Senior Program Manager Investment Platform

We are working with a prestigious, long-standing client in the global banking sector a recognised leader in quantitative finance and structured investment products.

As part of a strategic multi-year programme, they are building and scaling a next-generation investment platform designed to support complex, data-driven financial strategies at institutional scale.

This is a senior individual contributor role, sitting at the intersection of technology delivery and financial markets.You will be the responsible for making its delivery coherent, evidenced and continuous, coordinating across a broad set of engineering, quant and business stakeholders in a large matrix organisation.

Responsibilities : Reporting to the Head of the Investment Platform, you will work closely with platform engineering teams, quantitative developers, IT infrastructure and a range of business users and senior sponsors.

Own end-to-end delivery coherence across multiple interdependent engineering teams

Identify, track and resolve cross-team dependencies before they become blockers

Establish and enforce evidence-based delivery cycles ? working integrations, demonstrated interfaces, measurable performance benchmarks

Define and oversee testing strategies; ensure appropriate environments are available and maintained

Surface risks, unknowns and integration challenges early and track them systematically

Translate technical complexity into clear, accurate narratives for senior business stakeholders

Manage expectations proactively ? communicating constraints, trade-offs and realistic delivery horizons

Challenge assumptions, validate claims and identify inefficiencies across the programme

Support resourcing and prioritisation decisions in collaboration with team leads

Proven experience delivering complex technology programmes in investment banking or quantitative finance environments

Direct exposure to QIS (Quantitative Investment Strategies) or systematic investment platforms; understanding how strategies are researched, backtested and industrialised

Hands-on experience coordinating with Quant researchers and Quant developers

Technical fluency across software architecture, infrastructure and integration

Familiarity with quant technology ecosystems (Python, C++, distributed data systems, market data infrastructure)

Background in structured products, equity derivatives or passive/systematic investment platforms is a strong advantage