Strategic Risk Tech Transformation Project Manager

Dataintellect; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid & flexible working

Global opportunities

Learning & development

Job summary

Data Intellect is seeking an experienced Project Manager to drive a Risk Technology transformation for a NYC hedge fund client. You will lead delivery governance, manage plans, and coordinate migrations from legacy systems to a modern platform across cross-functional teams.

You will work with senior technology leadership, developers, quantitative teams, and business stakeholders to keep initiatives on track, escalate risks, and deliver concise executive reporting and dashboards.

Qualifications

• Approximately 5+ years project management experience, ideally within Financial Services, Capital Markets, Banking, FinTech or Technology environments.
• Strong experience with Jira, including dashboard creation, reporting, workflow management and JQL or equivalently SQL or other business intelligence tools
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills, particularly PowerPoint for executive-level presentations and reporting.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Understanding of software development lifecycles and technology delivery processes.
• Comfortable discussing technical concepts with developers, including databases, applications and system integrations.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Flexibility in working hours to overlap with US based teams.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and manage project plans, milestones, dependencies, and delivery roadmaps.
• Track project status, risks, issues, actions, and blockers, ensuring timely escalation where required.
• Produce executive reporting and PowerPoint presentations for senior leadership and programme governance forums.
• Maintain clear traceability between detailed project activities and executive-level reporting.
• Drive day-to-day programme organisation, ensuring strong delivery discipline across teams.
• Manage and maintain Jira boards, ensuring tickets are up to date and accurately reflect delivery progress.
• Create and utilise JQL queries and dashboards to monitor programme health, team performance, risks, and delivery metrics.
• Facilitate daily stand-ups, project meetings, and stakeholder communications.
• Coordinate release planning, system integrations, and migration activities as the organisation transitions from legacy technology to a new platform.
• Identify cross-functional dependencies and ensure effective collaboration across development, quantitative, and business teams.

Skills

Dashboard creation

Reporting

JQL/SQL

Stakeholder management

PowerPoint

MS Office

Communication

Tools

Jira

SQL

Job description

Data Intellect is seeking an experienced Project Manager to drive a Risk Technology transformation for a NYC hedge fund client. You will lead delivery governance, manage plans, and coordinate migrations from legacy systems to a modern platform across cross-functional teams.

You will work with senior technology leadership, developers, quantitative teams, and business stakeholders to keep initiatives on track, escalate risks, and deliver concise executive reporting and dashboards.