Technical Project Manager

Job Title: Technical Project Manager
Location: Sheffield (3 days per week on-site)
Salary/Rate: Up to £450 per day
Start Date: Apr / May 2026
Job Type: 8-month contract (Inside IR35)

Introduction:
The Technical Project Manager is responsible for leading complex, cross-functional technology initiatives within the CTO organisation. The role ensures delivery of technical programmes that modernise our global Tier 1 banking clients' technology landscape, improve resilience, and drive strategic simplification. This position requires strong engineering literacy, deep stakeholder management expertise, and the ability to drive execution in a global, matrixed environment.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end to end delivery of multi-disciplinary technical projects, ensuring outcomes align with CTO strategy and architecture standards.
• Partner with engineering leads, architects, and product owners to translate business and technical requirements into structured delivery plans.
• Identify, manage, and mitigate technical risks, dependencies, and issues across teams and platforms.
• Maintain high quality project artefacts including RAID logs, roadmaps, technical delivery plans, budgets, and executive reporting.
• Drive alignment across Engineering, Architecture, Cybersecurity, Service Management, and Business stakeholders.
• Oversee vendor delivery and ensure all third party activity aligns with controls and governance.
• Promote modern engineering practices including automation, DevOps, and continuous improvement

Required Experience & Skills:

• Proven experience delivering large scale technology programmes in financial services or enterprise settings.
• Strong technical understanding of infrastructure, cloud, platforms, and modern engineering methods.
• Excellent communication and senior stakeholder management capability.
• Experience managing complex budgets, multi region delivery, and commercial/vendor structures.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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