Lead Technical Project Manager

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm is seeking a Technical Project Manager to join their Bournemouth team. The role involves managing complex projects across various asset classes, with a focus on delivery, stakeholder management, and collaboration with technical teams. Successful candidates will demonstrate proven project management experience in a global matrix organization, with skills in SQL, Perl, and Agile methodologies.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in technical project delivery.
• Strong experience in managing project teams in global organizations.
• Ability to facilitate problem-solving in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage project deliverables focusing on quality, timeframe, and cost.
• Build and develop technology staff to improve application delivery.
• Ensure reliable and stable application changes.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Management

Agile Practices

Communication Skills

Tools

SQL

Perl

Unix Scripting

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Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to join our CIB Markets/Post Trade Accounting application development team. This role involves working on global projects across multiple Markets asset classes, including FX, Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, F&O, and Stock Borrow Loan. The candidate should be comfortable working in a techno-functional environment, as interaction between developer teams and business groups is required. The Project Manager will take complete responsibility for project delivery, including analysis, solution design, development, testing, user coordination, and production release.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage a complex and varied stream of project deliverables in terms of quality, timeframe, and cost.
• Ensure reliability and stability of applications changes delivered.
• Build, train, and develop the depth and skill of technology staff to improve overall delivery stream and quality of our application portfolio.
• Build strong partnerships with Business, Operations, Finance, and other Technology teams.
• Key stakeholder management.
• Ability to simplify and articulate problems to facilitate solving.
• Good levels of communication skills and reporting ability.

Management and Leadership Skills:

• Ability to build relationships across the enterprise with Lines of Businesses, Technology, and Business where relevant.
• Experience in managing project teams performing multiple projects in parallel.
• Experience working in large global complex matrix organizations.
• Must have excellent interpersonal, relationship, and negotiating skills.
• Ability to effectively manage a complex and demanding book of work.
• Excellent partnership and people management practices.
• Cost consciousness and understanding of total cost of ownership.
• Proven experience in leading Agile teams, fostering a collaborative and adaptive environment to deliver high-quality results.

Technical/Functional Skills:

• Proven experience in technical project delivery, either with a business analysis or development background.
• Knowledge of any RDBMS (e.g., SQL, Oracle), Unix Scripting, Perl. Use of LLM.
• Experience with Investment Banking - managing projects across front-to-back flows. Understanding of expected responsibilities for different transactional processing systems.
• Functional experience in financial applications would be a big advantage.
• Expert understanding of distributed technologies, with the capability to intervene on a hands-on basis as required.
• Provide high-quality technology solutions that address business needs, developing applications within mature technology environments.
• Analyze potential risks and benefits in using specified solutions to address business requirements.
• Collaborate with the team and come up with solutions for any identified problem by the team.
• Must have experience in problem-solving and process improvement.

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About the Team

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.