Lead Technology Programme Manager
Role Overview
Experienced Lead Technology Programme Manager role owning large, complex, cross-cutting technology programmes.
Works closely with the CTO, Technology Directors and senior technical leaders to coordinate delivery and keep critical programmes moving.
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About Our Future Health
Our Future Health is building technology and data capabilities for a large UK health research programme.
The programme aims to support prevention, detection and treatment of disease and help people live healthier lives.
Role overview
Experienced Lead Technology Programme Manager role owning large, complex, cross-cutting technology programmes.
Works closely with the CTO, Technology Directors and senior technical leaders to coordinate delivery and keep critical programmes moving.
Responsibilities
- Lead major cross-functional technology programmes, setting objectives, plans, milestones and outcome measures.
- Coordinate delivery across engineering, architecture, security, product and operations teams; manage commitments and dependencies.
- Identify capacity constraints and competing priorities and help senior leaders make informed trade-offs.
- Maintain a reliable, integrated picture of progress, risks, dependencies and decisions.
- Resolve delivery challenges and blockers, including those spanning organizational boundaries.
- Anticipate risks and develop credible plans, especially where security, regulatory or compliance deadlines are fixed.
- Establish proportionate programme controls, steering groups and reporting.
- Provide clear updates to Technology leadership, the Executive team and boards.
- Improve programme standards, portfolio visibility and ways of working through the central delivery function.
Requirements
- Experienced technology programme leader with strong delivery expertise, sound judgement, technical curiosity and trusted relationship-building skills.
- Successful experience leading large, complex technology programmes with demonstrable outcomes and evidence of leadership impact.
- Experience coordinating multiple teams, workstreams and senior stakeholders.
- Able to influence without formal authority, align teams, resolve disagreement and drive progress.
- Technical understanding sufficient to engage with engineers, architects, security specialists and technology leaders; having worked as an engineer is not required.
- Comfortable in largely agile engineering environments and able to use more structured planning and governance when appropriate.
Technology environment
- Technology initiatives include platform transformations, cyber security and programmes involving multiple engineering teams.
- Engineering teams work largely in agile environments and use modern cloud technologies and practices.
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