IT Programme Manager

**218132**Job Posting** Apr 27, 2025, 3:49:42 AM | **Primary Location** Doha | **Unposting Date** May 5, 2025, 3:59:00 PM

**Description**

**About The Role**

We are on an exciting digital transformation journey, leveraging technology as a key business differentiator and a competitive advantage. We are redesigning and reinventing our business processes for sustainable digital future. We are implementing with state-of-art technologies, techniques, and approaches to achieve our business objectives. In this role, you will be primarily responsible for managing the technology products and IT services portfolio for Aircraft maintenance & engineering lines of business within Qatar Airways IT. You will be partnering with assigned business departments to identify technology enabled business outcomes, prioritize, and deliver them working closely with product owners, delivery leads, software engineering leads, and external suppliers as appropriate. To accelerate this digital journey, we are looking for an IT Programme Manager who will lead large digital initiatives, facilitate formulating technical solutions, work with Project Managers and the business and overall lead the digital journey.

**Your Responsibilities**
- Deliver large scale IT programs / projects in alignment with the organization’s strategic plans and objectives.
- Drive innovation to ensure solutions drive value to the business.
- Work closely with business leaders (VPs and above), in a multi-cultural environment.
- Drive communication plan, engage stakeholders across business functions, controlling and reporting progress to the Steering Group/Sponsor and escalating any issues, as appropriate, in a timely manner.
- Identify inter-dependencies between the various stakeholder groups to ensure all are aligned and risks are identified, mitigated and communicated.
- Ensuring appropriately skilled resources are delivering the project and managing the availability and performance.
- Oversee and supervise employees, mentor, coach and build technology competence in the delivery & manage their career aspirations.
- Liaise with external 3rd party suppliers and internal departments / IT teams to collaborate and design, implement robust & secure solutions.

**Be part of an extraordinary story**

Your skills. Your imagination. Your ambition. Here, there are no boundaries to your potential and the impact you can make. You’ll find infinite opportunities to grow and work on the biggest, most rewarding challenges that will build your skills and experience. You have the chance to be a part of our future, and build the life you want while being part of an international community.

Our best is here and still to come. To us, impossible is only a challenge. Join us as we dare to achieve what’s never been done before. Together, everything is possible

**Qualifications**

**Knowledge & Experience**
- Bachelor Degree with minimum 10 years of IT program management and IT delivery experience.
- Should possess large program / project delivery execution through onsite/offshore model, vendor management, mobilizing large teams and worked across multiple technology platforms and tools.
- Experience in developing and implementing IT solutions for aircraft M&E, MRO business functions is a must.
- Provide leadership and direction to the delivery teams, work closely with the project managers to manage the Project Schedules / timelines
- Digitalization of business processes, implementing performance improvement initiatives and recommending best practices.
- Expertise in Agile/Waterfall software development practices, Design Thinking, Lean Software Management, DevSecOps and Engineering Platform concepts etc. are strongly preferred to be successful in this role.
- Knowledge in Information security standards like ISO 27001, PCI DSS and GDPR.
- Excellent communication (written, verbal) and presentation skills, at organization leadership levels
- Excellent problem solving and solutioning mind set.
- Must be a Go-Getter with positive attitude, Self-motivating, innovative, open-minded and inspiring
- PMI or other industry leading certifications around Project Management, Agile methodologies is preferred.

**About Qatar Airways Group**

Our story started with four aircraft. Today, we deliver excellence across 12 different businesses coming together as one. We’ve grown fast, broken records and set trends that others follow. We don’t slow down by the fear of failure. Instead, we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.

So whether you’re creating a unique experience for our customers or innovating behind the scenes, every person contributes to our proud story. A story of spectacular growth and determination. Now is the time to bring your best ideas and passion to a place where your ambition will know no boundaries, and be part of a truly global community