Trade Project Manager

The role is within a large-scale transformation programme focused on the decommissioning and retirement of legacy applications across Europe and the Americas in the Financial Services sector, specifically Banking.

• Strong background in Trade / Markets / Investment Banking environments
• Proven experience in Financial Services transformation programmes
• Previous involvement in application decommissioning, migration, or legacy system retirement
• Solid understanding of trade lifecycle, financial products, and operational processes
• Experience working across multi-region programmes (Europe and/or Americas preferred)
• Strong stakeholder management skills across business, technology, and senior leadership
• Ability to manage complex, cross-functional delivery in a regulated environment
• Strong governance, planning, and risk management capability
• Experience working in Agile or hybrid delivery environments

• Lead and manage end-to-end delivery of application demise and decommissioning projects across trade platforms
• Oversee transformation workstreams spanning Europe and Americas, ensuring alignment with global standards and timelines
• Coordinate across business, technology, operations, and risk teams to ensure smooth execution of application retirement activities
• Ensure dependencies, risks, and issues are actively managed and escalated where necessary
• Support impact assessments, data migration considerations, and cutover planning linked to legacy system removal
• Work closely with stakeholders to define target-state processes and ensure minimal disruption to trading operations
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, operational, and data retention requirements throughout the demise lifecycle
• Drive governance, reporting, and programme documentation across all phases of delivery
• Partner with architecture and engineering teams to ensure safe shutdown and replacement of systems