IT Project Manager (Life and Pensions)

SS&C Technologies; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in Central London seeks an experienced IT Project Manager to deliver complex projects within the Life and Pensions sector. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years in IT infrastructure, strong stakeholder management, and proficiency in project management tools. This role offers a hybrid work model along with a competitive benefits package aimed at supporting employee wellbeing and professional development.

Benefits

Professional Development Reimbursement

Competitive holiday scheme

Competitive benefits

Hands-On, Team-Customised Training

Qualifications

• 5+ years of delivering IT Infrastructure projects in financial services, with essential experience in Life & Pensions.
• Proven ability to deliver across various IT areas e.g. digital solutions, Cloud estate, End of life replacement approaches for SW & HW.
• Demonstrated experience delivering in a regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of multi-stream projects across Life & Pensions.
• Define project scope, objectives, governance, and success metrics.
• Manage cross-functional teams and maintain full financial control.

Skills

IT Infrastructure projects

Stakeholder management

Project management tools

Agile methodologies

Waterfall methodologies

Education

Project Management certification (Prince 2 or Agile)

Tools

MS Project

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Job Description

IT Project Manager (Life and Pensions)

Location: Central London

Get To Know Us:

SS&C is leading the way. We continue to look for todays and tomorrow’s brightest talent, those that embody a spirit to improve not only their lives, but those around them. From college students to seasoned and experienced professionals, we encourage you to apply. SS&C prides itself on hiring diverse, honest, dynamic individuals, who value collaboration, accountability, and innovation to name a few.

The Opportunity

We are looking for an IT Project Manager with a proven track record in leading Life & Pensions programs, platform development, and large-scale BPO initiatives within the financial services sector. This is a high-impact role, offering the opportunity to drive transformation at scale across complex delivery environments.

You will provide support to, and be involved in, the Inception Process for projects including governance, reporting and facilitating the handover from inception to the design and delivery stages of the projects. This will cover complex/higher business priority activities, but you will also be expected to lead a series of projects with less complexity but with equal, or higher, business priority.

The ideal candidate will possess a strong technical foundation, exceptional stakeholder management skills, and a proven track record in managing complex IT projects, including infrastructure, data centres, cloud and application migrations.

What You Will Get To Do:

• Lead end-to-end delivery of multi-stream projects across Life & Pensions, platform upgrades, and outsourcing transformations.
• Define project scope, objectives, governance, and success metrics in collaboration with sponsors and stakeholders.
• Manage cross-functional teams, including technical and operational workstreams, ensuring resource alignment and milestone tracking.
• Maintain full financial control—monitoring budgets, forecasts, and tolerance levels.
• Own project governance, documentation, RAID management, and status reporting.
• Foster strong relationships with internal stakeholders, clients, and third parties.
• Ensure compliance with internal change frameworks and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

What You Will Bring:

• 5+ years of delivering IT Infrastructure projects within financial services, with essential experience in Life & Pensions.
• Demonstrated experience delivering within the Life and Pension sector and/or BPO projects in a regulated environment.
• Proven ability to deliver across various IT areas e.g. digital solutions, Cloud estate, End of life replacement approaches for SW & HW, Hosting solutions and SDLC.
• Proficiency in project management tools (e.g. MS Project, Jira, Confluence), ideally holding a Project Management certification (Prince 2 or Agile).
• Strong Project Management methodology experience across both Agile and Waterfall deliveries.
• Ability to work under pressure, always maintaining a calm and assertive manner.
• Understanding of Software Development Lifecycle standards as well as the full IT Infrastructure (including change management).
• Understanding of ITIL practices and service transition.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University
• Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
• Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.