Program Manager

We are a team of around 200+ people distributed globally and are engaged in a wide array of projects touching all business units (Institutional Securities, Investment Management, Wealth Management) and functions (e.g. Operations, Finance, Risk, Trading, Treasury, Resilience) across the Firm.

The team vision is a multi-year effort to simplify firm’s data architecture and business processes front-to-back with goals of reducing infrastructure and manpower costs, improving the ability to demonstrate control of data, empowering developers by providing consistent means of handling data, facilitate data-driven insights & decision making.

**Job Location**: Glasgow, UK (Hybrid)

We are looking for a **Technical Program Manager** and business analyst who can:

**PMO & Governance**

o Drive consolidated program planning and manage overall timelines.

o Oversee program risks and issues (**RAID**), including tracking, resolution, and escalation.

o Coordinate across **IT and Operations teams** in North America, EMEA, and Asia to monitor progress, address issues, and mitigate critical risks.

o Organize and manage project/program streams, ensuring alignment with milestones and dependencies.

o Track and report key metrics

o Establish change-control processes and obtain sign-off for milestone changes.

o Gather updates from functional, front-to-back (F2B), and Utility workstream leads. o Prepare agendas, materials, and minutes for governance and key program meetings.

o Provide oversight of cross-workstream dependencies by analyzing, understanding, documenting, and communicating their impact on timelines. o Work with stakeholders to prioritize work and drive delivery of milestones.

o The role requires the candidate to have an understanding of program and project management fundamentals, process analysis and design best practices, system architecture principles, and data management.

o Hands on experience on **Decision Management**

**Reporting**

o Develop Governance and Steering Committee materials.

o Produce status reports (e.g., monthly PPM reporting, tech governance committees, FRB, OCC, Board).

o Create and maintain dashboard views with program tooling (e.g., JIRA) for program oversight.

**Skills required**

• 5+ years in program management, project management, and/or business analysis
• Experience creating and communicating program roadmaps
• Experience working across multiple stakeholder groups to prioritize work and understand dependencies
• Experience implementing and running program governance and related deliverables (status reports, raid logs, etc)
• Experience tracking and communicating program and project status
• Excellent oral & written communication skills, people-interaction and stakeholder management skills
• Strong Data Analysis capability.
• Ability to communicate complex analysis in a clear, precise and actionable manner
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, and comfortable working with a certain level of ambiguity
• Ability to multi-task with good organizational and time management capabilities
• Excellent in MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for work
• JIRA skills
• Prior experience of working in global and remote teams
• Financial Services experience is a significant plus

**Diversity Statement**

*S*ynechron are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We offer flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programmes to support our global workforce. Empowerment and collaboration are at the core of how we operate.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.