Senior Program Manager Investment Platform

Avanda Group AG; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Avanda Group AG is seeking a Technical Programme Manager for a strategic investment platform in partnership with a leading global bank. You will own end-to-end delivery across multiple engineering teams, coordinating with quant researchers, platform engineers and senior sponsors to ensure coherent, evidence-based progress.

The role is senior and requires hands-on coordination with Quant researchers and developers, technical fluency across architecture and infrastructure, and strong communication

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering complex technology programmes in investment banking or quantitative finance environments.
• Direct exposure to QIS (Quantitative Investment Strategies) or systematic investment platforms; understanding how strategies are researched, backtested and industrialised.
• Hands-on experience coordinating with Quant researchers and Quant developers.
• Technical fluency across software architecture, infrastructure and integration.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery coherence across multiple interdependent engineering teams.
• Identify, track and resolve cross-team dependencies before they become blockers.
• Establish and enforce evidence-based delivery cycles — working integrations, demonstrated interfaces, measurable performance benchmarks.
• Define and oversee testing strategies; ensure appropriate environments are available and maintained.
• Surface risks, unknowns and integration challenges early and track them systematically.
• Translate technical complexity into clear, accurate narratives for senior business stakeholders.
• Manage expectations proactively — communicating constraints, trade-offs and realistic delivery horizons.
• Challenge assumptions, validate claims and identify inefficiencies across the programme.
• Support resourcing and prioritisation decisions in collaboration with team leads.

Skills

Programme management

Cross-functional coordination

Stakeholder communication

Technical leadership

Risk management

Delivery governance

Tools

Python

C++

Distributed data systems

Market data infrastructure

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Job Description

Technical Programme Manager – Strategic Investment Platform

We are working with a prestigious, long-standing client in the global banking sector a recognised leader in quantitative finance and structured investment products.

As part of a strategic multi-year programme, they are building and scaling a next-generation investment platform designed to support complex, data-driven financial strategies at institutional scale.

This is a senior individual contributor role, sitting at the intersection of technology delivery and financial markets.You will be the responsible for making its delivery coherent, evidenced and continuous, coordinating across a broad set of engineering, quant and business stakeholders in a large matrix organisation.

Responsibilities :

Reporting to the Head of the Investment Platform, you will work closely with platform engineering teams, quantitative developers, IT infrastructure and a range of business users and senior sponsors.

• Own end-to-end delivery coherence across multiple interdependent engineering teams
  
• Identify, track and resolve cross-team dependencies before they become blockers
  
• Establish and enforce evidence-based delivery cycles — working integrations, demonstrated interfaces, measurable performance benchmarks
  
• Define and oversee testing strategies; ensure appropriate environments are available and maintained
  
• Surface risks, unknowns and integration challenges early and track them systematically
  
• Translate technical complexity into clear, accurate narratives for senior business stakeholders
  
• Manage expectations proactively — communicating constraints, trade-offs and realistic delivery horizons
  
• Challenge assumptions, validate claims and identify inefficiencies across the programme
  
• Support resourcing and prioritisation decisions in collaboration with team leads
  

Requirements

• Proven experience delivering complex technology programmes in investment banking or quantitative finance environments
  
• Direct exposure to QIS (Quantitative Investment Strategies) or systematic investment platforms; understanding how strategies are researched, backtested and industrialised
  
• Hands-on experience coordinating with Quant researchers and Quant developers
  
• Technical fluency across software architecture, infrastructure and integration
  
• Familiarity with quant technology ecosystems (Python, C++, distributed data systems, market data infrastructure)
  
• Background in structured products, equity derivatives or passive/systematic investment platforms is a strong advantage
  
• Comfortable operating without direct line authority across Quant, Tech, IT and Business teams in large matrix organisationsDirect and confident communicator — you adapt your message to your audience without losing accuracy