Senior Project Manager Cloud Migration Programme

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.

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Role Description:

LSEG and Microsoft have entered a strategic, long-term partnership to develop next-generation data, analytics, and cloud infrastructure solutions. This collaboration is reshaping how customers discover, analyse, and trade securities globally. It also advances our cloud strategy, enhancing resilience, efficiency, and agility, while enabling Microsoft customers to access our data and analytics through a single, intuitive infrastructure.

As part of this transformation, we are delivering a major cloud programme that includes building a greenfield platform and migrating over 1,000 applications. This is a pivotal initiative that will reshape financial markets infrastructure and unlock new opportunities for innovation.

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead the delivery of complex technical projects. You will work closely with globally distributed, cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery and alignment with programme goals. This role is ideal for someone with strong software delivery experience and a proven track record of managing large-scale projects in financial services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Project Delivery: Take responsibility for guiding the successful delivery of technical projects, ensuring alignment with programme objectives and timelines.
• Planning & Execution: Develop and manage detailed project plans, budgets, and resource allocations.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with product owners, architects, and engineering leads to ensure clear communication and delivery focus.
• Risk & Issue Management: Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project-level risks and issues.
• Dependency Management: Coordinate with other project teams to manage interdependencies and ensure smooth delivery.
• Governance & Reporting: Ensure adherence to LSEG's project governance standards and provide regular updates to senior decision-makers.
• Team Performance: Support teams in delivering high-quality outcomes efficiently and collaboratively.
• Financial Oversight: Track project budgets, forecasts, and resource utilisation to ensure good financial health.
  
  

Candidate Profile / Key Skills:

• Proven experience delivering large-scale technical projects, ideally within financial services or investment banking.
• Strong background in software delivery and cloud transformation.
• Excellent stakeholder and vendor management skills, including experience working with global teams.
• Solid understanding of project management methodologies (e.g. PRINCE2, APM).
• Familiarity with Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) tools is advantageous.
• Degree or equivalent professional experience.
  
  

Why Join Us:

• Be part of a high-impact, high-visibility transformation programme.
• Work at the forefront of innovation in financial technology.
• Collaborate with world-class teams across LSEG and Microsoft.
• Enjoy a flexible, hybrid working environment with opportunities for growth.
  
  

Benefits:

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as we will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!

We Maximise Each Employee's Potential Through Personal Development Through a Wide Range Of Learning Tools Both Formal And Informal. We Believe In Remunerating Our People With Competitive Salaries And a Range Of Attractive Benefits Such As:

• 25 days' holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Dental Coverage
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events
• All LSEG colleagues with at least one year's continuous service, who become parents, are now entitled to at least 26 weeks' paid leave, and the option to return to work on a phased basis, in relation with specific company's policy and guidelines
  
  

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone's race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

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