Program Manager

S&P Global; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company specialized in financial technology seeks a Program Manager with over 15 years of experience. The role involves managing significant project initiatives, collaborating across global teams, and requires strong analytical and leadership skills. Candidates who excel in fast-paced environments and demonstrate flexibility are encouraged to apply.

Benefits

Health care coverage

Generous time off

Continuous learning resources

Competitive pay and financial wellness programs

Family friendly benefits

Retail discounts and referral awards

Qualifications

• 15+ years of professional experience required.
• Experience in requirements elicitation and stakeholder management is essential.
• Postgraduate degree preferred with a good understanding of financial derivatives.

Responsibilities

• Manage project change and collaborate with product owners and development teams.
• Conduct gap analysis and communicate requirements to QA and development teams.
• Lead product acceptance testing during development phases.

Skills

Communication

Analytical Skills

Stakeholder Management

Organizational Skills

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in a related subject

Tools

Microsoft Office

Visio

Job description

About the Role:

The Role: Program Manager

The Team: The OSTTRA Technology team is composed of Solutions Engineering Technology professionals, who build, support, and protect the applications that operate our network. The technology landscape includes high-performance, high-volume applications as well as compute-intensive applications, leveraging contemporary microservices, cloud-based architectures.

The Impact: Together, we build, support, protect, and manage high-performance, resilient platforms that process more than 100 million messages a day. Our services are vital to automated trade processing around the globe, managing peak volumes and working with our customers and regulators to ensure the efficient settlement of trades and the effective operation of global capital markets.

What’s in it for you: Program Delivery Team has a requirement for a Program Manager with 15+ years of experience (L9 level) to support key SE led initiatives like SSO, API Strategy and Connectivity. As a Program Manager, you’ll be working closely with product owners, development, QA, and operation teams in an Agile environment.

The role requires the candidate to have excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong organizational/coordination skills, and strong analytical skills. The successful candidate will be process-oriented and have a good understanding of the product development lifecycle. The candidate should be comfortable in a fast-paced environment and be flexible to adapt to changes.

The candidate will work closely with other Program Managers and Product Managers to deliver project change.

The candidate will be expected to work with teams in India, Singapore, Tokyo, New York, and London and build relationships internally as well as externally with clients.

Responsibilities:

• Experience in requirements elicitation, structured analysis, and stakeholder management in a waterfall and/or agile environment.
• Able to undertake gap analysis and express in the form of user stories or functional specifications and communicate to Development and QA teams.
• Collaborate with Development and Quality Assurance to ensure implementation meets business requirements.
• Product Acceptance testing of new features during the development phase & review of test cases.
• Able to identify options for potential solutions, including assessment of technical and business suitability.
• Able to conduct public presentations of concepts and ideas comfortably.
• Experience working as a Product owner in an agile scrum team and a keen interest in new technology would be beneficial.
• Proven experience in project leadership and decision-making.

What We’re Looking For:

• Postgraduate – Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree preferred.
• Degree in a related subject.
• 15+ years of relevant professional experience.
• An understanding of financial derivatives terms and principles.
• Prior Financial Services IT experience.
• Strong Analytical & Communication skills.
• Good Knowledge of requirements elicitation, structured analysis, requirement documentation, stakeholder management, use case and user story definition, and other Business Analysis techniques.
• Exposure to SQL, Object-oriented languages (general technology know-how).
• Good knowledge of OTC derivatives.
• Commercial awareness and financial services experience.
• Qualifications in Business Analysis/Product Management related subjects.
• Microsoft Office/Visio skills.
• Demonstrate experience in working in a product management environment and an organizational setting.

About OSTTRA

Candidates should note that OSTTRAis an independentfirm, jointly owned by S&P Global and CME Group. As part of the joint venture, S&P Global providesrecruitmentservices to OSTTRA - however, successful candidates will be interviewed and directly employed by OSTTRA, joiningour global team of more than 1,200 posttrade experts.

OSTTRA was formed in 2021 through the combination of four businesses that have been at the heart of post trade evolution and innovation for the last 20+ years: MarkitServ, Traiana, TriOptima and Reset. OSTTRA is a joint venture, owned 50/50 by S&P Global and CME Group.

With an outstanding track record of developing and supporting critical market infrastructure, our combined network connects thousands of market participants to streamline end to end workflows -from trade capture at the point of execution, through portfolio optimization, to clearing and settlement.

Joining the OSTTRA team is a unique opportunity to help build a bold new business with an outstanding heritage in financial technology, playing a central role in supporting global financial markets.

Learn more atwww.osttra.com.

What’s In It For You?

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you cantake care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include:

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.

• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.

• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.

• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

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Equal Opportunity Employer

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.

If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: [e-mail] and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.

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