Senior Technical Programme Manager

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Taylor & Francis is one of the world’s largest publishers of high-quality, peer reviewed scholarly journals, books, e-books and reference works. We empower learners, thinkers and doers with trusted knowledge that advances research and enriches lives. We bring together diverse people, ideas and opinions to validate and publish the experts, theories and truths that matter. And we’ve been doing this in an unbroken arc since 1798.

Our purpose is to foster human progress through knowledge. We strongly believe that this requires us to encourage and examine different ideas and voices, so that any work that meets our exacting levels of quality deserves to be included in our publications. This requires open minds, the opportunity for robust debate, and the courage to defend perspectives that stand up to scrutiny, even if they conflict with our personal beliefs or values. Because that’s the only way to find the best obtainable version of the truth and, ultimately, foster human progress. If you agree, then we’d love to hear from you.

Role Overview

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Technical Programme & Delivery Manager to lead programme delivery across a Focus Area (e.g., Produce, Sell, Deliver, or Engage & Grow) within our new domain-driven operating model. This is a strategic leadership role that spans multiple business domains, requiring you to orchestrate complex, interdependent programmes while balancing competing priorities.

Reporting to the Director, Technical Portfolio Management, you will be accountable for the successful delivery of transformation initiatives including our Unified Content (UC) Platform, legacy system transitions, in-year revenue commitments, and ongoing simplification work. You will work at the intersection of business strategy and technical execution, partnering with Domain Leads, Product Directors, Engineering Heads, and senior business stakeholders.

This role requires someone who can operate with significant autonomy, exercise independent judgement on matters of strategic importance, and influence outcomes across organizational boundaries.

Scope & Level

Scope: You own and deliver programmes/initiatives to achieve organisation-level goals and key results across multiple domains within your Focus Area.

Complexity: Addresses problems and solutions spanning multiple teams and domains, building consensus at intra-department level.

Discretion: Uses independent judgement and unique knowledge to contribute to and influence department-level goals and objectives.

Interaction: Works primarily with senior leadership, Domain Leads, and cross-functional executives.

Supervision: Acts independently to determine best practices and procedures. May supervise or mentor other programme managers.

What You'll Be Doing

Strategic Programme Leadership

Own the integrated roadmap across 2-4 domains within your Focus Area, ensuring alignment with business strategy and UC Platform delivery

Balance and prioritise competing demands: UC Platform go-live, legacy system transitions, in-year revenue commitments, tech debt reduction, and simplification initiatives

Develop and maintain visibility across all transformation workstreams, providing clear line-of-sight from strategy to execution

Build business cases for major initiatives, securing capital funding and resource allocation in partnership with senior leadership

Identify and manage dependencies across domains, proactively resolving conflicts and removing blockers

Drive quarterly planning and alignment across your Focus Area, ensuring domain roadmaps are coherent and achievable

Transformation & Transition Management

Lead the transition from legacy/existing systems to the Unified Content Platform within your Focus Area

Manage the complexity of running parallel systems during transition periods while maintaining operational stability

Ensure in-year revenue targets are protected during transformation activities

Drive simplification initiatives that reduce technical complexity and operational overhead

Coordinate cutover planning, data migration, and go-live activities across multiple domains

Cross-Domain Orchestration

Serve as the primary integration point across domains within your Focus Area, ensuring coherent delivery

Facilitate cross-domain dependency management, working with peer Senior TPMs in other Focus Areas

Lead governance forums and steering committees at the Focus Area level

Manage escalations and drive resolution of issues that span multiple domains

Ensure consistent delivery practices and standards across your Focus Area

Senior Stakeholder Management

Partner with Domain Leads, Product Directors, and Engineering Heads to align on priorities and delivery approach

Provide regular updates to senior leadership on programme health, risks, and strategic decisions required

Build trusted relationships with business stakeholders, translating technical complexity into business impact

Represent the Focus Area in portfolio-level discussions and planning sessions

Influence and negotiate across organizational boundaries to achieve programme outcomes

Team Leadership & Capability Building

Mentor and coach TPMs and Project Managers working within your Focus Area

Build programme management capability and maturity across the domains you support

Champion best practices in delivery methodology, tooling, and governance

Contribute to the strategic direction of the PMO function

Essential

10+ years of experience in technical programme management, with at least 4 years leading programmes spanning multiple teams or departments

Proven track record of delivering complex transformation programmes involving system transitions, platform migrations, or large-scale technology change

Experience balancing multiple competing priorities (e.g., new platform delivery vs. keeping existing systems running vs. revenue protection)

Strong commercial awareness with experience managing programmes with significant revenue or cost implications

Demonstrated ability to operate with autonomy, exercising independent judgement on matters of strategic importance

Excellence in senior stakeholder management, with experience influencing at Director/VP level

Experience in software development environments with strong understanding of agile, lean, and hybrid delivery methodologies

Outstanding communication skills - able to translate complex technical concepts for business audiences and vice versa

Desirable

Experience in publishing, media, or content platforms

Background in domain-driven design or capability-based operating models

Experience with large-scale platform consolidation or legacy system decommissioning

Formal programme management qualification (MSP, PgMP, or equivalent)

Experience leading programmes in a matrix organization with distributed teams

What Success Looks Like

UC Platform capabilities within your Focus Area are delivered on time and adopted successfully

Legacy systems are transitioned smoothly with minimal business disruption

In-year revenue targets are achieved while transformation progresses

Dependencies across domains are proactively managed with no surprise escalations

Stakeholders have clear visibility of programme status and confidence in delivery

Domain teams operate with consistent, mature delivery practices

You are recognized as a trusted partner by Domain Leads and senior leadership

You must have the right to work and live in India.

Location: The successful candidate will be able to utilise our balanced working model. We ask that candidates live within a commutable distance of our Bengaluru office to ensure that as a balanced worker they can make it to our office location to collaborate as required. There is an expectation for a minimum of 3 days per week in-person time.

We believe that great things happen when people connect face-to-face. That's why we work in-person with each other, or with customers and partners, three days a week or more. When you’re not spending time together in one of our offices or other workplaces – like at conference – you get the flexibility and support to work from home or remotely.

What we offer in return:

A competitive salary + bonus

24 days annual leave

4 volunteering days annually

Day off for your birthday

Pension contributions

Medical insurance for self and dependants; life cover and personal accident cover for self

Seasonal social and charitable events

Training and development

Tools and equipment for remote working

We want all our candidates to shine in our recruitment process. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to ensure you are able to show us your best self. This could include having the application form in a different format, more time for questions, or anything else – please ask us, we are happy to be flexible! Please contact recruitment@tandf.co.uk

Being Yourself at Taylor & Francis:

If you’re excited about working with Taylor & Francis to foster human progress through knowledge, we invite you to apply even if your existing skills and experience don’t fit every item listed above. At Taylor & Francis, we are at our best and most successful when colleagues can be themselves and make a contribution regardless of their identity or background. As a colleague, you will have the opportunity to further innovate and develop in areas that you are passionate about. Our goal is to empower you with the resources, incentives, and flexibility you need to enjoy success at work and to live a healthy, balanced life.

Taylor & Francis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in and value diversity of people and thought, fostering a supportive and inclusive environment where all colleagues can learn and succeed as their true selves. Taylor & Francis recruits, develops, and retains colleagues without regard to any protected personal characteristics or other non-merit based factor.

If you have a disability, or face another barrier, and would like to request an adjustment to assist your participation in the hiring process and/or in the advertised position, please contact recruitment@tandf.co.uk . Your request will be reviewed and considered in the strictest confidence.

We genuinely care about our colleagues, promoting work-life balance, wellbeing, and flexible working. We believe that the skills and experience you bring to Taylor & Francis are invaluable. We want you to have the opportunity to develop your abilities, and to innovate and develop in areas which you are passionate about. To find out more about our business and the great career opportunities please go to our Careers Site: http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/careers

Or better yet check out our LinkedIn ‘Life’ Page, highlighting our accomplishments, employees, and company culture. It’s also a good way of meeting our recruitment team, who will be happy to advise you on your journey here at T&F.