Principal Technical Project Manager (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds & London)
2 days ago
London
Company Description\n\nGenomics England is a global leader in enabling genomic medicine and research, focused on creating a world where everyone benefits from genomic healthcare. Building on the 100,000 Genomes Project, we support the NHS’s world-first national whole genome sequencing service and run the growing National Genomic Research Library, alongside delivering numerous major genomics initiatives. By connecting research and clinical care at national scale, we enable immediate healthcare benefits and advances for the future.\n\nOur mission is to provide the evidence and digital systems so that by 2035 genomics could play a role in up to half of all healthcare interactions, whilst securing the UK’s position as the best place to discover, prove and benefit from genomic innovations.\n\nWe are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.\n\nBehind the Healthcare and Research outcomes, Genomics England delivers through designing, developing and operating complex healthcare software systems.\n\nWe're on the cusp of big changes with the real prospect of genomics becoming the fabric of everyday healthcare through the lifetime – from birth to old age.\n\nJob Description\n\nGenomics England is delivering a new, modern Research Environment (RE3) to support world-leading genomics research and is seeking a Principal Technical Project Manager to lead complex technical initiatives within the programme.\n\nWorking with the RE3 Programme Manager, you will oversee multiple interdependent workstreams, ensuring delivery aligns with programme objectives, governance, and PMO standards while coordinating activity across squads, suppliers, and partners.\n\nThe role includes ongoing management of technical components, providing delivery support to the Service Owner, and overseeing cross-squad activity, third-party suppliers, and platform integration.\n\nThis senior position requires strong technical expertise, stakeholder engagement skills, experience delivering complex platforms in regulated or data-intensive environments and may include line management responsibilities.\n\nEveryday responsibilities include:\n\nOwn end-to-end delivery of key technical workstreams, taking accountability for scope, timelines, and outcomes.\nValidate and agree requirements with the Product Manager and/or Service Owner to ensure delivery against timelines, budgets, and OKRs.\nEstablish, maintain, and track delivery plans, escalating risks and deviations where necessary.\nCreate and actively manage RAID logs (Risks, Actions, Issues, Dependencies) to support proactive delivery management.\nProduce regular status reports and contribute to programme and governance board updates.\nImplement appropriate governance to ensure compliance with cybersecurity, data protection, and regulatory standards.\nCoordinate cross-team delivery, supporting issue resolution and driving decision-making where uncertainty exists.\nManage communication across squads, suppliers, and stakeholders, including escalation to senior leadership when required.\nOversee third-party suppliers and procurement activities, ensuring alignment with governance and approved budgets.\nProvide leadership within the delivery function, including mentoring contributors and supporting line management and best-practice adoption.Skills and experience for success:\n\nExtensive experience leading large-scale, complex technical projects within life sciences, healthcare, research, or public sector organisations.\nStrong understanding of the software development.\nExcellent communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively across technical and non-technical audiences.\nStrong stakeholder management skills with the ability to plan, prioritise, and escalate appropriately.\nGood commercial and financial acumen, including budget awareness and supplier engagement.\nDemonstrable knowledge of AWS and cloud architectures, with the ability to translate technical requirements and issues for non-technical stakeholders.Desirable skills:\n\nStrong knowledge of AWS ecosystem services, including EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, Lambda, EKS, VPC, and Direct Connect.\nFamiliarity with Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, test-driven development, database technologies, and Agile delivery (Scrum and/or Kanban).\n\nQualifications\n\nWhilst Project Management certifications are desirable, we are mostly interested in your experience.\n\nAdditional Information\n\nSalary from: £77,000\n\nClosing date for applications - Wednesday 15th April\n\nBeing an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including: \n\nGenerous Leave: 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, additional leave for long service, and the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required).\nFamily-Friendly: Blended working arrangements, flexible working, enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave benefits.\nPension & Financial: Defined contribution pension (Genomics England double-matches up to 10%, however you can contribute more if you wish), Life Assurance (3x salary), and a Give As You Earn scheme.\nLearning & Development: Individual learning budgets, support for training and certifications, and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approval required).\nRecognition & Rewards: Employee recognition programme and referral scheme.\nHealth & Wellbeing: Subsidised gym membership, a free Headspace account, and access to an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu jabs.Equal opportunities and our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace \n\nGenomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background. \n\nGenomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor. \n\nGenomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties. Our People policies outline our commitment to inclusivity. \n\nWe aim to remove barriers in our recruitment processes and to be flexible with our interview processes. Should you require any adjustments that may help you to fully participate in the recruitment process, we encourage you to discuss this with us. \n\nCulture\n\nWe have four key behaviours that represent what we would like Genomics England to feel like and the culture we want to encourage, in order for us to achieve our mission. These behaviours help us all work well together, deliver on our outcomes, celebrate our successes and share feedback with each other. You can read about these and other aspects of our culture here