Technical PMO Analyst

Tower Research Capital is a leading quantitative trading firm founded in 1998. Tower has built its business on a high-performance platform and independent trading teams. We have a 25 year track record of innovation and a reputation for discovering unique market opportunities.

Tower is home to some of the worlds best systematic trading and engineering talent. We empower portfolio managers to build their teams and strategies independently while providing the economies of scale that come from a large global organization.

Engineers thrive at Tower while developing electronic trading infrastructure at a world class level. Our engineers solve challenging problems in the realms of low-latency programming FPGA technology hardware acceleration and machine learning. Our ongoing investment in top engineering talent and technology ensures our platform remains unmatched in terms of functionality scalability and performance.

At Tower every employee plays a role in our success. Our Business Support teams are essential to building and maintaining the platform that powers everything we do combining market access data compute and research infrastructure with risk management compliance and a full suite of business services. Our Business Support teams enable our trading and engineering teams to perform at their best.

At Tower employees will find a stimulating results-oriented environment where highly intelligent and motivated colleagues inspire each other to reach their greatest potential. This team is responsible for driving firm-wide initiatives that require planning coordination and technical delivery across all groups including Core Engineering Trading Risk Management Compliance Finance and Operations.

The Role

We are hiring a technical PMO analyst part of our Platform Strategy and Transformation team to strengthen our PMO capability based in London. This is a hands-on hybrid role: part project delivery and PMO operations part builder of internal tools and metrics and part owner of internal documentation quality.

You will help run the PMO day to day collect and challenge project updates define and build useful metrics/dashboards and take ownership of selected projects. You will also write Python (with AI coding assistants) to automate work and ship small internal UIs/admin tools and act as content manager for PMO and project documentation on Confluence (and related internal spaces).

This role suits someone who likes structure and delivery can code enough to build practical tools cares about clear documentation and wants to grow into broader project management over time.

Responsibilities

• PMO operations metrics and reporting
• Collecting challenging and consolidating project updates from project managers and delivery leads into clear decision-ready status reporting.
• Defining building and maintaining project and portfolio metrics (progress delivery health risks/issues dependencies milestones capacity and KPI trends).
• Building and maintaining dashboards and management information used by leadership and project managers.
• Supporting portfolio and programme forums: preparing materials tracking actions and following up to closure.
• Maintaining RAID logs and helping keep project data accurate and up to date.
• Tooling and automation
• Writing Python scripts and small applications to support PMO workflows including data collection reporting and automation across Jira and Confluence.
• Automating repetitive workflows across Jira and Confluence (status collection reporting page and template updates notifications).
• Building small internal UIs and admin tools with AI coding assistants practical PMO / project-management utilities rather than production trading systems.
• Improve and extend internal PMO / project-management tooling over time (dashboards trackers lightweight apps).
• Documentation and Standards
• Acting as content manager for internal PMO and project documentation: structuring Confluence spaces/pages maintaining quality and freshness and retiring outdated content.
• Creating and curating playbooks project templates training materials and how-to guides so teams can self-serve.
• Continuously improving PMO tooling documentation standards and ways of working lighter process where possible stronger visibility where it matters.
• Project Delivery
• Taking ownership of selected small-to-medium projects as Project Manager (scope plan stakeholders risks delivery and communication).
• Coordinating across engineering business and operations stakeholders to keep work unblocked and on track.

Qualifications

• 13 years of relevant experience in PMO project coordination junior project management business analysis operations tooling or a similar delivery-support role (financial services technology or consulting preferred but not required).
• Ability to code in Python for practical automation and data work (scripts APIs data cleaning/transformation and basic applications); professional software-engineering background is not required.
• Comfort building small UIs / internal tools with AI coding assistance (e.g. simple web interfaces forms dashboards or admin utilities).
• Ability to define and build metrics turning project activity into clear indicators charts and actionable reporting
• Strong written communication and editorial judgment with the ability to act as content manager for internal documentation (structure clarity consistency and upkeep).
• Hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence Strong organisational skills and attention to detail; able to manage multiple work streams without dropping follow-ups.
• Clear verbal communication skills; able to turn messy updates into concise reporting Ability to pivot tasks quickly with the evolving needs of the business and to navigate ambiguous environments while maintaining focus and delivering results.
• Ability to support working across multiple time zones as needed.
• Proactive ownership-oriented mindset; comfortable asking questions challenging gently and driving work to completion.
• Nice to have: dashboarding / BI tools (Looker Power BI Tableau Streamlit Gradio or similar); front-end basics or Python UI frameworks; Jira/Confluence API automation; Agile delivery exposure; prior end-to-end ownership of a small project or workstream; Confluence information architecture or training programme experience; interest in trading or fintech environments.

Benefits

Towers headquarters are in the historic Equitable Building right in the heart of NYCs Financial District and our impact is global with over a dozen offices around the world.

At Tower we believe work should be both challenging and enjoyable. That is why we foster a culture where smart driven people thrive without the egos. Our open concept workplace casual dress code and well-stocked kitchens reflect the value we place on a friendly collaborative environment where everyone is respected and great ideas win.

Our benefits include:

• Generous paid time off policies
• Savings plans and other financial wellness tools available in each region
• Hybrid working opportunities
• Free breakfast lunch and snacks daily
• In-office wellness experiences and reimbursement for select wellness expenses (e.g. gym personal training and more)
• Company-sponsored sports teams and fitness events (JPM Corporate Challenge Cycle for Survival Wall Street Rides FAR and more)
• Volunteer opportunities and charitable giving
• Social events happy hours treats and celebrations throughout the year
• Workshops and continuous learning opportunities

At Tower youll find a collaborative and welcoming culture a diverse team and a workplace that values both performance and enjoyment. No unnecessary hierarchy. No ego. Just great people doing great work together.

Tower Research Capital is an equal opportunity employer.