Project Manager -Technology Change Management; Rates & FX

Role Overview

The successful candidate will bring strong delivery discipline (planning, governance, RAID management, and stakeholder communication) plus sufficient product knowledge to manage priorities and dependencies across a portfolio of work. You will define and communicate delivery roadmaps, manage risks and issues, and drive timely decisions to ensure projects deliver agreed outcomes within appropriate controls.

• Own end to end delivery of technology change across Rates & FX hybrid broking platforms (voice and electronic), including BAU enhancements, regulatory change, and integration programmes.
• Work with business sponsors and portfolio stakeholders to ensure proposed initiatives align to strategic objectives and maintain a clear delivery roadmap for the portfolio.
• Build and manage integrated project plans, milestones, and delivery commitments; track progress and proactively manage dependencies across work streams.
• Coordinate delivery across cross‑functional teams (e.g., IT development, Compliance, Operations, Data, Infrastructure), ensuring clear ownership, sequencing, and operational readiness.
• Implement and own project and portfolio governance routines (status reporting, steering forums, change control), providing appropriate oversight and transparency.
• Identify, track, and mitigate risks and issues with portfolio impact; maintain RAID logs and elevate promptly to protect delivery outcomes.
• Partner with Finance and sponsors to track budgets, forecasts, and approvals; ensure spend is monitored and controlled in line with agreed governance.
• Act as the primary point of contact for delivery communications, providing clear, regular status updates to senior stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Drive delivery execution in SAFe, Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid environments, adapting ways of working to meet business outcomes and control requirements.
• Effectively manage multiple concurrent initiatives with competing deadlines and priorities, remaining flexible in a dynamic environment with changing requirements.
• Leverage AI‑assisted delivery tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, Kiro or equivalent AI‑enabled development/productivity platforms) to improve delivery efficiency, documentation quality, and decision‑making.
• Drive adoption of AI‑enabled workflows across project and delivery teams (e.g., automated status reporting, requirement summarization, backlog refinement, and release readiness tracking).
• Partner with engineering and architecture teams to identify opportunities where AI can accelerate SDLC processes (e.g., test generation, code analysis, incident triage).
• Promote continuous improvement through data‑driven and AI‑supported insights, focusing on delivery predictability, risk reduction, and quality outcomes.

• Essential – Proven track record delivering technology change in financial services, ideally within Rates & FX trading technology (voice, electronic, and hybrid broking). Experience managing multiple projects and work streams, including geographically dispersed and cross‑functional teams. Strong delivery discipline: planning, milestone management, governance routines, and clear status reporting to senior stakeholders. Demonstrated ability to identify, track, and mitigate risks, issues, and dependencies, driving timely decisions to protect delivery outcomes.
  
  Experience working with Finance to track budgets/forecasting and support approval and control processes. Strong understanding of at least one product category:
  Rates (Government and Sovereign Bonds, Repos, Basis Swap, Swaptions, and Inflation Swaps) FX (Spot Forwards, NDFs, and Options) Equities (Cash Equities, Equity Options, and Structured Products) or Credit (Corporate Credit, Single‑Name and Index…