Own and drive end‑to‑end technical delivery across core market data infrastructure platforms, including storage and associated data and analytics stacks, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, and fit for long‑term strategic use.
Partner closely with business stakeholders, product owners, and technology teams to deeply understand business objectives and requirements, challenging legacy approaches and solution bias to ensure the right problems are being solved. Lead solution intent reviews and technical design discussions, ensuring proposed architectures and implementations are aligned with business goals, enterprise standards, and strategic technology direction. Define clear, unambiguous delivery plans and implementation guidance for engineering teams, including scope, success criteria, non‑functional requirements, and operational readiness expectations. Provide strong technical oversight throughout the delivery lifecycle, including design validation, development progress, testing approach, release readiness, and post‑deployment stabilisation. Act as a senior delivery partner to Agile teams, supporting sprint planning, dependency management, issue resolution, and delivery governance, while maintaining focus on outcomes rather than outputs. Ensure effective coordination across front‑to‑back technology and business streams, managing cross‑team dependencies and aligning multiple workstreams to a coherent delivery roadmap. Support and oversee user acceptance testing activities, ensuring business users are well prepared, test coverage is fit for purpose, and outcomes meet agreed success criteria. Proactively identify delivery risks, technical debt, and execution impediments, defining mitigation strategies and escalating appropriately with clear, timely communication to stakeholders. Build and maintain strong working relationships with senior business and technology stakeholders, acting as a trusted delivery lead who can balance technical depth with pragmatic execution. Maintain a strong delivery focus, driving accountability across teams, tracking commitments, and ensuring milestones and deadlines are consistently met.