Project Manager - #2121360
eFinancialCareers
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: London
Contract type: Full time
Work schedule: Full day
Job Purpose
We are seeking a Project Manager with extensive experience leading complex, cross-functional software initiatives. As a member of the Product & Engineering organization, you will play a critical role in driving strategic programs, aligning execution with business goals, and ensuring predictable, high-quality delivery across multiple teams. You will work in a fast-paced environment, closely collaborating with Engineering, QA, Product, UX, Management, and Customer Support, while providing leadership, direction, and mentorship across projects.
Agile project manager, focusing on strategic delivery and scalable execution by applying advanced planning, estimation, dependency management, and continuous stakeholder alignment throughout the project and program lifecycle.
Responsibilities
Knowledge and Experience
Preferred Knowledge and Experience
We are seeking a Project Manager with extensive experience leading complex, cross-functional software initiatives. As a member of the Product & Engineering organization, you will play a critical role in driving strategic programs, aligning execution with business goals, and ensuring predictable, high-quality delivery across multiple teams. You will work in a fast-paced environment, closely collaborating with Engineering, QA, Product, UX, Management, and Customer Support, while providing leadership, direction, and mentorship across projects.
Agile project manager, focusing on strategic delivery and scalable execution by applying advanced planning, estimation, dependency management, and continuous stakeholder alignment throughout the project and program lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-team initiatives and long-term programs.
- Define project and program strategies, scope, milestones, success metrics, and delivery roadmaps.
- Lead cross-functional planning, prioritization, and execution across multiple concurrent projects.
- Proactively manage risks, dependencies, and cross-team impacts, driving timely resolution.
- Serve as the primary point of accountability for delivery commitments, timelines, and quality.
- Provide clear, concise, and proactive communication to senior leadership and executive stakeholders.
- Drive continuous improvement of project management standards, tools, and delivery frameworks.
- Support release readiness, post-deployment reviews, and operational handover.
Knowledge and Experience
- Expert experience managing complex software development projects, including multi-team programs.
- Proven track record of delivering large-scale initiatives in Agile environment.
- Strong expertise in project governance, dependency management, and executive-level reporting.
- Excellent leadership, facilitation, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills.
- Ability to translate business objectives into executable delivery plans.
- Deep experience working with engineering teams and strong understanding of software development lifecycles.
- High degree of ownership, accountability, and ability to operate independently.
- Strong proficiency with project management and collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence tools).
- English at a high level.
- Bachelor's degree in business, information systems, computer science, or an equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience.
- Bachelor's degree in business, information systems, computer science, or an equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience.
Preferred Knowledge and Experience
- Experience in financial services, trading platforms, or real-time, high-availability systems.
- Project management certification.
- Experience managing programs across distributed or international teams.
- Experience influencing at the executive level in fast-growing, product-driven organizations.
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