Principal Technical Project Manager (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds & London)

Genomics 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.

Working 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.

The 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.

This 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.

Everyday responsibilities include:

• Own end-to-end delivery of key technical workstreams, taking accountability for scope, timelines, and outcomes.
• Validate and agree requirements with the Product Manager and/or Service Owner to ensure delivery against timelines, budgets, and OKRs.
• Establish, maintain, and track delivery plans, escalating risks and deviations where necessary.
• Create and actively manage RAID logs (Risks, Actions, Issues, Dependencies) to support proactive delivery management.
• Produce regular status reports and contribute to programme and governance board updates.
• Implement appropriate governance to ensure compliance with cybersecurity, data protection, and regulatory standards.
• Coordinate cross-team delivery, supporting issue resolution and driving decision-making where uncertainty exists.
• Manage communication across squads, suppliers, and stakeholders, including escalation to senior leadership when required.
• Oversee third-party suppliers and procurement activities, ensuring alignment with governance and approved budgets.
• Provide leadership within the delivery function, including mentoring contributors and supporting line management and best-practice adoption.

Skills and experience for success:

• Extensive experience leading large-scale, complex technical projects within life sciences, healthcare, research, or public sector organisations.
• Strong understanding of the software development.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to plan, prioritise, and escalate appropriately.
• Good commercial and financial acumen, including budget awareness and supplier engagement.
• Demonstrable knowledge of AWS and cloud architectures, with the ability to translate technical requirements and issues for non-technical stakeholders.

Desirable skills:

• Strong knowledge of AWS ecosystem services, including EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, Lambda, EKS, VPC, and Direct Connect.
• Familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, test-driven development, database technologies, and Agile delivery (Scrum and/or Kanban).

Whilst Project Management certifications are desirable, we are mostly interested in your experience.

Salary from: £77,000

Closing date for applications - Friday 10th April

Being 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: 

• Generous 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).
• Family-Friendly: Blended working arrangements, flexible working, enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave benefits.
• Pension & 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.
• Learning & Development: Individual learning budgets, support for training and certifications, and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approval required).
• Recognition & Rewards: Employee recognition programme and referral scheme.
• Health & 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 

Genomics 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. 

Genomics 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.  

Genomics 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. 

We 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. 

Culture

We 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 Culture | Genomics England

Blended working model

Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility that hybrid working can bring. We expect most people to come into the office a minimum of 2 times each month. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that people will return to the office full time unless they want to, however, some of our roles require full time on site attendance e.g., lab teams, reception team. 

Our teams and squads have, and will continue to reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum. Our office locations are: Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.

Onboarding background checks

As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.  We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.