Senior Technical Manager - London, United Kingdom - Experis LTD

Experis LTD

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Technical Delivery Manager / Project Manager

About the role:

We are looking for an experienced Technical Delivery Manager/Project Manager to join the Trading / Commodities team.

The role will report into a Trading Programme Manager working closely with the various development team leads and will have overall deliveryaccountability.

The role is accountable for the technical delivery of large-scale technical software development projects, through coordination and management of dedicated scrum teams located in various locations around the globe.

Role Responsibilities:

Manages projects that involve multiple stakeholders, ensuring project charters, integrated project plans, resource and contingency plans are scoped and documented and that risk management processes are in place
Works with project sponsors/stakeholders to agree project objectives, milestones and success criteria and develops status reports to update key stakeholders on project progress
Evaluates tradeoffs between project size, complexity, cost, risk, etc. effectively assessing and resolving highpriority project risks
Manages project workstreams throughout the project lifecycle delivering results that meet the success parameters stated in the business case
Supervises the project budget request process and performs regular financial reviews, tracking and measuring financial performance and key metrics against plan and validating financial forecasts
Ensures all projects adhere to LSEG Group Standards for project methodology, governance and risk management

Represents the project in various governance forums.

Specific Responsibilities / Accountabilities:

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Technology delivery - lead the delivery across all technology teams in the workstream throughout the end to end delivery chain
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Ensuring full engagement of relevant architects to provide solution design and overall architecture alignment:

Planning
Accountable for all technology planning activities, including working closely with Development Lead to ensure technology plans are fully and correctly reflected in overall plans and roadmaps

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Dependency management

Ensures all impacts of dependencies are addressed in the overall project plan. Effectively work across the organization to ensure all dependent teams are aligned with the project plans and schedules

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Risk and Issue Management

Ability to proactively manage risk and issues for the workstream in a timely manner and have the confidence to make decisions to mitigate or resolve when required. Work closely with workstream lead to ensureRAIDS are fully documented, mitigated and escalated as required.

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Leadership

Lead and work closely with all members of the team, including business analysts, architects, QE and development management to ensure all aspects from intake, requirements, design and testing are fit for purpose and deliveredin a timely manner for planning and execution

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Team performance

Work closely with the Scrum Masters and Vendor management (where required) and QE to ensure the delivery performance of the teams throughout execution and identify opportunities to optimize to improve timeliness, throughputand quality.

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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
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Governance

Manage any technology team governance and adhere to the overall programme governance to ensure all stakeholders and team members are aligned and effective in delivery

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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

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Communication

Working closely and collaboratively with the Project management office to identify and manage all stakeholders, providing visibility and transparency

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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 programmesto meet strategic goals

Minimum Requirements:

This is an Individual Contributor role
Degree or equivalent
Project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2, PMP) highly desirable.
Previous experience: Trading, Commodities and project management

Essential Skills:

Previous experience of working in a large scale, Top Tier Trading or for a wider Financial Services Organisation
Proven experience in delivering largescale technical programmes in a handson 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, highpaced environment with a global team
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

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