Technical Project Lead

We’re looking for an experienced Technical Project Lead to help deliver a significant five-year transformation within Group Protection. The programme is replacing a complex legacy policy administration platform that has been developed and customised over many years. You’ll work closely with the Head of Transformation, taking ownership of day-to-day delivery across technology, business and supplier teams. This is a hands-on leadership role. You’ll need to understand what is happening beneath the headline status reports, use delivery tools to validate progress and turn complex information into clear actions and decisions for senior stakeholders What you'll be doing: - Leading day-to-day delivery across a complex legacy transformation programme - Coordinating engineering, business, architecture and third-party supplier workstreams - Validating progress, scope and delivery evidence directly through Jira and Confluence - Managing plans, milestones, budgets, risks, issues and cross-programme dependencies - Driving Agile planning, backlog management, prioritisation and release coordination - Preparing clear executive presentations, governance updates and decision materials - Facilitating governance forums and ensuring actions and decisions are followed through - Building trusted relationships across business and technology teams to remove blockers Who we're looking for: - Experience leading large-scale technical transformation, modernisation or platform replacement programmes - Evidence of delivering complex technology programmes of comparable scale, ideally £10 million-plus - Strong hands-on capability with Jira and Confluence, including validating progress against scope - Experience working across engineering teams, business stakeholders and external suppliers - Practical knowledge of Agile, Scrum, SAFe or hybrid delivery environments - Strong programme governance, risk, dependency and financial management capability - Confidence producing and presenting concise material for senior and executive stakeholders - An inclusive, pragmatic leadership style with the confidence to challenge constructively Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: - The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes - Generous pension contribution - Life assurance - Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only) - At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday - Competitive family leave - Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only) - There are many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online - We’re creating net‑zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable, modern offices across the UK, all designed to bring people together and elevate the in‑person experience