Delivery Manager – Investment Banking Back Office Technology

Delivery Manager – Investment Banking Back Office Technology

London (Hybrid) x2 Days on-site

£600-£650

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm Specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector, we power progress, solve challenges and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication in delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

We are seeking an experienced Delivery Manager to lead complex, business-critical technology change initiatives within the Investment Banking Back Office domain, covering areas such as trade processing, settlements, reconciliations, collateral, and regulatory reporting.

This role requires a strong blend of delivery leadership, back office domain expertise, and governance discipline, operating in a highly regulated, production-critical environment. The successful candidate will take full accountability for end-to-end delivery, ensuring change is executed in a controlled, transparent, and predictable manner.

The role:

•         Lead end-to-end delivery of technology change initiatives across investment banking back office systems, including trade lifecycle, settlements, reconciliations, collateral, and regulatory reporting.

•         Take full ownership of delivery outcomes, ensuring alignment to agreed scope, timelines, budget, and quality standards.

•         Develop and maintain detailed delivery plans, including milestones, dependencies, risks, and critical paths.

•         Act as the central point of accountability across technology, operations, business stakeholders, and third-party vendors.

•         Coordinate cross-functional teams including development, QA, operations, and business change resources.

•         Drive requirements definition and solution design in collaboration with stakeholders and technical teams.

•         Oversee end-to-end testing phases, ensuring appropriate planning, coordination, and execution across all test cycles.

•         Establish and manage robust governance structures, including working groups, project boards, and steering committees.

•         Produce clear and structured status reporting, ensuring transparency of progress, risks, issues, and dependencies.

•         Proactively manage RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies), ensuring timely escalation and resolution.

•         Ensure adherence to delivery governance, change control processes, and regulatory expectations.

•         Operate effectively in a production-critical environment, balancing delivery pace with risk, control, and stability.

•         Drive continuous improvement in delivery practices, tooling usage, and governance standards.

Key Skills and Experience:

To succeed in this role you will need:

•         Proven track record as a Delivery Manager / Project Manager within investment banking back office or post-trade technology environments.

•         Strong experience across the trade lifecycle, including settlements, reconciliations, collateral management, and/or regulatory reporting.

•         Demonstrable end-to-end delivery experience, from initiation through to implementation and post-production stabilisation.

•         Experience managing multi-disciplinary teams across technology, operations, and vendors.

•         Strong governance experience, including running steering committees, project boards, and working groups.

•         Hands-on ownership of delivery artefacts including delivery plans, RAID logs, dependency maps, and status reporting.

•         Experience operating within regulated, control-driven environments with a strong focus on risk management and auditability.

•         Proficiency in Jira, including backlog management, sprint planning, dependency tracking, and reporting.

•         Strong working knowledge of Confluence for documentation, governance, and stakeholder communication.

•         Solid understanding of the full IT delivery lifecycle (requirements, design, build, test, implementation, support).

•         Ability to translate business and operational requirements into structured delivery plans for technology teams.

•         Experience managing complex integration programmes across multiple systems and platforms.

•         Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage confidently at senior levels across business and IT.

Desirable:

•         Experience delivering regulatory change (e.g. EMIR, MiFID, SFTR) or working on core settlement platforms.

•         Exposure to Agile, hybrid, or scaled delivery models within enterprise banking environments.

•         Experience with vendor-led implementations or package-based solutions.

•         Background in transformation or platform migration programmes.

•         Technical awareness across middleware, data flows, or batch processing within back office systems.

•         Experience managing budgets and financial tracking across programmes.

Our people 

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle.

We pride ourselves on;

• Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.

• Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.

• Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model

• Investing in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development

• Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise

• Providing an transparent performance and career management experience.

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and build lasting value in disciplines such as:

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction

• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs

• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation

Interested?

At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds.

If you are up to the challenge and would like to find out more, get in touch with us immediately, our internal recruitment team is always keen to hear from dynamic individuals that are looking to further their career and explore their full potential. 

“emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin”