Vice President Programme & Change Manager (SRE)

TL;DR

Vice President Programme & Change Manager (SRE): Leading a major cross-Engineering transformation initiative within Site Reliability Engineering with an accent on enhancing the firm’s reliability posture and operational resilience. Focus on driving strategic change, programme governance, and embedding SRE principles across complex, multi-year, firm-wide programmes.

Location: Onsite in London, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global, founded in 1869, is a leading global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm headquartered in New York with offices around the world.

What you will do

• Lead strategic SRE-wide and Core Engineering programmes, driving cross-divisional change initiatives.
• Provide programme governance, transparent reporting, and senior stakeholder engagement for Engineering leadership.
• Manage programme-level risks, issues, and dependencies across multiple engineering teams.
• Coordinate cross-functional delivery execution with Product, Design, Engineering, and Cloud teams.
• Promote SRE best practices and modern programme tooling for operational excellence.
• Champion SRE's mission by embedding reliability, observability, and automation into all change frameworks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 7–10+ years of programme management, transformation leadership, or large‑scale engineering change experience.
• Proven track record delivering cross‑functional programmes involving teams from many disciplines.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence senior technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Experience managing risk, budgets, multi‑team dependencies, and programme governance.
• Work from the London office is required.

Nice to have

• Understanding of SRE principles, production operations, digital resilience, observability tooling, and cloud‑native platforms.
• Experience in large engineering organisations or technology‑led transformation.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery, OKRs, JIRA/Confluence, and enterprise planning tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Commitment to fostering diversity and inclusion through various opportunities for professional and personal growth.
• Firmwide networks, training and development, benefits, wellness, and personal finance offerings.
• Committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities.
• Offers best-in-class benefits.