Technical Programme Lead
Posted Today by ByteHire
£650 Per day
Outside
Remote
United Kingdom
Summary: The Technical Programme Lead will oversee the delivery of key technology workstreams within a large-scale digital transformation programme in the UK transport sector. This role requires a combination of technical leadership, programme delivery, and stakeholder coordination to ensure successful outcomes in a complex, multi-vendor environment. The position involves engaging with various stakeholders and vendors to align systems and delivery plans with architectural principles and programme objectives. The contract is remote with occasional office presence in London.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead delivery of technical workstreams from early planning through to implementation.
- Support requirements definition, technical planning, and delivery readiness.
- Oversee data transition and integration planning across platforms.
- Provide technical input into supplier selection and procurement activities.
- Ensure alignment and contribution from technical teams during evaluation processes.
- Engage with vendors to assess solutions, clarify proposals, and evaluate technical risks.
- Coordinate across multiple stakeholders to ensure delivery alignment.
- Ensure delivery aligns with architectural principles and programme objectives.
- Support governance processes, approvals, and technical decision-making.
- Establish frameworks for system integration and delivery accountability.
- Identify and manage technical risks, dependencies, and assumptions.
- Feed into programme RAID processes and support mitigation planning.
- Lead technical workshops to resolve design challenges and validate approaches.
- Provide structured updates to governance forums and senior stakeholders.
Key Skills:
- Strong experience in technical programme or project delivery roles.
- Background delivering large-scale digital or transactional platform programmes.
- Experience managing system integration across multiple suppliers.
- Ability to operate in complex environments with evolving requirements and dependencies.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional technical teams.
- Experience with large-scale platform consolidation or transformation programmes (desirable).
- Familiarity with regulated or public sector environments (desirable).
- Understanding of governance frameworks and structured business case processes (desirable).
- Exposure to complex data migration or integration initiatives (desirable).
Salary (Rate): £650 daily
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Technical Programme Lead
Reference: BH-386c
Job Type: Contract
Duration: 31 May 2026 – 19 Sept 2026
Location: Remote (1 day per month at the London office)
Day rate: up to £650 per day (Outside IR35)
About The Client:
Our client is delivering a large-scale digital transformation programme within the UK transport sector, focused on consolidating multiple customer-facing platforms into a single, unified digital experience. The programme brings together multiple stakeholders across the industry to modernise ticketing, improve user experience, and enable faster innovation across digital channels.
About The Role:
Our client is looking for a Technical Programme Lead to oversee the delivery of key technology workstreams within a complex, multi-vendor environment. This role will combine technical leadership, programme delivery, and stakeholder coordination, ensuring that systems, suppliers, and delivery plans align to achieve successful outcomes.
- Lead delivery of technical workstreams from early planning through to implementation.
- Support requirements definition, technical planning, and delivery readiness.
- Oversee data transition and integration planning across platforms.
- Provide technical input into supplier selection and procurement activities.
- Ensure alignment and contribution from technical teams during evaluation processes.
- Engage with vendors to assess solutions, clarify proposals, and evaluate technical risks.
- Coordinate across multiple stakeholders to ensure delivery alignment.
- Ensure delivery aligns with architectural principles and programme objectives.
- Support governance processes, approvals, and technical decision-making.
- Establish frameworks for system integration and delivery accountability.
- Identify and manage technical risks, dependencies, and assumptions.
- Feed into programme RAID processes and support mitigation planning.
- Lead technical workshops to resolve design challenges and validate approaches.
- Provide structured updates to governance forums and senior stakeholders.
Essential Experience
- Strong experience in technical programme or project delivery roles.
- Background delivering large-scale digital or transactional platform programmes.
- Experience managing system integration across multiple suppliers.
- Ability to operate in complex environments with evolving requirements and dependencies.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional technical teams.
Desirable Experience
- Experience with large-scale platform consolidation or transformation programmes.
- Familiarity with regulated or public sector environments.
- Understanding of governance frameworks and structured business case processes.
- Exposure to complex data migration or integration initiatives.
Why join?
- Opportunity to contribute to a large, high-impact transformation programme.
- Work within a complex, multi-stakeholder technical environment.
- Play a key role in shaping delivery across integrated systems and platforms.
- Competitive contract with potential for extension.