Technical Programme Manager – Strategic Investment Platform

We are working with a prestigious, long-standing client in the global banking sector a recognised leader in quantitative finance and structured investment products.

As part of a strategic multi-year programme, they are building and scaling a next-generation investment platform designed to support complex, data-driven financial strategies at institutional scale.

This is a senior individual contributor role, sitting at the intersection of technology delivery and financial markets. You will be responsible for making its delivery coherent, evidenced and continuous, coordinating across a broad set of engineering, quant and business stakeholders in a large matrix organisation.

Responsibilities:

• Reporting to the Head of the Investment Platform, you will work closely with platform engineering teams, quantitative developers, IT infrastructure and a range of business users and senior sponsors.
• Own end-to-end delivery coherence across multiple interdependent engineering teams.
• Identify, track and resolve cross-team dependencies before they become blockers.
• Establish and enforce evidence-based delivery cycles — working integrations, demonstrated interfaces, measurable performance benchmarks.
• Define and oversee testing strategies; ensure appropriate environments are available and maintained.
• Surface risks, unknowns and integration challenges early and track them systematically.
• Translate technical complexity into clear, accurate narratives for senior business stakeholders.
• Manage expectations proactively — communicating constraints, trade-offs and realistic delivery horizons.
• Challenge assumptions, validate claims and identify inefficiencies across the programme.
• Support resourcing and prioritisation decisions in collaboration with team leads.