Programme Manager

Our client, a renowned hospitality brand, has been recognized as one of the top 50 places to work by Glassdoor. With prestigious awards for best flexible working and mental health support, the company fosters a culture of innovation, creativity, and collaboration. Working in their stimulating environment is not only rewarding but also fuels passion for driving success and contributing to a healthier, happier world. They are currently seeking an Agile Programme Manager to join their exceptional Engineering team.

Responsibilities:

As a Programme Manager you will be working at the heart of their digital endeavours, enhancing the online experience for the members and to build, improve and scale their cloud-native digital platform. Your primary goals will be to ensure the smooth delivery of key business-critical initiatives, grow your team’s capabilities and ensure organisational alignment in line with their technology and business strategies. In addition, you will:

• Provide technical programme management and Agile delivery leadership, you’ll be the driving force and a key team enabler for successful delivery of a range of technology-driven initiatives.
• Balance cross-cutting standards of quality and reliability with delivering tangible value at a good cadence.
• Delivering stability and performance targets; ensuring the team always deliver on their performance and stability objectives.
• Guiding teams and delivery in an agile environment, and fostering team empowerment, encouraging teams to self-organise for effectiveness and efficiency. Champion an agile culture, where they continually inspect, adapt, and refine.
• Working closely with cross-functional teams, with a particularly close partnership with the engineering team, product, delivery and the partner ecosystem.
• Planning and progress reporting to maintain transparency across the organisation.

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of technical project & programme management experience with a proven track record of successful delivery in an Agile framework. They will hold a good understanding of modern micro-service-based architecture & infrastructure principles, key patterns and key cloud concepts and tools. The ability to manage stakeholders, with a strong, approachable attitude and team spirit to encourage collaboration is crucial to the role. This role would suit those who have progressed from a hands-on technical role (such as software engineering or solution design) into an Agile Delivery position.

Screening Questions:

Do you have 5+ years’ Agile technical project & programme management experience?

Do you have a solid understanding of Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure and Microservices at a design level?

Are you resident in the UK with right to work without sponsorship and able to commute to Central London at least twice a week?

Location: Central London/Hybrid

Salary: Up to £80k DOE + bonus + bens

Ref: FV-369046