Senior Technical Programme Manager

Oliver James; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Oliver James is seeking a Senior Technical Programme Manager to lead an enterprise-wide Cyber Resilience Programme for an insurance client in Hong Kong. You will oversee end-to-end delivery across multiple workstreams, drive recovery testing, and coordinate across cyber security, infrastructure, and cloud teams to ensure readiness and governance alignment.

The role requires 15+ years of experience delivering large-scale technology programmes in regulated industries, with strong leadership and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end programme delivery across all workstreams, including pilot deployments and regional rollout.
• Drive completion of cyber recovery implementation and testing across corporate functions and local business entities.
• Develop and manage an integrated programme roadmap covering milestones, dependencies, design approvals, implementation milestones, testing and acceptance criteria.
• Monitor risks, issues and dependencies, escalating through programme governance.
• Translate business-defined minimum viable operations and impact tolerances into recovery scope and delivery acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate implementation across cyber security, infrastructure, cloud and technology teams.
• Drive architecture reviews, design approvals, recovery testing and operational readiness.
• Ensure alignment with technology standards, security requirements and resilience objectives; resolve exceptions or formal acceptance.
• Ensure recovery testing meets acceptance criteria, with defects and gaps closed or formally accepted before rollout or handover.

Skills

Programme governance

Financial management

Stakeholder engagement

Delivery leadership

Cyber resilience

Disaster recovery

Infrastructure knowledge

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/Business

Job description

Oliver James is hiring a Senior Technical Programme Manager on behalf of a leading insurance client to lead the end-to-end delivery of an enterprise-wide Cyber Resilience Programme.

Lead end-to-end programme delivery across all workstreams, including pilot deployments and regional rollout.

Drive completion of cyber recovery implementation and testing across corporate functions and local business entities through designated delivery owners.

Develop and manage an integrated programme roadmap covering commitments, dependencies, design approvals, implementation milestones, testing and acceptance criteria.

Monitor risks, issues and dependencies, driving corrective actions and escalating challenges through programme governance.

Translate business-defined minimum viable operations, Important Business Services and impact tolerances into recovery scope, priorities and delivery acceptance criteria.

Technical Delivery Oversight

Coordinate implementation across cyber security, infrastructure, cloud and technology teams.

Drive architecture reviews, design approvals, recovery testing and operational readiness through responsible technical owners.

Ensure alignment with technology standards, security requirements and resilience objectives, with exceptions resolved or formally accepted.

Ensure recovery testing meets approved acceptance criteria, with defects and gaps closed or formally accepted before rollout or handover.

Key Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business or a related discipline.

15+ years' experience delivering large-scale technology or transformation programmes.

Experience managing complex, multi-country initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and vendors.

Proven experience delivering infrastructure or resilience programmes across design, implementation, testing and operational transition.

Experience within insurance, financial services or another regulated industry.

Strong programme governance, financial management, stakeholder engagement and delivery leadership skills.

Strong working knowledge of cyber resilience, cyber recovery, disaster recovery, enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, storage, and backup and recovery solutions.

Ability to challenge technical delivery assumptions and assess recovery test plans, readiness evidence and acceptance criteria.