet and mobile bank, monitoring, CI/CD, team of 8, 70+ RHEL servers. Saratov.
Current scope: IT and business programs in fintech, from the business goal to production.
Priorities, dates, budget, resource load, hiring and vendor payments. I take programs from the business goal to launch.
Employees and contractors through team managers: goals, KPIs, escalations, unblocking. One status for the business, executives and regulators.
Delivery pipelines, CI/CD, monitoring and SLAs. I influence architecture on the program landscape; teams own day-to-day implementation.
Keywords: PMO · delivery · budget · vendors · architecture · CI/CD · Kubernetes · Scrum · internet banking · lending · BNPL · antifraud