Technical Program Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of product delivery execution for a growing number of squads.

• Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.

• Gradually empower teams to operate autonomously under a unified delivery standard.

• Define delivery cadences, criteria for completion, reporting protocols, and operational procedures.

• Bridge the gap between New York and Europe with an async-first operating model.

• Create written summaries of stand-ups and maintain a reliable log of decisions.

• Focus live ceremonies during the daily overlap window between New York and London.

• Identify and address cross-team dependencies among six squads and shared data/algorithm teams.

• Raise risks proactively before they impact program timelines.

• Collaborate with Product Managers to determine how work is executed.

• Monitor and report on throughput, predictability, cycle time, and alignment between roadmap and execution.

• Highlight delivery risks to product and engineering leadership.

• Keep Jira and Confluence updated as the authoritative source, ensuring clean epics, accurate timelines, and reliable reporting.

• Establish standards, cadences, and tools for consistent delivery across the product organization.

• Mentor engineering leads to effectively conduct daily ceremonies following established standards.

• Ensure delivery predictability and overall health throughout the product organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years' experience driving delivery for multiple technical teams, either as a Technical Program Manager, senior Scrum Master across squads, or Agile Delivery Lead.

• Proven experience in establishing or advancing a delivery function or agile practice.

• Demonstrated success in facilitating distributed teams across various time zones.

• Strong instincts for asynchronous communication and documentation.

• Proficient understanding of Scrum, Kanban, and scaled agile methodologies.

• Hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence, including dashboards, workflows, and reporting tools.

• Exceptional facilitation skills and executive-level communication abilities.

• Technical fluency to engage in architecture and data discussions with engineering and data/algorithm teams.

• Ability to introduce discipline to teams that currently operate independently, influencing without direct authority.

• Comfortable utilizing AI tools to enhance reporting, documentation, and meeting summarization; skilled in effective prompting and validating outputs.

• Experience in fintech, capital markets, or RegTech, particularly within a data- or algorithm-intensive product environment (preferred).

• Familiarity with trade surveillance, transaction monitoring, or crypto/digital asset markets (preferred).

• Experience in establishing a delivery or PMO function within a scaling Series B/C company (preferred).

• Possession of a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), PSM, PMP, or SAFe certification (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Impact at Scale – Your contributions will directly influence global financial market surveillance and analytics.

• Cutting-Edge Challenges – Engage in building for low-latency, high-throughput environments processing billions of messages daily.

• Collaborative Culture – Partner with world-class engineers, quants, and product leaders in a mission-driven atmosphere.

• Growth & Learning – Opportunities to spearhead strategic initiatives and shape the evolution of our data platform.