Mainframe Program Manager (Relocation Required to Nordics)
Posted 2 weeks ago by Hawksman Technology
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: Hawksman Technology is seeking a senior Technology Programme Manager to lead a significant mainframe-to-cloud transformation for a leading global financial institution. This role involves end-to-end programme delivery, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives while managing complex stakeholder relationships. The position requires relocation to the Nordic region and focuses on migrating legacy systems to a cloud-based architecture. The successful candidate will possess extensive experience in programme management and cloud migration within financial services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of a large-scale mainframe-to-cloud transformation programme, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and timelines.
- Define and drive programme structure, governance, and execution across multiple workstreams (engineering, infrastructure, product, and business).
- Collaborate with architecture and engineering teams to shape migration strategies, including re-platforming, refactoring, and cloud-native adoption.
- Manage senior stakeholders across technology and business functions, ensuring alignment, transparency, and momentum throughout the transformation.
- Identify and mitigate programme risks, dependencies, and technical challenges associated with legacy system migration.
- Establish clear reporting frameworks, providing executive-level insights on progress, risks, and outcomes.
- Drive coordination across cross-functional teams to ensure seamless delivery and integration of new cloud-based solutions.
Key Skills:
- 7+ years of experience in programme management, with a strong track record delivering large-scale technology transformations.
- Proven experience leading mainframe modernisation and cloud migration programmes within financial services or complex enterprise environments.
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms, migration strategies (rehost, replatform, refactor), and modern architecture principles.
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-stream programmes with significant technical and organisational dependencies.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging senior leadership and aligning cross-functional teams.
- Strong delivery focus, with the ability to drive execution in fast-paced, high-stakes environments.
- Experience establishing governance frameworks, reporting structures, and programme controls.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Hawksman Technology is collaborating with a leading global financial institution with a strong European footprint.
Role: Technology Programme Manager (Mainframe to Cloud Transformation)
Contract: 2-year fixed-term
Relocation to the Nordic region will be required
Hawksman Technology is partnering with a prominent international bank to appoint a senior Technology Programme Manager to lead a large-scale mainframe-to-cloud transformation. This is a highly strategic role, central to one of the organisation’s most critical modernisation initiatives, focused on migrating legacy systems to a scalable, cloud-based architecture. Working closely with the Technology Leadership Team, you will take ownership of programme delivery end-to-end—ensuring execution, technical alignment, and stakeholder engagement across a complex and high-impact transformation. In this role, you will combine strong programme leadership with a solid understanding of cloud and legacy modernisation, enabling the organisation to transition from mainframe environments to modern, cloud-native platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of a large-scale mainframe-to-cloud transformation programme, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and timelines.
- Define and drive programme structure, governance, and execution across multiple workstreams (engineering, infrastructure, product, and business).
- Collaborate with architecture and engineering teams to shape migration strategies, including re-platforming, refactoring, and cloud-native adoption.
- Manage senior stakeholders across technology and business functions, ensuring alignment, transparency, and momentum throughout the transformation.
- Identify and mitigate programme risks, dependencies, and technical challenges associated with legacy system migration.
- Establish clear reporting frameworks, providing executive-level insights on progress, risks, and outcomes.
- Drive coordination across cross-functional teams to ensure seamless delivery and integration of new cloud-based solutions.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in programme management, with a strong track record delivering large-scale technology transformations.
- Proven experience leading mainframe modernisation and cloud migration programmes within financial services or complex enterprise environments.
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms, migration strategies (rehost, replatform, refactor), and modern architecture principles.
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-stream programmes with significant technical and organisational dependencies.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging senior leadership and aligning cross-functional teams.
- Strong delivery focus, with the ability to drive execution in fast-paced, high-stakes environments.
- Experience establishing governance frameworks, reporting structures, and programme controls.