Job Description
Who are we?
GFT is driving the digital transformation of the world’s leading financial institutions. We are a modern company with a passion for technology that thrives on collaboration with our clients. We are an organisation that empowers our employees not only to explore but raise their potential and seek opportunities that add value. At GFT, diversity, equality, and inclusion are at the core of who we are. Ensuring a diverse and inclusive working environment for all communities is one of the main pillars of our diversity strategy, based on our core values and culture. We have been certified for 2023/24 as a ‘Great place to work’ in the UK. So, if you want to have the opportunity to work with an outstanding and progressive organisation, this position could be right for you.
What we do?
As a pioneer for digital transformation, GFT develops sustainable solutions leveraging modern technologies – from cloud engineering and artificial intelligence to blockchain/DLT. With its deep technological expertise, strong partnerships and comprehensive market know-how, GFT offers services to the financial and insurance sectors. We have been recognised for our engineering excellence and work side by side with our clients in an agile way to solve their most challenging problems. We help our clients gain easy and safe access to scalable IT applications and innovative business models.
Role Summary
We are seeking a highly experienced and motivated Programme Manager to join our Retail Banking division. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in setting up Retail/Neobanking cloud based solutions and delivering end-to-end banking capabilities, customer/account migration and cut-over, and establishing cloud IT banking operations.
Role Responsibilities
- Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of medium scale programmes or multiple workstreams on large and complex transformation programmes within the Retail Banking division
- Manage senior stakeholder relationships to secure buy-in, oversight and support for the programme
- Partner with business and technology stakeholders to align on delivery and ensure business value is achieved
- Implement effective governance processes, standards, and methodologies to ensure programme management and delivery
- Produce project charter, coordinate project plans, resource plans, and related project management, ensuring all requirements and objectives are met
- Lead detailed plans to deliver project objectives, engaging with partners and critically assessing requirements
- Manage client stakeholders and coordinate GFT global teams to drive a successful outcome for the client
- Oversee the work of cross-functional teams, including IT, business operations, and external partners, to ensure successful programme delivery
- Ensure that risks, actions, issues, and dependencies are clearly identified, managed and mitigated
- Ensure timely and effective communication with all stakeholders, including status updates and progress reports
- Manage the budget and resource allocation for the programmes to ensure optimal use of resources
- Provide clear, accurate, timely and actionable information that allows technology and business partners to understand delivery status, progress and performance
- Deliver compliant solutions following best practice, standards and regulations
Required Experience
Technical Skills:
- 8 to 10 years of strong experience as a programme / project manager in the retail banking industry
- Strong knowledge and experience in delivering end-to-end banking solutions, testing and migration to the cloud, and setting up cloud IT banking operations
- Strong technical background and experience in banking technologies
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with project and programme management methodologies. Ideally, Scrum or SAFe, Prince2/PMP and MSP certified.
- Solid technical engineering experience in building solutions
- Experience in delivering to investment banks and/or insurance companies would be an advantage.
Behavioural Skills:
- Strong leadership and decision-making skills
- Excellent planning, organisation, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills
- Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
- Ability to effectively communicate and negotiate with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation
- Ability to work in a modern and agile organisation with a start-up mindset
- Ability to lead a dispersed team allocated to a variety of projects
- Sets clear goals and consistently delivers against them
What can we offer you?
At GFT, we offer a flexible hybrid working environment. The majority of our roles are determined by client requirements, but the expectation is that you will be required on client site or at a GFT office 2-3 days a week (this may vary depending on client requirements and could go up or down). From a non-client standpoint, we encourage everyone to travel into a GFT office periodically to build a rapport with the wider GFT team and to ensure you feel connected with your peers/colleagues.
Every individual at GFT co-creates a mapped career path with growth opportunities, the ability to diversify, access to amazing Learning and Development programmes in an environment of collaboration, flexibility and support. We believe that investing in employee development promotes innovation and job satisfaction. The strategic relationships we have with industry leaders gives you unprecedented access to emerging technology and the opportunity to be part of the conversation of the future of digital.
GFT is an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are inclusive. Selection for employment at GFT will be on the basis of performance and ability. Where possible, GFT will capture applicants’ diversity demographics as part of its recruitment processes to promote it’s DEI agenda.
Founded in 1987 and located in 20 countries to ensure close proximity to its clients, GFT employs over 12,000 people globally. We provide our people with career opportunities in all areas of software engineering and innovation.
