Lead Technical Programme Manager - People Data

Role overview

Programme delivery

• Deliver complex programmes with multiple business and technical risks affecting key priorities.
• Line manage a team and develop talent within the technical programme management community.
• Establish or improve delivery methodologies and shape programmes with ambiguous scope.
• Create and track programme plans, including technical implementation plans.
• Mentor other technical programme managers and support Engineering and Product teams.
• Manage trade-offs, risks, issues, discussions, and escalations across delivery.

People Data portfolio

• Deliver regulatory reporting, workforce insights, dashboards, analytics, and forecasting capabilities.
• Support data quality, governance, access controls, and ingestion frameworks.
• Drive clear data ownership, governance, and accountability across business and technology.
• Ensure data products are trusted, scalable, and audit-ready.

Candidate requirements

• Proven delivery of complex cross-functional data or platform technology programmes across multiple teams and geographies.
• Strong experience in compliance, regulatory, reporting, or data and analytics programmes.
• Experience influencing senior management and leadership teams.
• Experience and passion for people management.
• Strong project, stakeholder, and programme management skills.
• Excellent communication and influencing, including translating technical complexity into business outcomes.

Workplace

• The working arrangement is 60% of the week at office locations or local sites and the remainder remotely.

Benefits

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary.
• Holiday starts at 25 days plus a personal day and bank holidays.
• Private medical insurance and a 24/7 virtual GP service.
• Paid maternity, adoption, and paternity leave, subject to the stated qualifying terms.
• Employee assistance and mental wellbeing support.