Technical Program Manager

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Own complex cross-team software program delivery against milestones, managing timelines and time, quality, and risk trade-offs.
• Set organisation-wide delivery standards, cadences, and success criteria; diagnose slippage and drive resolution.
• Improve engineering ways of working, sprint health, and delivery practices; surface risks and test assumptions.
• Manage cross-organisation dependencies and unblock delivery across IT, CyberSec, Data Platform, and Robotics & Autonomy.
• Coordinate senior engineers to resolve architecture and dependency decisions that block delivery.
• Translate business objectives into actionable plans and own cross-team initiatives end to end.
• Coordinate planning cycles and periodic reviews, contributing to organisational planning and prioritisation.
• Plan team capacity and resources, track delivery health, and present risks and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Coach engineering managers and tech leads to strengthen delivery practices.

What the role requires

• Significant technical program or delivery management experience, including at senior or lead level; relevant complex technology, engineering, or operational environments are ideal.
• Strong technical fluency and a proven record owning large, complex cross-functional programs in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Ability to align separate organisations, manage dependencies, and coach engineering managers and tech leads.
• Able to communicate trade-offs to senior leadership and translate objectives into meaningful development work.
• Fluent with delivery tools such as Jira; independently manages tracking and reporting.
• Brings structure without unnecessary process and operates with independence and accountability.

Desirable experience

• Experience within or alongside software engineering organisations is desirable.
• Consulting, venture-building, or high-growth scale-up experience is desirable.
• Exposure to maritime, defence, or energy sectors is desirable.

Compensation

• The description ends with an incomplete salary statement beginning “Salary: £120,”; no pay cadence is provided.