Technical Programme Manager – Technology Estate & Modernisation

Essential functions

The Role

As Technical Programme Manager, you will own a portfolio of technology-focused initiatives and ensure that they make consistent progress through to completion.

You will not simply maintain project plans. You'll be expected to understand what needs to happen, establish the delivery approach, coordinate the relevant technical teams, challenge delays and dependencies, and provide senior stakeholders with a clear view of progress and risk.

The role sits at the intersection of technology, engineering and delivery.

Qualifications

The Role

As Technical Programme Manager, you will own a portfolio of technology-focused initiatives and ensure that they make consistent progress through to completion.

You will not simply maintain project plans. You'll be expected to understand what needs to happen, establish the delivery approach, coordinate the relevant technical teams, challenge delays and dependencies, and provide senior stakeholders with a clear view of progress and risk.

The role sits at the intersection of technology, engineering and delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Technology Debt & Modernisation

• Own technology debt initiatives from discovery and scoping through to completion.

• Establish clear objectives, scope, milestones and delivery plans.

• Coordinate engineering, infrastructure, architecture, security and application teams.

• Track progress against agreed milestones and proactively address slippage.

• Identify technical, organisational and dependency-related blockers.

• Ensure initiatives have clear ownership and accountable delivery teams.

• Maintain visibility of outstanding technology risks and remediation activity.

Infrastructure Decommissioning

• Drive programmes to retire obsolete infrastructure and technology components.

• Coordinate discovery and dependency analysis before decommissioning.

• Work with infrastructure and application teams to establish retirement plans.

• Track application, service and infrastructure dependencies.

• Coordinate migration, validation and shutdown activities.

• Ensure decommissioning activities are completed safely and with appropriate technical evidence.

Software Upgrade Programmes

• Coordinate large-scale software and platform upgrades across the technology estate.

• Establish upgrade roadmaps and delivery milestones.

• Work with engineering teams to identify affected applications and dependencies.

• Track adoption and remediation across multiple teams.

• Escalate risks where teams or systems are unable to meet upgrade deadlines.

• Coordinate testing, release and implementation activities where required.

Security & Vulnerability Remediation

• Coordinate remediation programmes arising from identified security vulnerabilities.

• Work closely with security, infrastructure and engineering teams to understand remediation requirements.

• Ensure vulnerabilities are appropriately prioritised and assigned.

• Track remediation through to deployment and closure.

• Identify blockers preventing teams from addressing vulnerabilities.

• Provide clear reporting on outstanding risks, remediation progress and dependencies.

Engineering Quality

• Drive initiatives designed to improve software engineering quality.

• Coordinate programmes such as improving automated test coverage.

• Work with engineering teams to understand current levels of coverage and identify gaps.

• Establish measurable objectives and delivery milestones.

• Track progress across applications and teams.

• Help ensure quality improvements become part of normal engineering delivery rather than isolated exercises.

Parent Banking Group Migration

• Support programmes migrating systems into the wider parent banking group's technology environment.

• Coordinate application, infrastructure, architecture, security and platform stakeholders.

• Track migration dependencies and readiness criteria.

• Manage delivery risks and issues across multiple technical teams.

• Ensure migration activities have clear ownership, milestones and completion criteria.

Programme Governance & Reporting

A core part of the role will be establishing a consistent delivery cadence across the portfolio.

You will:

• Establish clear programme plans and delivery milestones.

• Maintain RAID logs covering risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies.

• Track actions and decisions through to completion.

• Produce concise status reporting for technology leadership.

• Highlight material risks and blockers early.

• Maintain clear dependency maps across teams and initiatives.

• Establish regular programme and stakeholder forums where appropriate.

• Ensure stakeholders understand what is progressing, what is blocked and what requires intervention.

• Provide evidence-based reporting rather than relying solely on subjective status updates.

The expectation is that reporting will be clear, concise and actionable.

Technical Delivery

This is a technical programme management position rather than a traditional business transformation or change-management role.

You will be expected to engage with technical teams at a meaningful level and understand the substance behind delivery plans.

You should be comfortable asking questions such as:

• What is actually preventing this upgrade from being completed?

• Which applications depend on this infrastructure?

• What technical work remains before this system can be decommissioned?

• Is the vulnerability genuinely remediated, or has the risk simply been accepted or deferred?

• What environments need to be upgraded?

• What testing is required before release?

• Which team owns the remaining dependency?

• What architectural decision is blocking delivery?

• What evidence do we need to consider the initiative complete?

You won't necessarily be writing the code or implementing the infrastructure yourself, but you should be technically credible enough to understand the answers and challenge delivery assumptions when necessary.

Stakeholder Management

You will work with a broad range of technical stakeholders, including:

• Software engineers

• Infrastructure engineers

• Platform teams

• Systems architects

• Security teams

• Application owners

• Technology leadership

• Engineering managers

• Programme and project managers

• Teams within the wider parent banking group

You will need to adapt your communication to different audiences while maintaining a consistent view of programme status.

At senior levels, this means communicating succinctly around:

Progress → Risks → Dependencies → Decisions → Actions

At engineering level, it means engaging in enough technical detail to understand what is actually required to deliver the work.

What We're Looking For

Essential Experience

• Proven experience working as a Technical Programme Manager, Technical Project Manager or similar technical delivery role.

• Experience running IT, infrastructure or engineering initiatives, rather than primarily business change programmes.

• Experience delivering initiatives such as:

  • Infrastructure decommissioning

  • Technology upgrades

  • Security remediation

  • Vulnerability remediation

  • Platform migrations

  • Technology modernisation

  • Engineering quality initiatives

• A strong technical background and the ability to work credibly with engineers and infrastructure teams.

• Experience managing multiple initiatives or workstreams simultaneously.

• Strong planning, tracking and organisational skills.

• Experience identifying and managing technical dependencies.

• Experience managing delivery risks and blockers.

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

• Ability to work independently and take ownership of initiatives from inception through completion.

• Ability to communicate technical delivery status clearly to senior technology stakeholders.

Technical Understanding

You don't need to be a hands-on engineer, but you should have sufficient technical depth to understand modern enterprise technology environments.

Relevant experience could include familiarity with:

• Infrastructure and cloud platforms

• Application architecture

• Software development lifecycles

• Enterprise applications

• APIs and distributed systems

• Databases

• Operating systems and infrastructure

• Networking

• Security vulnerabilities and remediation

• Software upgrades and patching

• Application migrations

• CI/CD and release processes

• Automated testing

• Technology lifecycle management

The precise technology stack is less important than your ability to understand technical delivery problems and work effectively with engineering teams.

Would be a plus

Desirable Experience

Experience in any of the following would be beneficial:

• Financial services

• Asset management

• Investment banking

• Banking technology

• Highly regulated environments

• Large enterprise technology estates

• Technology debt programmes

• Legacy technology modernisation

• Infrastructure transformation

• Cloud migration

• Data-centre or infrastructure decommissioning

• Enterprise application migrations

• Cybersecurity remediation programmes

• Software lifecycle management

• Technology governance

• Working with architecture functions

• Working across multiple engineering teams

• Parent/subsidiary technology integration

Personal Attributes

Technically Credible

You can engage comfortably with engineers, architects and infrastructure specialists and understand the technical substance behind their delivery commitments.

Organised

You can manage multiple concurrent initiatives without losing track of actions, dependencies, risks or deadlines.

Self-Directed

You don't need a detailed instruction set to get started. You identify what needs to happen, establish structure and drive the work forward.

Delivery-Focused

You care about outcomes and completion rather than simply maintaining project plans and producing status reports.

Pragmatic

You understand that enterprise technology environments contain constraints and dependencies. You focus on finding practical routes through them.

Clear Communicator

You can take a complicated technical situation and communicate the important facts clearly to both engineers and senior leadership.

Collaborative

You build effective relationships across engineering, infrastructure, security, architecture and management teams.

Persistent

Technology debt initiatives can involve long-running dependencies and competing priorities. You are comfortable maintaining momentum and following issues through to resolution.

What Success Looks Like

Success in this role means establishing clear ownership and momentum across a portfolio of technical initiatives.

Within the role, you will help create:

• Clear visibility of technology debt and remediation work.

• Well-defined ownership for each initiative.

• Realistic delivery plans and milestones.

• Consistent tracking and reporting.

• Early identification of delivery risks.

• Effective management of cross-team dependencies.

• Faster resolution of technical blockers.

• Clear escalation when intervention is required.

• Successful completion of infrastructure decommissioning and upgrade programmes.

• Improved security remediation progress.

• Measurable improvements in engineering quality.

• Successful migration of systems into the parent banking group's environment.

Most importantly, the organisation should have confidence that important technical initiatives are being actively driven rather than sitting within individual teams without clear programme ownership.

Working Environment

You will be embedded within the technology organisation of a leading global asset management firm.

You'll work closely with an established Technical Programme Manager and the systems architecture leadership team, while coordinating delivery across multiple technology functions.

The environment is likely to involve complex enterprise systems, legacy technology, multiple dependencies and competing engineering priorities.

This makes the ability to understand technical detail while maintaining a clear programme-level perspective particularly important.

Location & Working Pattern

Location: City of London, UK

Working model: Hybrid

Office attendance: 3 days per week

The role requires regular interaction with technology teams and leadership, making in-person collaboration an important part of the engagement.

Employment Options

JUXT is considering both:

• Permanent employment

• Contract engagements

Specific contractual arrangements and commercial terms will be discussed as part of the recruitment process.

Why Join the Engagement?

This is an opportunity to take ownership of a newly established technical programme management function within a sophisticated financial-services technology environment.

Rather than managing a single conventional project, you will have responsibility for a portfolio of initiatives addressing some of the fundamental challenges of maintaining and modernising a large technology estate.

The role offers exposure to:

• Enterprise technology strategy

• Infrastructure modernisation

• Technology debt

• Cybersecurity remediation

• Software engineering

• Systems architecture

• Application migration

• Technology governance

• Financial-services technology

You'll also have the opportunity to establish delivery practices and bring greater structure and visibility to an important area of technology investment.

Role Summary

JUXT is looking for a Technical Programme Manager to take end-to-end ownership of technology debt and modernisation initiatives for a leading global asset management firm.

The successful candidate will be a technically credible programme manager who understands engineering and infrastructure environments and can turn complex, distributed technical work into structured, measurable delivery programmes.

You will coordinate initiatives ranging from infrastructure decommissioning and software upgrades to vulnerability remediation, engineering quality improvements and migration into the wider parent banking group.

The role requires someone who is organised, technically credible, self-directed and delivery-focused, with the ability to work effectively with engineers while providing concise and reliable visibility to technology leadership.

We offer

• Opportunity to work on bleeding-edge projects
• Work with a highly motivated and dedicated team
• Competitive salary
• Flexible schedule
• Benefits package - medical insurance, sports
• Corporate social events
• Professional development opportunities
• Well-equipped office

About us

Grid Dynamics (NASDAQ: GDYN) is a leading provider of technology consulting, platform and product engineering, AI, and advanced analytics services. Fusing technical vision with business acumen, we solve the most pressing technical challenges and enable positive business outcomes for enterprise companies undergoing business transformation. A key differentiator for Grid Dynamics is our 8 years of experience and leadership in enterprise AI, supported by profound expertise and ongoing investment in data, analytics, cloud & DevOps, application modernization and customer experience. Founded in 2006, Grid Dynamics is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices across the Americas, Europe, and India.