Our financial services client is looking for a Lead Technical Program Manager with hands on experience with major project roll outs.

This position will be responsible to efficiently deliver cost effective, quality change in a timely manner matched to the business priorities and the commitments to product partners.

Why work as a contractor with Allen Recruitment:

• Simple online contracts
• Online timesheets
• Self-billing
• Regular on time payments (not related to when the client pays)

As a Lead Technical Program Manager you will:

• Drive multiple simultaneous projects with multiple vendors and stakeholders, requiring development, operating model changes and implementation work across different business areas
• Apply project management and agile methodology skills to manage scope, plan work, coordinate resource deployment on tasks, analyse risks/develop mitigation strategies and proactively resolve issues
• Provide leadership and perspective, and drive stakeholders to decisions in ambiguous situations
• Gather, understand, document, and communicate project requirements
• Ensure solutions meet customer requirements
• Develop and manage detailed plans
• Ensure governance, planning and tracking is in place to successfully deliver project objectives
• Monitor project costs against budget
• Manage third party providers
• Maintain project logs including risks and issues, assumptions, and decisions – managing and escalating as appropriate
• Manage change requests and scope creep
• Report on project progress internally and communicate appropriately with all stakeholders

• Proven experience leading major projects/rollouts
• Experience in project management and the delivery of projects
• Demonstrated ability to operate with independence and autonomy
• Proven experience in managing third party providers
• Applied technical understanding and ability to apply logical thinking
• Good interpersonal and communication skills (including presentation skills)
• Ability to build excellent relationships in a collaborative way both internally and externally
• Understanding of the development lifecycle