Senior Project Manager - London - Fintech

Description

WE ARE:

At Adaptive, we are a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage.

Our clients include the world’s leading investment banks, investment managers, fintechs and capital market service providers. With a global reach with offices in Manila, London, New York, Barcelona and Montreal, we have a proven track record delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions.

We are now looking for a Project Manager to join our London team on a new exciting project !

If you feel like this is you, you might be a perfect fit for this role!

Responsibilities

• Manage the project:
• Own and maintain an integrated delivery plan and prioritised backlog connecting product outcomes, client milestones, resourcing, and dependencies.
• Proactively identify, track, and mitigate cross-team dependencies and RAID items across technical, operational, and commercial domains.
• Provide regular status reporting, burndown tracking, and actionable options to address slippage or scope changes.
• Manage the sprint and release cadence, overseeing scope cut-offs, go/no-go readiness, non-functional requirements, and support handover.
• Protect product quality and release confidence by ensuring thorough testing, operational readiness, and transparent blocker triage.
• Manage a team:
• Coordinate distributed teams and regional leads, address capacity or capability gaps, and support onboarding.
• Drive continuous improvement via retrospectives, servant leadership, and resolving recurring challenges.
• Empower team decision-making while expanding domain, delivery, and product expertise.
• Foster a collaborative, psychologically safe environment across regions, roles, and workflows.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across Engineering, QA, BA, SRE, Product, and Client Delivery while ensuring accountability.
• Manage people:
• Hold routine 1:1s to discuss feedback, well-being, growth, and performance alignment.
• Set clear goals and standards, monitor progress, and provide timely guidance.
• Recognise high impact and provide objective input for performance, promotion, and compensation reviews.
• Resolve performance issues or friction fairly, escalating to People Ops or leadership when necessary.
• Manage resourcing:
• Establish risk mitigation strategies and succession plans for key roles, governance, and client relationships.
• Manage client & stakeholders:
• Lead client delivery governance, maintaining transparent records of scope, decisions, assumptions, and contractual commitments.
• Finance:
• Partner with Account Management and leadership to manage budgets, resource costs, revenue forecasts, and commercial margin risks
• WHY US:
• To be immersed in high-standard engineering culture. Our fantastic team takes pride in crafting complex technical solutions but also loves sharing their knowledge and helping you grow professionally (we have extraordinary minds at Adaptive, some of us worked at NASA too )
• You can learn from anyone here, which is the beauty of it
• To take part in the growth and development of a great company
• Our teams feel free to speak up, make suggestions and raise concerns.
• Collaborative team environment: we all work together, respect each other, and pitch in
• Great consideration for work/life balance (highly-flexible, hybrid working model, well-being benefits…). Balance between professional and personal life is massively important to us.
• We work hard to provide a positive, collaborative and inclusive culture and to positively impact our staff and local communities through different well-being, diversity and inclusion programmes.
• WHAT PEOPLE THINK OF US
• You can check our Glassdoor page

Requirements

• Credible and trusted by clients, with a strong consulting presence.
• Confident to reason, debate and push back when needed, advocating for and protecting your team.
• A senior delivery professional with a strong background in software delivery and software service delivery.
• Highly experienced in Agile, including the end-to-end Agile delivery process, and confident challenging it where it isn’t working.
• Skilled in creating and maintaining clear documentation, including setting up wikis for highly bespoke software.
• AS A PM YOU WILL ENSURE THAT:
• Adaptive’s standard PM practices are combined with the programme-level planning, governance and release discipline used across the Accelerator teams.
• Productisation and client delivery move forward together, with the roadmap turned into executable plans.
• The team has a clear, prioritised plan covering product roadmap, client commitments, releases and dependencies.
• Engineering, BA, QA, SRE, Product, Consulting and Client Delivery understand their responsibilities and can work without avoidable blockers.
• Stakeholders receive accurate, timely information on progress, risk, scope, cost and decisions.
• Releases are planned, tested, documented and communicated with clear go/no-go ownership.
• Product and client feedback is converted into structured backlog items, roadmap decisions and reusable product knowledge.
• Adaptive can forecast delivery capacity, revenue, margin and risk with confidence.

Benefits

• For permanent employees:
• We create benefits with YOU in mind.
• 25 days holiday
• Family medical and dental
• Pension plan
• Season ticket loan
• Gym subsidy
• Life insurance
• Long-term disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Plan
• For contractors:
• All our contracts are outside IR35
• THE PROCESS
• Long interview processes are stressful and boring and that is not us
• We want to make sure that everything runs smoothly.
• So here you will have three stage interviews:
• 1- A chat with one of our great recruiters.
• 2- A zoom chat with one of our PM where they will ask you detailed questions about your experience
• 3 - A Face to Face interview (either in our office or via Zoom).
• But don’t worry; everything will be explained to you step by step by your recruiter.
• A little tip for you during those stages:
• Collaboration is massively important to us, so don't hesitate to share your thoughts, ask questions, ask for help if needed, etc