# Technical Programme Manager

**Company**: Thought Machine
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Thought Machine's mission is bold – to properly and permanently rid the world's banks of legacy technology.

Technical Programme Managers at Thought Machine are responsible for the delivery of complex technical programmes within the engineering division.

**Duties**

- Manage technical programmes: planning, setting milestones and success criteria and coordination of complex multi-team, multi-month engineering programmes.

- Communicate schedules, priorities and updates to all levels in the company.

- Support engineering departments to identify alignment gaps and reduce overhead.

- Have a good understanding of the product and the technical skills to be able to dive into details to drive programmes forward.

- Be outcome focussed and ensure everything we do supports the intended programme objectives.

- Collaborate with large cross-functional teams.

- Be engaged and energetic, helping to drive continuous improvement across the engineering organisation in a very fast paced and dynamic environment.

- Develop tools and optimise processes to improve productivity and efficiency.

**Essential**

- Proven track record managing cross-functional technical initiatives within a top tier technology company.

- Timely delivery is not your only objective: you obsess over quality, reliability and product value.

- Understand a modern microservice-based technology stack (Kubernetes, Kafka, AWS/GCP) built on a CI/CD pipeline.

- Good understanding of the full software development lifecycle (product management, engineering, testing, operations).

- Inquisitive mind and is motivated by solving problems.

- Self-starter, able to operate autonomously to lead large multi-disciplinary efforts.

- Excellent organisational, written, and presentation skills building strong relationships with stakeholders.

**Desirable**

- Knowledge or experience in the retail banking industry.

- Experience as a software engineer, an infrastructure engineer or some other technical role.

**Benefits**

- Highly competitive salary

- Pension plan (match up to 5%)

- Life insurance - three times annual salary

- Competitive maternity (six months fully paid) and paternity leave (four weeks fully paid)

- Shared parental leave (matched to our maternity leave for the same point in time)

- 25 days holiday and bank holidays

- Flexible working hours

- Cycle-to-work scheme

- Electric car scheme

- Season ticket loan

- Access to outstanding learning materials and courses

- Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine

- All the latest tech you need

- Start the day properly with fresh fruit and cereals

- Huge range of healthy (and not-so-healthy) snacks, smoothies and drinks

- A talented and experienced team as your colleagues

- An environment where we encourage learning and progress

- Two charity days a year

- Weekly food pop-up

## Skills

### Required
- Kubernetes
- Kafka
- AWS/GCP
- CI/CD pipeline
- software development lifecycle

### Nice to have
- retail banking industry
- software engineer
- infrastructure engineer

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