Technical Project Manager (Banking)

Job Title:Technical Project Manager (Banking)
Location: Sheffield (3x days on-site per week)
Salary/Rate: £443 inside IR35 per day
Start Date: April
Job Type: Initial contract until 30/11/2026

Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading consultancy clients! They are currently looking for a skilled Technical Project Manager to join their Tier 1 Banking client.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives
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 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.

• 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 our clients controls and governance.
• Promote modern engineering practices including automation, DevOps, and continuous improvement.

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

• 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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