Implementation Project Manager – Payments & PCI

Marlabs, a global AI and Digital Solutions Consulting firm, delivers intelligent solutions across AI, data, analytics, and product engineering. Since 2000, we have partnered with some of the largest healthcare, life sciences, financial services, and government organizations worldwide. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we have an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled Implementation Project Manager – Payments & PCI to join our innovative team.

Implementation Project Manager – Payments & PCI | About You

As an Implementation Project Manager – Payments & PCI, you will lead the end-to-end implementation of a new enterprise software solution within a healthcare technology environment. You will coordinate business, technology, vendor, and cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery while maintaining a strong focus on financial and payment-processing requirements and PCI compliance. The ideal candidate brings proven software implementation leadership, strong experience delivering financial or payments-related technology projects, and a solid understanding of PCI requirements and controls.

Implementation Project Manager – Payments & PCI | Day-to-Day

• Lead the end-to-end implementation of a new enterprise software solution, managing the project from planning and requirements through testing, deployment, and implementation readiness.
• Develop and maintain project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, resources, and delivery timelines while driving accountability across project teams.
• Partner with Finance, Payments, Technology, Security, business stakeholders, and vendors to define requirements and ensure successful implementation outcomes.
• Ensure payment-related workflows, integrations, and implementation activities align with PCI compliance requirements and applicable security controls.
• Coordinate system integration, testing, UAT, issue resolution, cutover, and go-live readiness activities across business and technical teams.
• Facilitate project governance, stakeholder meetings, status reporting, risk escalation, and decision-making while clearly communicating progress to leadership.
• Proactively identify implementation risks, dependencies, and gaps and drive timely resolution to keep the project on schedule.
• Coordinate effectively across geographically distributed teams and maintain delivery momentum within a fast-paced, time-sensitive implementation.

Implementation Project Manager – Payments & PCI | Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of Project Management, Implementation Management, or Technology Delivery experience, with proven ownership of complex enterprise software implementations.
• Strong experience managing financial technology or payment-processing projects, including payment workflows, integrations, transaction processing, or related financial systems.
• Strong working knowledge of PCI compliance, with experience incorporating PCI requirements, security controls, and compliance considerations into technology implementations.
• Proven experience managing end-to-end software implementation lifecycles, including planning, requirements, integrations, testing/UAT, cutover, go-live, risk management, and stakeholder communication.
• Strong experience coordinating cross-functional business, technical, security, vendor, and executive stakeholders, with the ability to independently drive decisions and issue resolution.
• Excellent project governance, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with experience working remotely across multiple teams and time zones; healthcare technology experience is advantageous.