Senior Project/Delivery Manager

About Us:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific.

Proud to share LSEG in Romania is Great Place to Work certified (Sept ’24 – Sept ’25). Learn more about life and purpose of our company directly from the Romanian colleagues’ video: Bucharest, Romania | Where We Work | LSEG

Role Description:

We are looking for an experienced Senior Project/Delivery Manager to join the Trading Team. The role will report into the FX Program Manager working with the various development team leads and will have overall delivery accountability.   

The role is accountable for the technical delivery of large-scale technical software development projects, through coordination and management of dedicated scrum teams located in various locations around the globe. 

Key Responsibilities:

Leads projects that involve multiple collaborators, ensuring project charters, coordinated project plans, resource and contingency plans are prioritised and detailed with risk management processes are in place

Works with project sponsors/team members to agree project objectives and success criteria and develops status reports to update key partners on project progress

Evaluates trade-offs between project size, complexity, cost, risk, etc. effectively assessing and resolving high-priority project risks

Leads project workstreams throughout the project lifecycle delivering results that meet the success parameters.

Supervises the project budget request process and performs regular financial reviews, tracking and measuring financial performance against plan and validating financial forecasts

Ensures all projects adhere to LSEG Group Standards for project methodology, governance and risk management
Represents the project in various governance forums.

Specific Responsibilities / Accountabilities:

Technology delivery – lead the delivery across all technology teams in the workstream throughout the end to end delivery chain

Ensuring full engagement of relevant architects to provide solution design and overall architecture alignment

Planning - Accountable for all technology planning activities, including working closely with Development Lead to ensure technology plans are fully and accurately reflected in overall plans and roadmaps

Dependency management - Ensures all impacts of dependencies are addressed in the overall project plan. Effectively work across the organization to ensure all dependent teams are aligned with the project plans and schedules

Risk and Issue Management – Ability to proactively lead risk and issues for the workstream in a timely manner and have the confidence to make decisions to mitigate or resolve when required. Work closely with workstream lead to ensure RAIDS are fully documented, mitigated and called out as required.

Leadership – Lead and work closely with all members of the team, including business analysts, architects, QE and development management to ensure all aspects from intake, requirements, design and testing are fit for purpose and delivered in a timely manner for planning and execution

Team performance - Work closely with the Scrum Mast