Senior Program Manager 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.

This is a senior individual contributor role sitting at the intersection of technology delivery and financial will be the 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.

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
  

Requirements

• Proven experience delivering complex technology programmes in investment banking or quantitative finance environments
  
• Direct exposure to QIS (Quantitative Investment Strategies) or systematic investment platforms; understanding how strategies are researched backtested and industrialised
  
• Hands-on experience coordinating with Quant researchers and Quant developers
  
• Technical fluency across software architecture infrastructure and integration
  
• Familiarity with quant technology ecosystems (Python C distributed data systems market data infrastructure)
  
• Background in structured products equity derivatives or passive/systematic investment platforms is a strong advantage
  
• Comfortable operating without direct line authority across Quant Tech IT and Business teams in large matrix organisationsDirect and confident communicator you adapt your message to your audience without losing accuracy
  

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