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About the Role
We are seeking a hands-on Technology PMO Lead to enhance work planning, prioritization, and management across Technology. This role will establish a clear view of the Technology portfolio, integrating business demand, Technology capacity, and existing commitments to ensure informed delivery choices, agreed priorities, and transparent impact assessment of new requests. The PMO Lead will collaborate with senior leadership to provide clear and realistic delivery information, enabling better decision-making, accountability, and transparency.
Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain a single, reliable view of Technology projects, priorities, and material BAU activity.
- Develop an integrated roadmap and support prioritisation decisions with the CTO and Technology leadership team.
- Understand investment team priorities and demand, clarifying the impact on Technology capacity and commitments.
- Improve visibility of Technology resource allocation across BAU, mandatory work, and strategic change.
- Produce concise, decision-focused reporting for Technology leadership and executive stakeholders.
- Track delivery against agreed milestones and ensure clear ownership of risks, issues, and decisions.
- Identify and escalate conflicts, dependencies, and capacity constraints across teams.
- Establish proportionate governance and consistent delivery standards across Technology initiatives.
- Improve tracking of budget, forecast, headcount, and external spend with Finance and Technology leaders.
- Ensure consistent assessment of new requests and priority changes, clarifying their impact on existing commitments.
- Support initiative owners with planning and governance, constructively challenging delivery confidence.
- Adhere to Consult rules as set out in the Senior Manager and Certification Regime (SMCR).
Requirements
- Strong experience in a Technology PMO, technology portfolio management, or enterprise technology change role within a hedge fund.
- Experience working directly with investment teams and their supporting technology functions.
- Good understanding of the pace, autonomy, and changing priorities of a hedge fund environment.
- Track record of improving or establishing portfolio governance, planning, and reporting.
- Good understanding of technology delivery across applications, infrastructure, cyber security, and data.
- Commercial and financial confidence, including experience with budgets, forecasts, resource plans, and investment cases.
- Ability to transform fragmented or incomplete information into a clear and accurate management view.
- Strong stakeholder-management skills, including the confidence to challenge senior investment and Technology stakeholders constructively.
- Excellent written communication and the ability to produce concise executive reporting.
- Comfortable working across different delivery approaches rather than imposing a single methodology.
Skills
- Hands-on
- Organised
- Pragmatic
- Outcome-focused
- Comfortable with ambiguity
- Calm under pressure
- Clear communication
- Persistent
- Ability to introduce structure and discipline without bureaucracy
About the Company
- BlueCrest is committed to providing an inclusive environment for its workforce.
Equal Opportunity
- As an employer, we provide equal opportunities to all people regardless of their gender, marital or civil partnership status, race, religion or ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or nationality.