Lead Technical Program Manager

Pmi Uae; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services firm is seeking a Project Manager to lead a long-term delivery program within its Liquidity & Cash Management team. This role involves managing project requirements, priorities, and deadlines, while collaborating with multiple stakeholders across the organization. The ideal candidate will have experience with Project Methodologies, strong communication skills, and a desire for continuous improvement. This position also demands a self-starter who can navigate complex relationships and lead through change.

Qualifications

• Ability to define, adapt and implement various Project Methodologies.
• Confident communicator who can distil messages for senior stakeholders.
• Detail-oriented, resilient, and driven individual.
• Experience with JIRA and Agile methodologies.
• Curiosity and commitment to drive improvements and change.

Responsibilities

• Manage strategic program delivery and leadership.
• Lead project management across multiple delivery teams.
• Develop demand and roadmap planning in collaboration with teams.
• Ensure program health and reporting through PMO compliance.
• Manage risks, issues and dependencies effectively.

Skills

Project Methodologies

Communication skills

Relationship building

Attention to detail

Self-starter

JIRA experience

Agile experience

Java knowledge

Job description

Our global Liquidity & Cash Management team are a key function within CIB Banking Technology, responsible for wholesale cash accounts globally (Demand Deposit Accounting), Global Liquidity and associated Middleware, Intraday Liquidity and reporting systems. The teams are based in Bournemouth, Tampa, Tri‑State New York, Singapore, Mumbai and Bangalore. As a member of our Project Execution team, you'll have strengths managing people and processes, delivering technology projects that typically span multiple lines of business and have firm‑wide implications. You will manage these projects from initiation through implementation, including establishing project requirements, priorities and deadlines, ensuring that relevant risk and architecture requirements are in place and working with the teams to agree project budget and resources. In addition to collaborating with your teammates, you'll manage stakeholders across the firm to work toward the best possible outcomes. While this role is rooted in project management, it will also require leadership skills and enable you to make lasting connections throughout JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Job Responsibilities

• Ownership of a long term delivery program, strategic direction and leadership
• Project management across multiple different delivery teams
• Demand & roadmap planning and estimation, working closely with the Product and Technical delivery teams
• Program Health & Status reporting, feeding into the PMO function for Program Governance and Stakeholder engagement
• Management of deliverables through JIRA, reporting with a data driven focus on burndowns and dashboard views
• End to end traceability of deliverables from demand through to implementation
• Responsible for managing change and aligning to relevant releases
• Identifying, managing & escalating risks, issues & dependencies, owning end to end mitigation
• Close partnership and tracking of testing, both internally and with cross‑impacts from engagement, through to delivery
• Implementation preparation and support, including Go/No Go Governance, Command Centres and PVT
• Controls and improvements around the program for relevant process and delivery enhancements

Required capabilities, qualifications and skills

• Ability to define, adapt and implement a variety of Project Methodologies
• Confident communicator, ability to adapt message to different audiences and distil key messages for senior level stakeholders
• Ability to develop effective relationships, and reach across the firm when needed
• Detail orientated, resilient and determined
• Energetic, self‑starting, curious, reliable, committed with a hunger to learn, drive improvements and change
• JIRA and Agile experience
• Java knowledge (coding not required)

Preferred capabilities, qualifications and skills

• Cloud

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first‑class business in a first‑class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long‑term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About the Team

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.