About The Business
Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business, helping to enable brighter financial futures for every generation.
Quilter oversees £141.9 billion in customer investments as of 31 March 2026. It offers financial advice, investment platforms, multi‑asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management, divided into Affluent and High Net Worth segments.
Affluent includes the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform, and Quilter Investors. High Net Worth covers discretionary fund management via Quilter Cheviot and Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning, offering a highly personalised service to private clients, charities, trustees and professional partners, with presence across the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands.
Quilter never stands still. Our foundations are rooted in exceptional expertise, trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, and we have big ambitions to stay ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve, including our colleagues.
Our business is transforming, continually modernising and becoming more customer‑centric. If you want to be bold in pursuing ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge to evolve what we do, it is the perfect time to join us!
About The Role
Level: 4
Department: Technology
Location: Southampton
Contract type: Permanent
Technology department is Quilter Group’s primary engine for technology change, delivering robust infrastructure and IT service operations that everyone can depend upon. It brings technology‑enabled innovation to market by developing relevant, integrated and optimised solutions that are scalable, commercially viable and deliver long‑term value aligned to the business strategy.
Working as a strategic partner to the business, our mission is to build informed and robust future‑orientated technology and skills capabilities, creating an environment for people and business to prosper, focusing on reducing complexity and excelling in strategy execution.
The team seeks a dynamic Technical Project Manager to help deliver the technology portfolio of work.
Responsibilities
As part of the team, you will be responsible for:
* Delivering projects in partnership with key stakeholders to meet agreed milestones, priorities, standards and budget.
* Defining project organization structures and resourcing models, negotiating with third‑party supply teams to deliver projects effectively.
* Leading project inter‑dependencies and constraints, adhering to governance processes, standards and reporting.
* Managing project risks and issues, impact‑assessing, mitigating, and escalating appropriately.
* Monitoring project performance through clearly defined metrics and KPIs.
* Measuring and tracking project finances, progress against milestones and quality, taking corrective action where necessary.
* Ensuring project plans are produced, actively maintained, detailed and consistently aligned to the overall plan.
About You
The Technical Project Manager will have experience managing software development projects, delivery of digital products, data migrations or platform migrations, preferably in an enterprise environment.
Experience in the financial sector is not essential but advantageous, as delivering technical changes may require business understanding within a well‑governed change environment.
We work with waterfall and agile methods, using tools such as Jira, Microsoft Project and Project Online.
The individual will have the following capabilities:
* Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle, including environment structures, testing phases and release disciplines.
* Effectively manages change and initiates improved ways of working that positively impact customers.
* Communicates with clarity and impact; demonstrates excellent listening, verbal and written communication skills.
* Data‑curious mindset with analytical skills to shape initiatives.
* Detail‑conscious, demonstrating task and finance control.
* Objectively and systematically analyses problems and risks to develop appropriate mitigating solutions.
* Agile and effective decision‑making within remit, executing quickly and focussed.
* Collaborates effectively with stakeholders and colleagues to positively impact results and deliver customer outcomes.
* Strong interpersonal skills, building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders, colleagues and suppliers.
* Ability to influence, persuade and challenge stakeholders.
* Strong leadership capability, engaging, motivating, coaching and developing individuals to meet target deliverables positively.
* Maintains focus and drive for results, operating calmly in high‑pressure situations.
* Demonstrates credibility, professionalism and strong personal integrity, acting as a role model for Quilter values – Pioneering, Dependable, Stronger Together.
Qualifications include Prince2, MSP, APM, Scrum Master, Stakeholder Management and Risk Management.
Inclusion & Diversity
We value diversity and strive to promote inclusivity in all aspects of our culture. We believe in equal opportunities for all, ensuring that no applicant encounters less favourable treatment based on anything but their skills, qualifications, experience and potential, and create a respectful, nurturing environment where every colleague can thrive.
Values
Do the right thing – We act with integrity and are committed to going above and beyond in service of our clients and communities.
Always curious – We continuously seek new ideas and knowledge to stay ahead of our clients’ needs, encouraging experimentation and the creation of brilliant solutions.
Embrace challenge – We aim high to transform potential into meaningful outcomes, driven by ambition and a commitment to growth.
Stronger together – We combine diverse talents, work collaboratively, support each other and embrace new ideas, demonstrating ownership, trust and impactful decision‑making.
Core Benefits
* Holiday: 182 hours (26 days)
* Quilter Incentive Scheme: All employees are eligible to participate.
* Pension Scheme: Non‑contributory company pension scheme that can be boosted by personal contributions.
* Private Medical Insurance: Single cover as standard, with options to increase coverage to include partner or children.
* Life Assurance: 4x salary.
* Income Protection: 75% of salary, less state benefits, payable after 26 weeks of absence.
* Healthcare Cash Plan: Jersey employees only.
In addition to our core benefits, we offer a range of flexible benefits for UK employees that can be chosen and paid for conveniently via a salary deduction.
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