Technical Programme Manager

We are looking for an experienced Programme Manager to join the SFI engineering team under Business Aligned Services. The role will report into the Engineering Director working closely with the SFI stakeholders and Engineering partners. The role is accountable for the end-to-end delivery of large-scale software development projects through coordination and management of a number of project managers who are in various locations around the globe. Role Responsibilities:

• Provides overall programme leadership, guidance, and expertise to manage all aspects of a programme, project or initiative, including requirements analysis, business case creation, dependency management, planning and execution.
• Develops budget and operating plan for the program/portfolio
• Produces accurate and timely reporting of program status throughout its life cycle.
• Implements and manages consistent project governance across projects and coordinates interdependencies.
• Manage stakeholders to make communication easy and transparent regarding project issues and decisions.
• Accountable for overall progress of the programme, with particular focus on budgets, key milestones, resources, and dependencies
• Promotes and fosters collaboration across broad categories of stakeholders (including customers), leading cross-functional meetings and gaining commitments to ensure corrective actions take place if required
• Aligns team priorities and activity to the strategic delivery and transformation direction, ensuring prioritisation of key projects and devising new ideas and initiatives to support the organisation
• Leads and coaches project managers within the programme, setting performance and delivery expectations to yield consistent results
• Develops resourcing strategies to ensure optimum support for day-to-day operational activities, addressing escalated issues
• Manages programme-level risks and interdependencies, budget variances and change requests
• Ensures all projects adhere to LSEG Group Standards for project methodology, governance and risk management, Technology delivery - lead the delivery across all technology teams in the workstream throughout the end to end delivery chain
• Planning - Accountable for all technology planning activities, including working closely with Delivery Director to ensure technology plans are fully and correctly reflected in overall plans and roadmaps
• Dependency management - Ensures all impacts of dependencies are addressed in the overall roadmap. Effectively work across the organization to ensure all dependent teams are aligned with the project plans and schedules
• Risk and Issue Management - Ability to proactively manage risk and issues for the projects in a timely manner and have the confidence to make decisions to mitigate or resolve when required. Work closely with Delivery Director to ensure RAIDS are fully documented, mitigated and escalated as required.
• Leadership - Lead and work closely with all members of the team, including project manages, business analysts, architects, QE and development management to ensure all aspects from intake, requirements, design and testing are fit for purpose and delivered in a timely manner for planning and execution
• Team performance - Work closely with the Project Managers and Vendor management (where required) ensure the delivery performance of the teams throughout execution and identify opportunities to optimize to improve timeliness, throughput and quality.
• Problem solving and decision making - sound judgment at a senior management level using assertiveness and influencing skills to ensure items are discussed and decisions made and agreed in a timely manner
• Governance - Manage any team governance and adhere to the overall programme governance to ensure all stakeholders and team members are aligned and effective in delivery
• Reporting - Ensure reporting is provided as required on a regular basis against roadmap, plans and any performance KPI's and OKR's for your teams
• Communication - Working closely and collaboratively with the Project management office to identify and manage all stakeholders, providing visibility and transparency
• Financial Management and Project Accounting - Providing the critical data required for the project management function to monitor and track financial health, analysing resource requirements across multiple projects or across programmes to meet strategic goals, Key Stakeholders
• Portfolio Delivery Director
• Technology Delivery Director
• Project Managers
• Other Delivery / Project Managers for dependencies
• Development / Delivery Managers
• Product Owners
• Business Sponsors
• Lead BA
• Lead Solutions architects
• Solution Managers
• Service (Release to BAU)
Responsibilities: Role Responsibilities:
• Provides overall programme leadership, guidance, and expertise to manage all aspects of a programme, project or initiative, including requirements analysis, business case creation, dependency management, planning and execution.
• Develops budget and operating plan for the program/portfolio
• Produces accurate and timely reporting of program status throughout its life cycle.
• Implements and manages consistent project governance across projects and coordinates interdependencies.
• Manage stakeholders to make communication easy and transparent regarding project issues and decisions.
• Accountable for overall progress of the programme, with particular focus on budgets, key milestones, resources, and dependencies
• Promotes and fosters collaboration across broad categories of stakeholders (including customers), leading cross-functional meetings and gaining commitments to ensure corrective actions take place if required
• Aligns team priorities and activity to the strategic delivery and transformation direction, ensuring prioritisation of key projects and devising new ideas and initiatives to support the organisation
• Leads and coaches project managers within the programme, setting performance and delivery expectations to yield consistent results
• Develops resourcing strategies to ensure optimum support for day-to-day operational activities, addressing escalated issues
• Manages programme-level risks and interdependencies, budget variances and change requests
• Ensures all projects adhere to LSEG Group Standards for project methodology, governance and risk managemen, Technology delivery - lead the delivery across all technology teams in the workstream throughout the end to end delivery chain
• Planning - Accountable for all technology planning activities, including working closely with Delivery Director to ensure technology plans are fully and correctly reflected in overall plans and roadmaps
• Dependency management - Ensures all impacts of dependencies are addressed in the overall roadmap. Effectively work across the organization to ensure all dependent teams are aligned with the project plans and schedules
• Risk and Issue Management - Ability to proactively manage risk and issues for the projects in a timely manner and have the confidence to make decisions to mitigate or resolve when required. Work closely with Delivery Director to ensure RAIDS are fully documented, mitigated and escalated as required.
• Leadership - Lead and work closely with all members of the team, including project manages, business analysts, architects, QE and development management to ensure all aspects from intake, requirements, design and testing are fit for purpose and delivered in a timely manner for planning and execution
• Team performance - Work closely with the Project Managers and Vendor management (where required) ensure the delivery performance of the teams throughout execution and identify opportunities to optimize to improve timeliness, throughput and quality.
• Problem solving and decision making - sound judgment at a senior management level using assertiveness and influencing skills to ensure items are discussed and decisions made and agreed in a timely manner
• Governance - Manage any team governance and adhere to the overall programme governance to ensure all stakeholders and team members are aligned and effective in delivery
• Reporting - Ensure reporting is provided as required on a regular basis against roadmap, plans and any performance KPI's and OKR's for your teams
• Communication - Working closely and collaboratively with the Project management office to identify and manage all stakeholders, providing visibility and transparency
• Financial Management and Project Accounting - Providing the critical data required for the project management function to monitor and track financial health, analysing resource requirements across multiple projects or across programmes to meet strategic goal
  
  This is a People Leader role
• Degree or equivalent
• Project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2, APM) - highly desirable.
• Previous experience project management
• Previous experience in people management.
Essential Skills:
• Previous experience of working in a large scale, Top Tier Investment Bank or for a wider Financial Services Organisation
• Good understanding of the Fixed Income and Commodities market
• Proven experience in delivering large-scale technical programmes in a hands-on capacity
• A software delivery background would be highly beneficial due to the technical nature of the deliverables
• Extensive stakeholder management experience up to senior level, alongside the management of external vendor relationships
• Experience of working in a complex, high-paced environment with a global team
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal