Lead delivery coherence for a strategic investment platform across engineering, quantitative, infrastructure, IT, and business teams. Manage dependencies, testing strategies, environments, risks, integration challenges, delivery evidence, performance benchmarks, stakeholder communications, prioritization, and resourcing. The role requires experience in investment banking or quantitative finance, exposure to quantitative investment strategies and systematic platforms, collaboration with quant researchers and developers, and technical fluency across architecture, infrastructure, and integration.
Technical Programme Manager – Strategic 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.
As part of a strategic multi-year programme, they are building and scaling a next-generation investment platform designed to support complex, data-driven financial strategies at institutional scale.
This is a senior individual contributor role, sitting at the intersection of technology delivery and financial markets.You 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.
Responsibilities :
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
Benefits
Attractive Package
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