Programme Manager (Financial Services)

Join Europes leading high-growth Google Cloud consultancy. At Qodea youll be part of a team energised by innovation and passionate about delivering exceptional results. We craft cutting-edge solutions in data and analytics AI cloud infrastructure and security driving digital transformation that empowers our customers to scale modernise and lead in their industries. Were driven by ideas and powered by our people.

We are looking for an experienced Programme Manager to lead and coordinate a portfolio of cloud data and AI consulting projects within a major Financial Services account.

This role will be London based with flexibility to travel to client sites across the UK and occasionally Europe.

How Youll Shape Our Success

The successful candidate will drive governance oversee multiple project teams run steering committees and act as a key interface with senior client stakeholders.

This role will work closely with a Commercial Lead and a Technical Lead as part of a client-facing leadership team helping to define shape and grow new opportunities within the account while ensuring successful delivery of existing engagements.

The Programme Manager will primarily engage with the CIO senior leadership team across multiple banking divisions and in partnership with the Commercial and Technical Leads will also engage with the CIOs across the business.

What Youll Do:

Programme Oversight & Delivery:

• Manage a portfolio of projects across cloud migration data platforms AI/ML initiatives and infrastructure modernisation.
• Ensure alignment with client strategy regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
• Track Programme health risks issues dependencies and deliverables across workstreams.

Governance & Reporting:

• Establish and run Programme governance structures reporting processes and steering committees.
• Provide executive-level updates to CIO leadership ensuring transparency and alignment.
• Ensure Programme KPIs SLAs and regulatory obligations are met.

Stakeholder Management:

• Build trusted relationships with CIO senior leadership teams across divisions.
• Work in partnership with the Commercial Lead and Technical Lead to engage CIOs across the business.
• Act as the key liaison between client leadership delivery teams and vendor partners.
• Drive alignment between technical and business functions to achieve shared outcomes.

Business Development & Account Growth:

• Partner with the Commercial Lead to identify new revenue opportunities expand existing engagements and contribute to account planning.
• Work with the Technical Lead to ensure proposed solutions are technically robust scalable and aligned to client needs.
• Shape proposals support bids and present to senior stakeholders to secure new business.

Leadership & People Management:

• Provide leadership across multi-disciplinary teams (consultants engineers architects data scientists).
• Mentor project managers ensuring consistent methodologies and standards are applied.
• Foster a culture of accountability transparency and delivery excellence.

What Youll Need to Succeed:

Financial Services Expertise:

• 10 years experience in enterprise technology in financial services
• Strong understanding of banking regulations and compliance requirements (e.g. Basel III MiFID II GDPR PRA/FCA Dodd-Frank).
• Proven delivery within highly regulated environments.

Programme Management Experience:

• 10 years experience in programme/project management within large complex organizations.
• Hands-on experience with governance frameworks steering committees and executive stakeholder engagement.
• Track record of managing multi-million-pound portfolios and distributed delivery teams.

Cloud Infrastructure & Enterprise Technology:

• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (GCP AWS or Azure) and hybrid enterprise architectures.
• Experience in infrastructure modernization large-scale migrations and data center transformations.
• Awareness of enterprise technologies commonly used in banks (core banking middleware data platforms enterprise applications).

Agile & Delivery Methodologies:

• Proven experience applying Agile methodologies (Scrum SAFe Kanban hybrid agile-waterfall models) to large-scale transformation programmes.
• Ability to adapt governance to different delivery styles and integrate vendor/partner agile practices with bank governance frameworks.

Soft Skills:

• Strong communication influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to present to and negotiate with CIO leadership teams and CIOs across the business.
• Excellent problem-solving and conflict resolution skills.
• Operates effectively in fast-moving matrixed and globally distributed environments.

Financial:

• Competitive base salary.
• Matching pension scheme (up to 5%) from day one.
• Discretionary company bonus scheme.
• 4 x annual salary Death in Service coverage from day one.
• Employee referral scheme.

Health and Wellbeing:

• Private medical insurance from day one.
• app: access to remote GPs second opinions mental health support and physiotherapy.
• EAP service
• Cycle to Work scheme.

Time Off and Flexibility:

• 36 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays).
• An extra paid day off for your birthday.
• Ten paid learning days per year.
• Flexible working hours.
• Market-leading parental leave.
• Sabbatical leave (after five years).
• Work from anywhere (up to 3 weeks per year).

Development and Recognition:

• Industry-recognised training and certifications.
• Bonusly employee recognition and rewards platform.
• Clear opportunities for career development.
• Length of Service Awards

Extra Perks:

• Regular company events.
• Tech Scheme.

Diversity and Inclusion Statement

At Qodea we champion diversity and inclusion. We believe that a career in IT should be open to everyone regardless of race ethnicity gender age sexual orientation disability or neurotype. We value the unique talents and perspectives that each individual brings to our team and we strive to create a fair and accessible hiring process for all. If you feel we can improve in any way please reach out to our careers team via email at or connect with us on LinkedIn via our Qodea Company Page.

Required Experience:

Manager