Technology Project Manager

About The Business

Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business, helping to enable brighter financial futures for every generation.

Quilter oversees £141.9 billion in customer investments as of 31 March 2026. It offers financial advice, investment platforms, multi‑asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management, divided into Affluent and High Net Worth segments.

Affluent includes the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform, and Quilter Investors. High Net Worth covers discretionary fund management via Quilter Cheviot and Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning, offering a highly personalised service to private clients, charities, trustees and professional partners, with presence across the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands.

Quilter never stands still. Our foundations are rooted in exceptional expertise, trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, and we have big ambitions to stay ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve, including our colleagues.

Our business is transforming, continually modernising and becoming more customer‑centric. If you want to be bold in pursuing ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge to evolve what we do, it is the perfect time to join us!

Level: 4
Department: Technology
Location: Southampton
Contract type: Permanent

Technology department is Quilter Group’s primary engine for technology change, delivering robust infrastructure and IT service operations that everyone can depend upon. It brings technology‑enabled innovation to market by developing relevant, integrated and optimised solutions that are scalable, commercially viable and deliver long‑term value aligned to the business strategy.

Working as a strategic partner to the business, our mission is to build informed and robust future‑orientated technology and skills capabilities, creating an environment for people and business to prosper, focusing on reducing complexity and excelling in strategy execution.

The team seeks a dynamic Technical Project Manager to help deliver the technology portfolio of work.

As part of the team, you will be responsible for:

• Delivering projects in partnership with key stakeholders to meet agreed milestones, priorities, standards and budget.
• Defining project organization structures and resourcing models, negotiating with third‑party supply teams to deliver projects effectively.
• Leading project inter‑dependencies and constraints, adhering to governance processes, standards and reporting.
• Managing project risks and issues, impact‑assessing, mitigating, and escalating appropriately.
• Monitoring project performance through clearly defined metrics and KPIs.
• Measuring and tracking project finances, progress against milestones and quality, taking corrective action where necessary.
• Ensuring project plans are produced, actively maintained, detailed and consistently aligned to the overall plan.

The Technical Project Manager will have experience managing software development projects, delivery of digital products, data migrations or platform migrations, preferably in an enterprise environment.

Experience in the financial sector is not essential but advantageous, as delivering technical changes may require business understanding within a well‑governed change environment.

We work with waterfall and agile methods, using tools such as Jira, Microsoft Project and Project Online.

The individual will have the following capabilities:

• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle, including environment structures, testing phases and release disciplines.
• Effectively manages change and initiates improved ways of working that positively impact customers.
• Communicates with clarity and impact; demonstrates excellent listening, verbal and written communication skills.
• Data‑curious mindset with analytical skills to shape initiatives.
• Detail‑conscious, demonstrating task and finance control.
• Objectively and systematically analyses problems and risks to develop appropriate mitigating solutions.
• Agile and effective decision‑making within remit, executing quickly and focussed.
• Collaborates…