Senior Program Manager

Job Summary

HCLTech is looking for an Engineering Mindset Leader to drive Application Development and Transformation-led delivery for the Informa account. This role owns engineering culture, technical governance, and delivery quality across a portfolio that spans multiple Informa business divisions - bringing engineering consistency and rigor to a technology landscape shaped by years of organic growth and acquisition, while partnering closely with Informa's technology and transformation leadership.

Key Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Mindset & Culture

• Champion a quality-first, automation-first engineering culture across pods working on different Informa business units.
• Institutionalize consistent coding, review, and design standards despite a heterogeneous, multi-stack estate.
• Drive DevSecOps adoption - CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, and shift-left security - as a common baseline across divisions.
• Instill a data- and platform-first engineering discipline suited to subscription, content, and B2B SaaS products.

Delivery Leadership & Technical Governance

• Own end-to-end technical delivery for Informa's AD/Transformation workstreams across multiple business divisions.
• Set up architecture governance - design reviews, standards, and NFR sign-off - that scales across diverse tech stacks.
• Drive platform rationalization and cloud migration, reducing technology sprawl from prior acquisitions.
• Build reusable engineering frameworks and accelerators applicable across business units.
• Track and report engineering health metrics (velocity, defect leakage, deployment frequency, MTTR) to account leadership.

Client & Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as the primary engineering counterpart to Informa's technology and transformation leadership.
• Translate divisional transformation priorities into a coherent, account-wide engineering roadmap.
• Represent HCLTech in technical governance forums, steering committees, and architecture councils.
• Build trusted-advisor relationships that expand HCLTech's engineering footprint across Informa's divisions.
• Lead delivery from an offshore location, ensuring seamless collaboration with onshore/client stakeholders through structured governance, overlap hours, and communication cadences.

Team Building, Coaching & Talent

• Build, mentor, and retain engineering pods aligned to each supported business division.
• Define skilling plans and technical career paths across a broad, multi-technology environment.
• Foster ownership, continuous learning, and engineering craftsmanship across distributed teams.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Drive adoption of platform engineering, data engineering, and GenAI-assisted SDLC practices.
• Lead pilots for tooling and accelerators that support M&A-driven platform integration.

Contribute learnings back into HCLTech's engineering Centre of Excellence

Skill Requirements

Required Skills & Experience

• 16-20 years in IT with substantial experience in Application Development / Digital Transformation delivery.
• Proven track record leading engineering teams of 20+ engineers across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Strong hands-on engineering background across modern web/backend stacks (Java, .NET, Node.js, or similar).
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), microservices architecture, and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Experience integrating or rationalizing diverse technology stacks, ideally following M&A activity.
• Working knowledge of data platforms - SQL/NoSQL databases, ETL/ELT pipelines - for subscription and content products.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills across distributed, global business units.
• Solid grounding in Agile/Scaled Agile delivery models.
• Proven track record successfully leading offshore delivery pods for global/onshore clients, with strong asynchronous communication and governance discipline.

Preferred / Good to Have

• Prior experience in publishing, B2B information services, events/exhibitions, or subscription-based digital products.
• Exposure to CMS, subscription/e-commerce platforms, or event-technology platforms.
• Experience supporting technology integration following mergers or acquisitions.
• Relevant certifications - cloud architect (AWS/Azure), TOGAF, SAFe, or equivalent.
• Exposure to AI/ML-assisted engineering productivity tools.
• Experience in a global delivery / GCC (Global Capability Center) model, with prior offshore leadership for UK/EU/global clients.

What Success Looks Like (First 6-12 Months)

• A common engineering baseline (standards, tooling, governance) adopted across previously siloed business units.
• Measurable reduction in technology sprawl and measurable improvement in delivery/quality metrics.
• Recognized by Informa stakeholders as a credible, account-wide engineering thought leader.
• A stable, motivated, and upskilled engineering organization with a visible succession pipeline.

Other Requirements