Senior Technical Project & PMO Manager

JCDecaux UK Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

JCDecaux UK Ltd is seeking a Senior Technical Project & PMO Manager to lead technology-led transformation, connecting business priorities with architecture and delivery. You will drive programmes from scoping to production with clear ownership and measurable value.

The role emphasizes risk management, governance, and operational readiness, ensuring secure, scalable outcomes and business adoption across projects in London and the UK.

Qualifications

• Strong track record delivering complex technical programmes.
• Experience across cloud, data platforms, and integrations.
• Proven PMO governance and financial control skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex technical programmes across discovery, planning, delivery, transition and closure, managing scope, risks and decisions.
• Coordinate delivery across Azure, applications, integrations, data platforms and digital services, ensuring solutions are secure and supportable.
• Partner with Enterprise and Solution Architecture to manage design decisions, standards, dependencies and roadmap alignment.
• Maintain RAID, dependency tracking, governance packs and delivery confidence reporting.
• Work with engineering, data, service delivery and suppliers to enable delivery, readiness and cutover activities.
• Ensure delivery supports business adoption, sustainable support models and clear documentation.

Skills

Technical programme delivery

Cloud & data

PMO governance

Architecture alignment

Stakeholder leadership

Tools

Azure

Job description

Within JCDecaux UK, the Senior Technical Project & PMO Manager is responsible for leading complex technology-led transformation and strengthening the controls required to deliver scalable, secure and supportable technology change. The role exists to connect business priorities, architecture direction, technical delivery, PMO governance and operational readiness, ensuring programmes move from scoping through delivery into production with clear ownership, risk management and measurable value.

What you’ll be doing

Technical programme delivery: Lead complex technical programmes across discovery, planning, delivery, transition and closure, maintaining control of scope, risks and decisions.

Cloud, applications and integration: Coordinate delivery across Azure, applications, integrations, data platforms and digital services, ensuring solutions are supportable and secure.

Architecture alignment: Partner with Enterprise and Solution Architecture to manage design decisions, technical standards, assumptions, dependencies and roadmap alignment.

PMO governance and control: Maintain clear plans, RAID, dependency tracking, financial impacts, decision logs, governance packs and delivery confidence reporting.

Technical delivery enablement: Work with engineering, applications, data, service delivery and suppliers to remove blockers, coordinate readiness and manage cutover or release activity.

Business value and transition: Ensure technical delivery supports business adoption, support models, documentation, operational readiness and benefits realisation.

What success looks like

Technical programmes are delivered with stronger control, clearer ownership and reduced delivery ambiguity.

Business, architecture and delivery teams are aligned around scope, standards, risks and decisions.

Technical risks, dependencies, design issues and supportability concerns are identified early.

Governance materials provide clear delivery confidence, options and recommended action.

Solutions transition smoothly into support with clear documentation, ownership and business readiness.

A little bit about you

Strong technical programme or project management experience across applications, integration, cloud, data or platforms.

Good understanding of technical delivery lifecycles, testing, release planning, cutover and transition to support.

Experience partnering with Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, engineering, applications, data or suppliers.

Strong PMO capability across RAID, dependencies, governance reporting, financial control and executive updates.

Azure, architecture, project, programme or agile qualifications, or equivalent practical experience, are desirable.

Behaviours and capabilities needed to be effective

Technically curious and able to translate complexity into clear business language.

Structured and calm under pressure, maintaining delivery pace without losing control.

Constructively challenging where technical choices create risk, duplication or supportability issues.

Collaboration across business, architecture, engineering, service and supplier teams.

Outcome-focused, linking technical delivery to adoption, resilience, efficiency and business value.

A little bit more about us

We believe in building a diverse and inclusive culture and positive employee experience. We are One Team, more than just ourselves. We are customer first, we understand, and help solve our customers’ problems. We Test & Learn, we are empowered to learn and grow, unafraid of change. We choose to care, we are committed to doing the right thing, the right way. It’s really important to us that we give as much to our colleagues as they give to us. Our latest Belonging Survey showed that our colleagues feel valued and listened to as we continue to build an environment where everyone can thrive, grow, belong and be their authentic selves. We believe that diversity of thought, experience and background provides the platform for great creativity, We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity.

• Many of our Colleagues work flexibly in many different ways. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

We’re JCDecaux, the world’s largest Digital Out-of-Home media business. You’ll have used or seen our products, services and communication channels, even if you didn’t realise it was us, because they’re at the heart of communities on high streets and major roads and in transport hubs, shopping malls and supermarkets across the country in more than 80 countries worldwide. Our communication channels help businesses grow and thrive, and help non-commercial organisations reach the widest possible audience for their important messages. Our talented team make all this happen, working in a wide variety of roles to connect brands and communities. We’re really proud that 50p in every £1 of revenue is reinvested into the communities we serve, so we can provide innovative, environmentally-responsible infrastructure and services designed to make cities better for everyone. This principle has been at the heart of our business from the beginning. If you join us, you will make a real difference.