Technical Project Manager

Our client - a well known Financial Services business based in London - are looking for a Technical Project Manager to join the team. This is a long-term interim contract, and they operate on a hybrid model (3 days per week in Central London.)

Client Details

Our client - a well known Financial Services business based in London - are looking for a Technical Project Manager to join the team. This is a long-term interim contract, and they operate on a hybrid model (3 days per week in Central London.)

Description

Lead delivery of strategic transformation and cross-functional initiatives, ensuring alignment to the unified business strategy and operating model.

Build and maintain integrated delivery plans, coordinating delivery across application, data, security, infrastructure, product, operations and business readiness streams.

Proactively manage risks, issues, dependencies and change to safeguard scope, timelines, budget and quality.

Assess the quality, clarity and traceability of technical, product and business requirements against delivery outcomes.

Facilitate discovery and problem-definition discussions to clarify outcomes, assumptions and decision points.

Analyse stakeholders, influence paths and impacted groups to support alignment and adoption.

Ensure relevant quality control processes are in place for all deliverables appropriate to level of risk.

Plan and execute transition, capability mobilisation, residual cutover and hypercare activities under robust governance and compliance frameworks.

Manage customer-impacting change and business readiness for new capabilities, operating model changes and cross-functional delivery milestones.

Track benefits, readiness indicators and delivery outcomes to support prioritisation and decision-making.

Support definition, prioritisation and tracking of strategic capabilities, ensuring initiatives map clearly to business outcomes, dependencies and benefits.

Drive cross-functional alignment across Technology, Product, Operations, Commercial and other business stakeholders.

Manage day-to-day project operations with urgency; coordinate internal teams and external vendors, keeping stakeholders abreast of progress.

Participate in governance forums, providing concise reporting on progress, risks, dependencies and decisions required to support the strategic roadmap.

Use delivery data and AI-assisted review, where appropriate, to validate assumptions, highlight risks and improve reporting quality.

Meet financial objectives by forecasting requirements, preparing budgets, scheduling expenditures, analysing variances and initiating corrective actions.

Ensure PMO approach is adhered to, and project documents and controls are complete, current and appropriately filed.

Profile

7+ years' experience owning or managing multi-disciplinary technology development, transformation or cross-functional delivery programmes.

Strong project management expertise (Agile, Hybrid and Waterfall) with demonstrable experience coordinating technology delivery across multiple teams, capabilities and business functions.

Excellent organisational skills, exceptional attention to detail and proven ability to resolve issues decisively.

Experience planning cutovers, hypercare operations, transitions or capability mobilisation activities.

Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to align internal teams and external vendors.

Ability to assess requirements for clarity, completeness, traceability and alignment to business outcomes.

Experience supporting business readiness, benefits management and adoption planning.

Commercial acumen - ability to incorporate financial impacts of decisions into discussions and reporting.

Ability to communicate complex technical and process concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Ability to manage changing priorities while maintaining accuracy, working independently and collaboratively as required.

Advanced proficiency with MS Excel, PowerPoint and Word, with hands-on experience using Atlassian tools, including Jira and Confluence.

Working knowledge of data-informed decision support and AI-assisted validation techniques.

Understanding of technology systems and delivery across application, data, security, infrastructure, product and operational domains.

Strong risk, dependency and change management capabilities, with a focus on minimising operational and customer impact.

Excellent communication skills with ability to maintain clear, trusted executive communications and reporting.

Experience translating strategic business initiatives into delivery plans, roadmaps, milestones, dependencies and executive reporting.

Experience with complex system integrations, data migrations and strategic transformation delivery.

Ability to connect programme-level outcomes with practical delivery governance, prioritisation and senior stakeholder reporting.

Structured problem-solving, critical thinking and analytical judgement.

Structured discovery and facilitation, with the ability to frame problems and guide decisions.

Benefits and readiness focus, connecting delivery activity to measurable outcomes and adoption.

Confident using technology and AI-enabled tools to support analysis, validation, planning and reporting.

Excellent verbal and written communication, stakeholder management and influence.

High ownership, organisation and attention to detail.

Ability to work independently and collaboratively in fast-paced environments.

Job Offer

A competitive daily rate, hybrid work schedule, and a long-term contract