Engineering Programme Manager - London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - 296 - Company

General information

Job Title

Engineering Programme Manager

City

London

Country

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Division

Engineering

Department

Engineering Programme Management

Description

Thought Machine’s mission is bold - to properly and permanently rid the world’s banks of legacy technology. To achieve this, we have developed the foundations of modern banking through core and payments technology which run natively in the cloud. What we are attempting is hard and means we need great people working together to build great technology.

We have grown rapidly in the past few years - growing our team to more than 550 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore and Sydney. We have raised more than $500m in funding and are now valued at $2.7bn. Our investors include Molten Ventures, Eurazeo, Intesa Sanpaolo, Temasek, Nyca Partners, JPMorgan Chase Strategic Investments, Standard Chartered Ventures, and more.

We have created a culture enabling our team to produce the best work in the industry, ensuring we have fun along the way. We're regularly cited as having a fantastic workplace culture and have been recognised by Sifted magazine as having one of the highest Glassdoor ratings for a UK fintech company and the most generous employee share package in the industry. Global Finance Magazine named us one of the world’s most innovative fintechs, and the Financial Times recognised us as one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies in 2023.

Engineering Programme Managers at Thought Machine are responsible for the delivery of complex technical programmes within the engineering division. We take a leading role in forming and planning each programme and support engineering departments that contribute to the programme’s success.

Duties

Manage technical programmes from initiation through to completion of complex multi-team, multi-month engineering programmes.
Support the delivery of the product roadmap including planning, delivery management and release management across multiple teams.
Report progress, issues, dependencies and risks to relevant stakeholders and prepare/make recommendations to facilitate decision making to support successful delivery and outcome realisation.
Support engineering departments to identify alignment gaps and reduce overhead.
Have a good understanding of the product and the technical skills to be able to dive into details to drive programmes forward.
Be outcome focussed and ensure everything we do supports the intended programme objectives.
Be engaged and energetic, helping to drive continuous improvement across the engineering organisation in a very fast paced and dynamic environment
Develop tools and optimise processes to improve productivity and efficiency.

Requirements

Essential

Proven track record managing software programmes and other cross-functional technical initiatives within a top tier technology company.
Timely delivery is not your only objective: you obsess over quality, reliability and product value.
Understand a modern microservice-based technology stack (Kubernetes, Kafka, AWS/GCP) built on a CI/CD pipeline.
Inquisitive mind and is motivated by solving problems.
Self-starter, able to operate autonomously to lead large multi-disciplinary efforts.
Excellent organisational, written, and presentation skills building strong relationships with stakeholders.

Desirable

Knowledge or experience in the retail banking industry.
Experience as a software engineer, an infrastructure engineer or some other technical role.
Experience defining, developing and managing processes to support product planning and delivery, particularly at scale.

Benefits

Highly competitive salary
Pension plan (match up to 7%)
Life insurance - three times annual salary
Competitive maternity (six months fully paid) and paternity leave (four weeks fully paid)
Shared parental leave (matched to our maternity leave for the same point in time)
25 days holiday and bank holidays
Private health insurance with Bupa for you and your family
Health cash plan (including dental and optical)
Flexible working hours
Cycle-to-work scheme
Electric car scheme
Season ticket loan
Access to outstanding learning materials and courses
Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine
All the latest tech you need
Start the day properly with fresh fruit and cereals
Huge range of healthy (and not-so-healthy) snacks, smoothies and drinks
A talented and experienced team as your colleagues
An environment where we encourage learning and progress
Two charity days a year
Weekly food pop-up

Thought Machine is committed to making a measurable positive impact on people's everyday lives. We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.

We actively hire candidates who demonstrate technical excellence in their field and welcome people of all ages and backgrounds, providing everyone with equal access to professional development. You are encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't accurately match the job description. We also encourage applications from those with different abilities, including candidates with ADHD, autism, dyslexia or dyspraxia.

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