Technical Programme Manager

The role

Technical Programme Managers are responsible for the delivery of complex technical programmes within the engineering division. You will lead the formation and planning of programmes and support engineering departments to ensure success.

What you will do

• Manage technical programmes including planning, setting milestones and success criteria.
• Coordinate complex multi-team, multi-month engineering programmes.
• Communicate schedules, priorities and updates to all levels in the company.
• Support engineering departments to identify alignment gaps and reduce overhead.
• Dive into technical details to drive programmes forward.
• Collaborate with large cross-functional teams.
• Drive continuous improvement across the engineering organisation.
• Develop tools and optimise processes to improve productivity and efficiency.

Required qualifications

• Proven track record managing cross-functional technical initiatives within a top tier technology company.
• Understand a modern microservice-based technology stack (Kubernetes, Kafka, AWS/GCP) built on a CI/CD pipeline.
• Good understanding of the full software development lifecycle (product management, engineering, testing, operations).
• Inquisitive mind and is motivated by solving problems.
• Self-starter, able to operate autonomously to lead large multi-disciplinary efforts.
• Excellent organisational, written, and presentation skills building strong relationships with stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Knowledge or experience in the retail banking industry.
• Experience as a software engineer, an infrastructure engineer or some other technical role.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Pension plan (match up to 5%)
• Life insurance - three times annual salary
• Competitive maternity (six months fully paid) and paternity leave (four weeks fully paid)
• Shared parental leave (matched to our maternity leave for the same point in time)
• 25 days holiday and bank holidays
• Flexible working hours
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Electric car scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Access to outstanding learning materials and courses
• Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine

About the company

Thought Machine develops core and payments technology that runs natively in the cloud to rid the world's banks of legacy technology. The company has more than 550 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and Lisbon.