Development Manager, Performance, Risk and Analytics
| Posting date: | 10 October 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 November 2025 |
| Location: | London, WC2R 0QS |
| Company: | NatWest Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | R-00264939 |
Summary
Join us as a Development Manager, Performance, Risk & Analytics
- In this key role, you’ll set the strategic direction of the team, supported by the senior technical members
- You’ll be at the heart of the transition of the Wealth business to a data driven business, leveraging market and investments data to create bespoke solutions for our customers to help them fulfil their financial goals
- This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced manager to share their subject matter expertise and help shape the future direction of the function
- You’ll work from home some of the time, and you’ll also spend twice a week in our London office
What you'll do
As a Development Manager, you’ll take responsibility for the end-to-end delivery of strategic and tactical projects, delivering agreed business outcomes and coordinating with various technology and change teams to achieve this.
We’ll look to you to be making sure that project deliverables can achieve customer goals within a well-considered total cost of ownership, as well as ensuring that the reputation of the bank is built, safeguarded, and kept foremost in the mind, while interacting with all stakeholders.
You’ll also be:
- Making sure that work done is aligned to the principles of software development across the bank
- Delivering architectural and functional improvements that will have a positive impact on our technology estate and business
- Driving and contributing to the technology strategy roadmap
- Understanding and incorporating requirements originating from the programmes in which the project team is involved
- Influencing delivery plans and coordinating delivery across multiple projects and deliverables
The skills you'll need
To thrive in this role, you’ll have good knowledge of technical architecture, and the functionality of applications used to support the business. You’ll also need strong knowledge of project finances and reporting, along with experience of Market Data in financial services as well as familiarity with data products in financial services and data market places.
Experience in leading and managing development teams will be required, as will knowledge of the key phases of software delivery lifecycles and established software development methodologies. We’ll also look for experience in driving change through to a successful conclusion and the ability to influence at all levels.
You’ll also bring:
- Experience of working in a dynamic environment often with shifting priorities
- The ability to quickly understand and be familiar with complex systems
- Experience of delivering projects in geographically dispersed teams
- Experience of vendor management, such as LSEG or Bloomberg
- Experience with AWS and Snowflake or Databricks to deliver data platforms supporting Wealth and Asset managers and the ability to engineer in Python
- A track record of delivering dashboard and information to stakeholders to support decision making
- An entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to solve problems across business units