Hybrid Project Manager — Risk Tech Transformation

Data-Intellect; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid & flexible working

Global opportunities

Continuous learning

Clear progression pathways

Healthcare & wellbeing

Flexible holiday allowance

Referral bonuses

Job summary

Data Intellect is recruiting a Project Manager to support a strategic Risk Technology transformation for a New York-based hedge fund client. You’ll drive delivery governance, maintain plans, and coordinate migration from legacy systems to a modern risk platform.

Collaborating with senior technology leaders, developers, quantitative teams and business stakeholders, you’ll ensure progress, mitigate risks, and report to executives with clear, concise updates for governance forums.

Qualifications

• Approximately 5+ years project management experience, ideally within Financial Services, Capital Markets, Banking, FinTech or Technology environments.
• Strong experience with Jira, including dashboard creation, reporting, workflow managementand JQLor equivalently SQL or other business intelligence tools
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills, particularly PowerPoint for executive-level presentations and reporting.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Understanding of software development lifecycles and technology delivery processes.
• Comfortable discussing technical concepts with developers, including databases, applicationsand system integrations.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Flexibility in working hours to overlap with US based teams.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and manage project plans, milestones, dependencies, and delivery roadmaps.
• Track project status, risks, issues, actions, and blockers, ensuring timely escalation where required.
• Produce executive reporting and PowerPoint presentations for senior leadership and programme governance forums.
• Maintain clear traceability between detailed project activities and executive-level reporting.
• Drive day-to-day programme organisation, ensuring strong delivery discipline across teams.
• Manage and maintain Jira boards, ensuring tickets are up to date and accurately reflect delivery progress.
• Create and utilise JQL queries and dashboards to monitor programme health, team performance, risks, and delivery metrics.
• Facilitate daily stand-ups, project meetings, and stakeholder communications.
• Coordinate release planning, system integrations, and migration activities as the organisation transitions from legacy technology to a new platform.
• Identify cross-functional dependencies and ensure effective collaboration across development, quantitative, and business teams.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Financial services knowledge

Problem solving

Tools

Jira

SQL/BI tools

PowerPoint

Job description

Data Intellect is recruiting a Project Manager to support a strategic Risk Technology transformation for a New York-based hedge fund client. You’ll drive delivery governance, maintain plans, and coordinate migration from legacy systems to a modern risk platform.

Collaborating with senior technology leaders, developers, quantitative teams and business stakeholders, you’ll ensure progress, mitigate risks, and report to executives with clear, concise updates for governance forums.