Role: Project
Manager
Location:
London – Hybrid/3 days in office
Start Date:
12th October 2026
End Date: 12th April 2027
Daily Rate:
Inside IR35
Payroll
provider: Rockford Payroll Info for Contingent Workers – Rockford Pay
The Role
This is an
exciting opportunity to join Deloitte Operations for an engagement with one of
our clients.
The Workflow
& Orchestration program is a high-visibility, multi-year global transformation
initiative within Markets & Securities Services Operations. The program is dedicated to
migrating legacy, manual data processes into a highly automated, modernized
centralized orchestration framework.
As the Project
Manager, you will be responsible for the end-to-end planning, execution,
and delivery of
this critical transformation portfolio. You will orchestrate cross functional teams.
of business analysts, data engineers, and operations specialists. Your focus will be on
driving project milestones, managing budgets, mitigating delivery risks, and ensuring the
seamless implementation of the Target Operating Model (TOM) across global
asset classes on time and within scope.
Key
Responsibilities:
- End-to-End
Project Execution: Define, structure, and execute the comprehensive project
plan for the data orchestration roll-out. Own the delivery lifecycle from
initiation and resource planning through to deployment and project closure.
- Governance
& Milestone Management: Establish robust project governance structures.
Monitor progress against critical path milestones, manage dependencies across
intersecting bank programs, and report delivery health to steering committees
and senior leadership.
- Risk,
Issue & Dependency Management: Proactively identify, track, and mitigate
project risks and issues (RAID log management). Resolve complex bottlenecks
across technical and operational business boundaries to ensure uninterrupted
project momentum.
- Financial
& Resource Management: Manage the project budget, tracking actual spend
against forecasts. Optimize global resource allocations across multiple delivery
pods to ensure maximum productivity and cost-effective transformation.
- Stakeholder
Coordination & Alignment: Serve as the central point of contact for global
operations executives, technology delivery heads, and data governance leads.
Navigate the bank’s matrixed environment to ensure unified alignment on project
timelines and deliverables.
- Business
Readiness & Deployment: Oversee the operational readiness, cutover
tracking, and change management strategies required to decommission legacy
workflows and smoothly transition global teams to the new orchestrated framework.
Experience
& Skills Required
- Project
Management Expertise: Minimum of 8 years of formal Project Management
experience within an Investment Banking or Global Markets environment, with a
proven track record of successfully steering large-scale operational
transformation, system migrations, or automation initiatives.
- Methodology
& Certifications: Mastery of project management methodologies, with
practical experience blending Agile/Scrum execution with traditional Waterfall
governance (Hybrid delivery). Professional certification such as PMP, PRINCE2,
or Agile Project Management (AgilePM) is highly desirable.
- Transformation
& Leadership: Strong commercial acumen and experience using structured
change management frameworks. Exceptional leadership, negotiation, and
conflict-resolution skills to drive global, culturally diverse teams.
Domain &
Data Awareness:
- Solid
understanding of the operational complexities within Markets & Securities
Services (MSS) or Traded Risk.
- Strong
conceptual familiarity with data infrastructure delivery, including workflow/orchestration
engines, data pipeline modernizations, and cloud/on-premises data migration
projects.