PROJECT MANAGER - LONDON - FINTECH - CONTRACT OUTSIDE IR35

At Adaptive, we are a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage.

Our clients include the world's leading investment banks, investment managers, fintechs and capital market service providers. With a global reach with offices in London, New York, Barcelona, Manila and Montreal, we have a proven track record delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions.

We are now looking for PM services on an exciting project!

THE INDIVIDUAL PROVIDING THE SERVICES WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING EXPERIENCE:

• A strategic thinker with great communication skills
• A great relationship builder with the team and clients
• A problem-solver and team player
• Extensive hands-on experience of managing agile delivery projects
• Jira PM tool proficiency
• Domain knowledge – Investment Banking/Front Office Trading Platforms; Foreign Exchange
• Agile SAFe 

DESCRIPTION OF THE SERVICES:

OWN THE DELIVERY PLAN FOR A CLIENT-FACING PROJECT:

• Ensure the project is executed as planned, achieving both the client's and Adaptive's goals
• Work collaboratively with clients to identify, agree, and document the scope
• Maintain a clear, defined, up-to-date delivery plan
• Give stakeholders accurate and timely updates on milestones and progress against the plan
• Actively manage and mitigate project risk
• Tailor processes in accordance with the team structure and align with client requirements
• Actively manage the client's expectations, make assumptions explicit, and create an audit trail of important decisions throughout the engagement
• Liaise with the Engagement Manager to define & implement the communication plan
• Report project status on a weekly basis
• Escalate issues to the respective Engagement Manager in a timely manner to ensure aligned communications, and present the best face of Adaptive to clients

MANAGE A TEAM OF HIGHLY-SKILLED ENGINEERS:

• Ensure the team has a clear understanding of the project goals and their place within it, and are empowered to deliver on commitments
• Promote a Servant Leader mindset, empowering highly-skilled team members to deliver their best, and involve them in decision making
• Understand various software concepts, and use them to discuss problems and orchestrate strategy with various talents in the team:
  ~ Developers: real-time programming, high availability
  ~ QA: TDD, BDD, acceptance criteria
  ~ UX
  ~ BA: backlog management, domain knowledge
  ~ DevOps
  ~ Support
• Work with globally distributed teams, and ensure location is no barrier to progression
• Regularly lend an ear to team members, listening to what they have to say about job satisfaction and aspirations, in the spirit of Adaptive's informal and collegiate staff management style
• Provide a supportive environment where the team's wellbeing is a priority and key to long-term success; check in regularly and manage/escalate any concerns early so steps can be taken to protect our colleagues' wellbeing

WHAT PEOPLE THINK OF US

You can check our Glassdoor page

THE PROCESS

Long interview processes are stressful and boring, and that is not us.

We want to make sure that everything runs smoothly.

So here you will have three stage interviews:
1- A chat with one of our great recruiters.
2- A zoom chat with one of our PMs where they will ask you detailed questions about your experience
3- A Face to Face interview (either in our office or via Zoom).

But don't worry; everything will be explained to you step by step by your recruiter.

A little tip for you during those stages:
Collaboration is massively important to us, so don't hesitate to share your thoughts, ask questions, ask for help if needed, etc

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION:

Diversity and inclusion are key to a great workplace, and Adaptive is better when it's more representative of the world around us. We want everyone to feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work without any fear of judgment or negativity.
All we ask is that our colleagues are respectful, collaborative, passionate about what they do, and have the skills needed to be successful in their roles.

Background check: the employment/engagement is subject to an acceptable background check that will be run by Adaptive