**Lead Technical Program Manager** at JPMorganChase' Core and Foundational Platforms. Drive execution, operating cadence, and organizational effectiveness. Partner with leadership to deliver strategy, align engineering roadmaps, and lead cross-functional projects. Manage resources, risks, and stakeholder communications. Leverage AI-enabled tools for efficient planning and reporting. THIS ROLE demands a strategic thinker with proven program management experience, robust communication skills, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams. Requires Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, strong data analysis skills, and proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. A technical background or infrastructure domain familiarity is preferred.
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Location: GLASGOW, LANARKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Join JPMorganChase's Core and Foundational Platforms team, where technology at scale powers the firm's most critical infrastructure. This is a place where your ability to drive clarity, connect strategy to execution, and lead through complexity will have real, measurable impact. You'll work alongside some of the most talented engineers, product leaders, and business partners in the industry with the resources, scope, and visibility to grow your career in meaningful ways. If you thrive in fast-moving environments, bring structure to ambiguity, and are energized by leading transformation at scale, this role is built for you.
As a Lead Technical Program Manager at JPMorganChase within Core and Foundational Platforms, you will serve as a key driver of execution discipline, operating cadence, and organizational effectiveness across a global engineering-led infrastructure organization. You will partner closely with senior engineering leaders, product management, finance, and human resources to translate strategy into coordinated outcomes and ensure delivery progress is visible, actionable, and aligned to the platform's priorities. Your work will directly shape how the organization operates, makes decisions, and delivers impact across both technical and people dimensions.
Job Responsibilities
Partner with platform leadership to run business enablement and transformation priorities, translating strategy into coordinated execution and leading cross-functional projects from definition through deliveryOwn the operating cadence and preparation for leadership forums, including monthly business reviews, ensuring robust due diligence, clear storytelling, effective challenge, and timely follow-through on decisions and actionsAlign engineering books of work to strategic priorities and objectives, maintaining integrated roadmaps and tracking milestones, dependencies, risks, and outcomes in partnership with engineering leads and product ownersLead priority projects and transformation initiatives, coordinating stakeholders, resolving delivery impediments, and providing transparent reporting and escalation to senior leadershipPartner with human resources, finance, and business management on resource management, headcount and financial tracking, talent reviews, promotion processes, and organizational communicationsCreate and maintain disciplined processes that support consistent execution, leveraging AI-enabled tools and emerging technologies to reduce manual effort and improve the speed and quality of analysis, decision support, and communicationsPrepare data-driven recommendations, executive materials, and concise updates that enable informed decisions and clearly articulate business impact, delivery progress, risks, and required actionsEstablish and run a structured engagement cadence across global locations, including leadership forums, town halls, site visits, and listening sessions, with clear objectives, ownership, and follow-throughAct as a connector across platform teams, surfacing themes, opportunities, and barriers; translating feedback into practical actions; and providing leadership with clear insight into engagement progress and impactUses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate program planning and risk synthesis (e.g., consolidating inputs into integrated plans, risk/assumption/issue/dependency logs, and executive-ready updates), validating outputs and handling data according to sensitivity requirementsRequired qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent industry experience; technical background or experienceDemonstrated experience in program or project management, technology management, consulting, or operations, with increasing scope and responsibility over timeExcellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with and present to senior leadersStrong capabilities in resource management, organizational and operational change management, portfolio management, conflict resolution, and risk and controlsProven ability to take complex and ambiguous information and refine it into meaningful content, clear narratives, and actionable plansDemonstrated ability to establish and build strong relationships and partnerships across cross-functional teams at varying levels of seniorityAbility to influence, organize, and direct people across various seniorities, teams, and departments without direct authorityStrong data analysis and presentation skills with proficiency in tools such as Microsoft Excel and PowerPointCommitment to diversity, ethical leadership, accountability, and transparent communicationPreferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Experience supporting or leading engagement programs across global or multi-site engineering organizationsFamiliarity with infrastructure, platform, or foundational technology domainsExperience working with or alongside product management, client solutions, or line-of-business stakeholders in a technology organizationExposure to AI-enabled productivity tools and a demonstrated interest in applying emerging technologies to improve program governance and reportingIndustry-recognized certifications in program management, agility, or related disciplines (e.g., PMP, SAFe, PMI-ACP) Shape strategy into action driving execution, transformation, and impact across a global engineering infrastructure platform. 
