Programme Manager
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Job Description
My client is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. A technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology, and trading expertise has shaped the collaborative mindset, enabling them to solve the most complex challenges. They have a culture of innovation which continuously drives their ambition to deliver high quality returns for investors.
About the role
Looking to hire a Global Technology BCM Program Manager to lead the design and implementation of business continuity strategies across trading systems and infrastructure. This role blends hands-on expertise in service continuity, DevOps, and production risk with a focus on automation, scalable tooling, and close collaboration with engineering.
The ideal candidate has deep experience in application and infrastructure resilience, site reliability, and governance, along with a track record of driving risk reduction and continuity planning across complex tech environments. This is a strategic, cross-functional leadership role for a technologist focused on operational resilience and controls.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the end-to-end BCP strategy from planning through testing and recovery across applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and business functions
- Lead business impact assessments (BIA), recovery time objective (RTO/RPO) planning, and dependency analysis
- Design and oversee testing regimes including DR drills, application failover, tabletop exercises, and cloud recovery
- Act as the primary liaison between Technology, Business COOs, Trading Heads, Risk, Security, and Compliance
- Work across development, support and governance teams to keep the resilience posture strong and testable
- Maintain BCP governance and ensure alignment with regulatory and internal audit expectations
- Translate recovery requirements into action: clear RTO/RPO alignment, test tracking and audit response
- Coordinate with platform owners to remediate vulnerabilities and technology risks impacting BCP execution
- Support the maintenance of recovery documentation, runbooks, dependency maps, and testing schedules
Requirements
- 10+ years in technology, infrastructure, or BCP-related functions in financial services or trading firms
- Proven experience in designing and managing IT continuity and disaster recovery programs - especially in live trading or production environments
- Strong knowledge of enterprise applications, cloud infrastructure, data center operations, and IT security controls
- Practical understanding of solution architecture, fault-tolerant systems, and high availability principles
- Experience with GRC/BCP tooling and governance frameworks
- Excellent communication skills and ability to influence senior stakeholders
- Track record of turning governance into action and audits into outcomes
- Self-starter with a balance of technical fluency and governance orientation
- Appreciation for continuous improvement, root-cause analysis, and data-driven resiliency decision-making
- Proven experience running technical continuity tests and integrating failover workflows into production environments
- Experience running chaos engineering experiments or reliability/fire drill exercises
- Understanding of SRE methodologies including incident response, observability, and system health metrics to proactively enhance resilience
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible) and disaster recovery automation frameworks
Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.
Contact
If this sounds like you, or you'd like more information, please get in touch:
George Hutchinson-Binks
george.hutchinson-binks@oxfordknight.co.uk
(+44) 07885 545220
linkedin.com/in/george-hutchinson-binks-a62a69252
- Location:
- London
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