Engineering Operations Manager: Large-Scale Programmes, SOX & Controls

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We’re looking for a Senior Technical Programme Manager to lead large-scale engineering programmes and help engineering tribes improve planning, prioritisation and delivery.

You’ll turn broad priorities into clear plans, work through technical dependencies and help teams resolve risks and competing priorities. You’ll also lead technology control improvements, working with engineering and specialists in Risk, Compliance and Audit on requirements including SOX and IT General Controls.

This role suits someone who takes initiative, brings structure to ambiguous problems and follows delivery through to completion. You’ll be comfortable working closely with engineers, challenging incomplete plans and making sure decisions lead to action.

How we work

You’ll join a small Engineering Operations team, working across engineering and business functions. We bring clarity to complex work through practical planning, clear ownership and consistent follow-through.

You’ll partner with tribe leadership on planning and operational improvements, and coordinate delivery with engineering teams and control owners. Engineering teams retain responsibility for technical decisions, while control owners remain accountable for control execution and evidence.

What you’ll achieve:

• Lead complex technical programmes. Turn broad priorities into clear outcomes, scope, workstreams and milestones. Drive delivery across engineering teams, from initial planning and technical dependencies through rollout and ongoing operations.

• Partner with engineering leaders. Support tribe-level planning, prioritisation and operational reviews, helping teams make realistic commitments and follow through on them.

• Resolve risks and dependencies. Identify blockers early, clarify ownership and bring the right people together to resolve competing priorities and make decisions that keep delivery moving.

• Make progress and decisions clear. Give stakeholders a dependable view of delivery, risks and trade-offs. Challenge unsupported progress updates and escalate issues with clear impact and practical options.

• Deliver technology control improvements. Work with engineering, Risk, Compliance and Audit to translate control requirements, including SOX and IT General Controls, into practical delivery plans. Coordinate remediation, testing readiness and validated closure.

• Improve how engineering operates. Use data and automation to reduce manual reporting and coordination. Build practical frameworks, guidance and training that help teams adopt better ways of working.

• Make changes sustainable. Establish clear ownership, processes and handovers so programme outcomes and control improvements become part of everyday operations.

What you’ll bring:

• A strong track record of independently leading complex technical programmes across multiple engineering teams and business functions, with clear delivery outcomes.

• Enough technical understanding to work through system dependencies, implementation constraints and rollout decisions with engineers.

• Experience working closely with engineering leaders on planning, priorities, dependencies and operational improvements.

• Experience delivering technical programmes involving security, technology risk, regulatory requirements or control improvements. You can work with specialists to turn requirements into engineering plans and follow them through to completion. Direct SOX or ITGC experience is valuable.

• An understanding of control ownership, evidence requirements and the distinction between implementing a change and having it validated for closure.

• The ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear plans, take ownership and drive progress without relying on formal authority.

• Strong stakeholder management and the confidence to challenge unclear ownership, incomplete plans and unsupported progress claims.

• Clear communication, including the ability to facilitate difficult discussions and give leaders concise updates on progress, risks and decisions.

• An analytical approach, using data to identify problems, assess progress and improve ways of working.

You don’t need to meet every requirement. If you bring strong technical programme delivery experience and relevant experience with risk or controls, we’d love to hear from you.

£92,000-£118,000k

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