Role: Programme Manager - Calypso Implementations
Level: Senior (10+ years' experience)
Industry: Financial Services / Capital Markets Technology
Client Type: Banks, asset managers, exchanges, clearing houses, financial market infrastructure organisations
Delivery Focus: Large-scale platform implementations, upgrades and migrations
What They're Really Looking For
The ideal candidate will combine:
✅ Strong programme delivery experience
✅ Capital markets domain expertise
✅ Executive stakeholder management skills
✅ experience delivering complex technology implementations
✅ Credibility in front of Senior client stakeholders
Direct Calypso experience is preferred, but candidates from comparable platforms including Murex, SimCorp, FIS, Finastra, Broadridge, or ION would also be considered.
Core Responsibilities
The successful candidate will:
- Lead end-to-end implementation programmes
- Manage budgets, timelines, resources and governance
- Own RAID management (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies)
- Chair steering committees and Senior stakeholder meetings
- Coordinate cross-functional delivery teams
- Manage client expectations and escalations
- Oversee testing, migration, cutover and go-live activities
- Ensure successful delivery within regulated financial services environments
Key Skills Required
Programme Management
- Complex programme delivery
- Governance and reporting
- Budget and commercial management
- Scope and change control
- Risk and issue management
- Executive communication
Capital Markets Knowledge
experience across one or more of:
- Trading
- Treasury
- Risk Management
- Collateral Management
- Clearing & Settlement
- Post-Trade Operations
- Fixed Income
- FX
- Derivatives
Stakeholder Management
The role requires interaction with:
- Front Office
- Middle Office
- Back Office
- Operations
- Risk
- Treasury
- Compliance
- Technology Leadership
- Senior Client Executives
Strong Backgrounds for This Role
Candidates who are currently or previously:
- Programme Manager
- Senior Project Manager
- Delivery Lead
- Implementation Lead
- Project Director
- Professional Services Manager
within:
- Capital markets technology vendors
- Consulting firms
- Financial services transformation programmes
- Investment banks
- Asset management firms would align well.
Nice-to-Haves
- Calypso implementation experience
- Murex, SimCorp, ION, Broadridge, FIS or Finastra experience
- Consulting or vendor-side delivery background
- PMP, PRINCE2 or Agile certification
- Regulatory and compliance programme experience
Overall Assessment
This is effectively a Senior transformation delivery role rather than a traditional project management position. The strongest candidates will have delivered large-scale capital markets platform implementations, possess deep financial markets knowledge, and be comfortable operating as the primary interface between clients, delivery teams and executive sponsors.
Job Title: Programme Manager (Calypso)
Location: London, UK
Job Type: Contract
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