London Stock Exchange Group

Overview

We are looking for an experienced Technical Delivery Manager/Project Manager to join the Trading Team. The role will report into a Trading Programme Manager working closely with the various development team leads and will have overall delivery accountability. 

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. 

Main Responsibilities

• Runs projects that involve multiple partners, ensuring project charters, coordinated project plans, resource and contingency plans are prioritised, and that risk management processes are in place
• Works with project sponsors/partners to agree project objectives, achievements and success criteria and develops status reports to update key partners on project progress
• Evaluates trade-offs between project size, complexity, cost, risk, etc. effectively assessing and resolving high-priority project risks
• Runs project workstreams throughout the project lifecycle delivering results that meet the success parameters stated in the 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

• Technology delivery – lead the delivery across all technology teams in the workstream throughout the end to end delivery chain
• 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
• 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
• 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 ensure RAIDS are fully documented, mitigated and raised as required.
• 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 delivered in a timely manner for planning and execution
• 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 see 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 technology team governance and adhere to the overall programme governance to ensure all partners 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 for your teams
• Communication - Working closely with the Project management office to identify and handle all partners, providing visibility and clarity
• Financial Management and Project Accounting – Providing the critical data required for the project management function to supervise financial health, analysing resource requirements across multiple projects or across programmes to meet strategic goals

Required skills

• This is an Individual Contributor role
• Degree or equivalent experience or equivalent
• Project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2, APM) – highly desirable.
• Previous experience project management
• Previous experience in team co-ordination / management.

Essential Skills:

• Previous experience of working in a large scale, Premier Investment Bank or for a wider Financial Services Organisation
• Validated experience in delivering large-scale technical programmes in a hands-on capacity
• A software delivery background would be highly helpful due to the technical nature of the deliverables
• Extensive partner management experience up to senior level, alongside the management of external vendor relationships
• Experience of working in a sophisticated, high-paced environment with global teams.

Benefits

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!

We maximise each employee’s potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 25 days’ holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Dental Coverage
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

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