Project Manager - Agile, Technology - Banking

Project Manager - Agile, Technology - Banking

A leading UK bank is seeking an Agile Project Manager/Delivery Manager to support a cross-functional technology team delivering change across credit, lending and financial crime services.

The role sits within the bank's technology transformation function, which is responsible for delivering its modernisation and growth agenda. The wider programme includes changes to core banking capabilities delivered through a combination of third-party platforms, internally developed services and custom integrations using Java and React.

Working alongside the Product Owner and Technical Lead, you will be responsible for ensuring the team delivers its agreed outcomes within committed timescales while maintaining the governance, control and reporting standards expected within a regulated banking environment.

You will combine agile delivery leadership with hands-on project management, including financial tracking, capacity planning, risk management, dependency management and governance reporting.

Key responsibilities

• Support a multidisciplinary delivery team in delivering technology and business change across credit, lending or financial crime services.
• Manage delivery plans, budgets, capacity, milestones and progress reporting.
• Provide clear and accurate updates to the wider workstream, senior stakeholders and governance forums.
• Work with the Product Owner and Technical Lead to prioritise the backlog against agreed business outcomes.
• Track delivery progress and manage risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies.
• Identify and remove impediments affecting the team's ability to deliver.
• Coordinate dependencies across internal teams, architecture, security and external technology suppliers.
• Guide the team through the full delivery lifecycle, from discovery and design through implementation, data migration, integration, production release and live service.
• Ensure delivery remains aligned with product strategy, technical architecture and secure-by-design principles.
• Maintain strong stakeholder relationships across technology, business functions, risk, operations and third-party providers.
• Support agile ceremonies and encourage continuous improvement, learning and experimentation within the team.
• Balance pragmatic delivery decisions with the bank's change governance and controls framework.

Required experience

• Strong experience delivering technology change within banking, financial services or another regulated industry.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams across product, engineering, testing, architecture, business analysis and operations.
• Experience delivering complex, phased projects involving system integration, data migration and transition into live service.
• Strong project management capability, including budget management, capacity planning, governance, reporting and RAID management.
• Experience working across both agile and waterfall delivery environments.
• A practical understanding of agile delivery principles and how to apply them within a controlled banking environment.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to build effective relationships across business, technology and third-party suppliers.
• Experience using Jira, Confluence or similar planning and collaboration tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Desirable experience

• Previous delivery experience across credit, lending, loans, credit decisioning, KYC, AML, sanctions or financial crime systems.
• Experience implementing or changing third-party banking platforms alongside internally developed services and integrations.
• Experience working with Java or React-based technology teams.
• Agile, Scrum or recognised Project Management qualifications.
• Experience supporting enduring product or delivery teams rather than only fixed-term projects.