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**Lead Technical Program Manager - Payments Platforms.** Glasgow, UK. Lead, deliver, and modernize complex payments tech programs. Define, execute, and adapt project plans; manage risks and resources. Collaborate cross-functionally to align with business goals. Tech savvy, analytical, and results-driven, with preferred experience in payments and audit management.

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Country: United Kingdom

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Location: GLASGOW, LANARKSHIRE, United Kingdom

Step into a role where your technical leadership directly shapes how critical technology solutions get delivered. Youll guide complex, high-impact programs from idea to execution while partnering closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders. If you enjoy solving ambiguous problems, improving delivery outcomes, and influencing decisions through clear communication, youll thrive here. Join a team that values accountability, adaptability, and continuous improvement.

As a Lead Technical Program Manager in Payments Technology, you will drive the successful delivery of complex technology projects and programs that support business goals across the firm. You will use your technical knowledge of principles, practices, and theories to shape solutions and guide execution. You will manage resources, budgets, and delivery plans while partnering with cross-functional teams. You will navigate ambiguity and change, ensuring initiatives stay aligned to business outcomes. You will build strong stakeholder relationships and influence decision-making to achieve mutually beneficial results.

Job Responsibilities

Develop and execute comprehensive project plans that incorporate technical requirements, resource allocation, and timelines to support on-time delivery

Identify and mitigate risks by proactively addressing roadblocks and implementing contingency plans to maintain momentum

Collaborate with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to define program scope, objectives, and deliverables aligned to business goals

Monitor progress, adjust plans and schedules as needed, and provide regular status updates to maintain transparency throughout the lifecycle

Analyze program performance, identify improvement opportunities, and implement data-driven optimizations to enhance efficiency and effectiveness

Drive audit readiness and success by coordinating requests for information, remediating observations, and managing scope or schedule changes with key stakeholders

Manage issues and action plans to remediate and close items on or before due dates

Modernize and decommission legacy components by retiring redundant mapping tables, tools, and related operational support processes where appropriate

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

Demonstrated expertise in technical program management leading complex technology projects and programs in a large organization

Proven ability to build productive working relationships and influence decision-making across cross-functional teams and clients

Strong technical fluency, including the ability to evaluate vendor products and manage vendor relationships

Demonstrated ability to manage resources and budgets and to lead and support high-performing teams in an agile environment

Proven experience applying project lifecycle management practices while adapting plans as business needs evolve

Demonstrated analytical reasoning and problem-solving skills to break down business, technical, or operational objectives into actionable tasks

Familiarity with current, relevant platforms, software tools, and technologies used to deliver and support technology solutions

Proven stakeholder management skills, including aligning priorities and driving mutually beneficial outcomes

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

Experience delivering technology programs within payments technology

Experience managing audit activities, including requests for information, remediation, and handling unplanned audits or scope changes

Exposure to finance reference data standards and related modernization efforts

Experience modernizing and decommissioning legacy components and retiring redundant operational processes

Lead complex technology programs in Payments Technology, driving innovation, delivery excellence, and audit readiness.

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