Engineering Programme Manager: Lead Cross-Functional Tech

Thought Machine; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Life insurance

Parental leave

Shared parental leave

25 days holiday

Flexible working hours

Cycle-to-work

Electric car scheme

Season ticket loan

Learning resources

Hobby clubs

Fresh fruit

Job summary

Thought Machine is seeking an Engineering Programme Manager to lead complex multi-team tech programmes. You will plan milestones, coordinate schedules, and drive continuous improvement across fast-paced engineering groups.

You’ll translate product goals into actionable roadmaps, manage stakeholder expectations, and ensure high quality delivery in a modern microservices stack. Join a fast-growing fintech with a strong engineering culture, competitive pay, and a comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• Proven track record managing cross-functional technical initiatives within a top tier technology company.
• Understand a modern microservice-based technology stack (Kubernetes, Kafka, AWS/GCP) built on a CI/CD pipeline.
• Good understanding of the full software development lifecycle (product management, engineering, testing, operations).
• Self-starter, able to operate autonomously to lead large multi-disciplinary efforts.
• Excellent organisational, written, and presentation skills building strong relationships with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage technical programmes: planning, setting milestones and success criteria and coordination of complex multi-team, multi-month engineering programmes.
• Communicate schedules, priorities and updates to all levels in the company.
• 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.
• Collaborate with large cross-functional teams.
• 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.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Programme management

Technical leadership

Self-starter

Stakeholder management

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

AWS

GCP

CI/CD

Job description

Thought Machine is seeking an Engineering Programme Manager to lead complex multi-team tech programmes. You will plan milestones, coordinate schedules, and drive continuous improvement across fast-paced engineering groups.

You’ll translate product goals into actionable roadmaps, manage stakeholder expectations, and ensure high quality delivery in a modern microservices stack. Join a fast-growing fintech with a strong engineering culture, competitive pay, and a comprehensive benefits package