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About the Role
Drive the successful delivery of complex engineering initiatives within the Front Office Quantitative Strategies Department at CMC Markets. This role focuses on bringing structure, transparency, and momentum to cross-functional delivery, ensuring teams are aligned, dependencies are managed, and strategic initiatives are delivered efficiently in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of complex, cross-team engineering initiatives from planning through to successful delivery.
- Collaborate with Engineering Managers, Technical Leads, and business stakeholders to align priorities and keep delivery on track.
- Identify and manage risks, issues, and dependencies across multiple teams, driving timely resolution.
- Facilitate planning, prioritization, and roadmap discussions, balancing competing demands and business priorities.
- Establish clear delivery governance through concise reporting, risk, assumption, issue, and dependency management, milestone tracking, and outcome-focused updates.
- Develop and maintain portfolio-level visibility using Jira, Confluence, and automated reporting dashboards.
- Champion Agile delivery practices, coaching teams in Scrum, Kanban, and Lean methodologies to improve predictability and delivery flow.
- Improve delivery processes by introducing frameworks and standards for consistent and efficient team delivery.
- Support resource planning, forecasting, and cross-team coordination within the department.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement through regular reviews, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
- Build strong relationships across Engineering, Product, Compliance, and other business functions to remove blockers and enable successful delivery.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Delivery Manager, Technical Delivery Manager, or Agile Delivery Lead, delivering complex software initiatives across multiple engineering teams.
- Experience working in Front Office technology, Financial Services, or another highly regulated environment is highly desirable.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and facilitation skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
- Strong technical understanding to engage confidently with software engineers, architects, and quantitative teams.
- Experience leading Agile delivery across Scrum, Kanban, or scaled Agile environments.
- Strong knowledge of Jira, Confluence, and delivery reporting tools.
- Experience managing dependencies, risks, and delivery roadmaps across multiple teams.
- A proactive, collaborative approach with excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where priorities can evolve quickly.
Skills
- Agile delivery
- Scrum
- Kanban
- Lean
- Jira
- Confluence
- Stakeholder management
- Risk management
- Dependency management
- Roadmap management
- Reporting
- Process improvement
Location
- London, UK
Work Type
- Onsite
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experienced
About the Company
- CMC Markets is one of the world's first fin-tech companies, founded in 1989 to make financial trading accessible to everyone.
- The company's mission is to use its award-winning Next Generation trading platform and client service to empower millions of people to have the best trading experience.
- Clients can trade thousands of instruments using advanced technology, sophisticated charting, competitive pricing, and automated execution.
- CMC Markets is trusted globally by investors, banks, brokers, funds, and trading desks through its institutional offering.
- The company was recently listed on the FTSE250 and continues to invest in technology and people.
Equal Opportunity
- CMC Markets is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified candidates regardless of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability, or age.