Technology Manager - 2 year FTC

As Technology Manager for Finance, lead the strategy, delivery, and operation of Finance Technology services. You will oversee SDLC delivery across engineering, architecture, product, and business teams to build secure, scalable solutions. Drive governance, risk management, and continuous improvement while coaching internal teams and partners. You’ll shape transformation initiatives and platform modernisation in a large retail technology setting. This is a two-year fixed-term contract offering broad impact and development opportunities.

• colleague discount
• pensions scheme and life cover
• performance-related bonus up to 20%
• private healthcare
• season ticket loans
• cycle to work scheme

• Own end-to-end technology delivery across the full SDLC (demand intake to production support).
• Provide leadership and governance across agile and waterfall delivery teams to ensure secure, reliable outcomes.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, product teams, and suppliers to shape designs and manage dependencies.
• Ensure software engineering practices: release, environment management, testing, and operational readiness.
• Lead technology change across complex enterprise landscapes balancing priorities, constraints and risk.
• Oversee application lifecycle management, technical debt reduction, and platform modernisation.
• Drive delivery for transformation, regulatory, and compliance initiatives.
• Ensure services are secure, resilient, and robust through risk, cyber, disaster recovery and continuity planning.
• Lead service management activities (incident, problem, change) to improve reliability and performance.
• Manage technology risks, controls, audits, and remediation activities.
• Provide technical governance across projects and service changes.
• Build strong relationships with strategic suppliers and delivery partners; manage budgets for change and run activities.
• Lead, coach, and develop internal teams and third-party partners to deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Champion automation, innovation, and continuous improvement across the Finance Technology estate.

• Strong SDLC understanding including requirements management, design, development, testing, release, and production support.
• Broad technology delivery experience across enterprise apps, integrations, cloud platforms, SaaS, and operational services.
• Knowledge of modern software delivery practices: Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, release governance.
• Experience overseeing delivery from implementation to ongoing support.
• Ability to challenge designs, assess risks, and make informed technology decisions without being hands-on engineer.
• Experience managing enterprise technology services, including service ownership, performance, vendor management, governance.
• Experience managing third-party suppliers and outsourced providers.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across levels.
• Experience delivering transformation programmes while maintaining operational stability.
• Knowledge of ITIL, service management, risk, and technology governance.
• Understanding of cyber security, resilience, disaster recovery, and compliance requirements.
• Commercial acumen with budget, contract, and supplier performance management.
• Collaborative leadership with ability to motivate teams and deliver results.

• collaborative leadership
• stakeholder management
• ability to influence at all levels
• SDLC
• Agile
• DevOps