Delivery Lead - Quant Trading Platform (London)

Avanda Group AG; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Avanda Group AG is seeking a Project Manager in London to drive delivery coordination for a Quantitative Investment Strategies trading platform. The role centers on unifying hands-on engineering, platform and business teams to accelerate delivery across the program.

Three days on-site per week, a long-term commitment, and frequent demos to senior sponsors are expected as you translate complex constraints into clear, actionable plans and manage dependencies across teams.

Qualifications

• Hands-on implementation or engineering background is essential.
• Proven delivery of trading platforms or complex technical software programs.
• Ability to coordinate across multiple teams without formal line authority.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Experience in Python-heavy environments, distributed systems, and KDB.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery coordination across interdependent teams with no direct line authority.
• Define and enforce what 'done' means with each engineering team.
• Sort out test environments ensuring end-to-end validation.
• Track every in-flight workstream across the QIS platform scope.
• Demonstrate working software weekly to senior stakeholders.
• Identify cross-team dependencies early and drive resolution.

Skills

Delivery coordination

Agile experience

Python exposure

KDB

Distributed systems

Hands-on engineering background

Trading platforms delivery

Job description

Avanda Group AG is seeking a Project Manager in London to drive delivery coordination for a Quantitative Investment Strategies trading platform. The role centers on unifying hands-on engineering, platform and business teams to accelerate delivery across the program.

Three days on-site per week, a long-term commitment, and frequent demos to senior sponsors are expected as you translate complex constraints into clear, actionable plans and manage dependencies across teams.