Change Project Manager
Posted 1 week ago by Atrium (EMEA)
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary: The Project Manager - Change Specialist will be responsible for managing high-volume, low-risk infrastructure and application changes in a regulated financial services environment. This role requires collaboration within an Agile delivery team to ensure compliance and operational continuity during change events. The position involves executing structured change events, producing detailed documentation, and driving improvements in change governance. The role is hybrid, requiring in-office presence twice a week in either Leeds or Edinburgh.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinate and execute structured change events during defined windows to ensure operational continuity and compliance.
- Produce, validate, and maintain detailed implementation plans and Sequence of Events (SOE) documentation for controlled change delivery.
- Conduct environment readiness and dependency assessments prior to execution.
- Deliver changes across legacy and target environments, including dual-running, decommissioning, and provisioning activities.
- Represent and support changes in governance forums, managing incident escalations and post-change reviews.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, operations, platform engineering, and cybersecurity teams to ensure well-governed change processes.
- Drive adoption of a standardized, scalable change delivery model using JIRA and Confluence.
- Contribute to continuous improvement efforts in change governance, documentation, and operational processes.
Key Skills:
- Minimum of 5 years experience delivering structured infrastructure or platform changes within the banking/financial services sector.
- Strong stakeholder management and risk-based decision-making during live change events.
- Experience assessing, escalating, and supporting change-related incidents in production.
- Familiarity with high-volume decommissioning, provisioning, and dependency management.
- Excellent documentation skills for runbooks, change records, and post-event reviews.
- Hands-on experience with JIRA and Confluence in Agile delivery environments (ideally SAFe).
- Strong understanding of change governance, incident response, SOE planning, and risk assessment.
- Awareness of network flow and application mapping, enterprise firewalls, and hybrid/on-prem/cloud infrastructures.
- Knowledge of legacy system decommissioning, enterprise backup, monitoring, and rollback tooling.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Edinburgh
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Contract Assignment: Project Manger - Change Specialist
Start Date: October 2025
Location: Leeds Or Edinburgh, UK – (Hybrid) Twice a week in the office
Duration: 6 months (initially) - Will run till mid-2027
Daily Rate: upto £500 per day
Engagement Type: Via PAYE
Working hours: Must be willing to work night shifts as there is a 24-7 change implementation
Must have the legal right to work in the UK, this role does not provide sponsorship
The Project Manager - Change Specialist will play a pivotal role in delivering high-volume, low-risk infrastructure and application changes within a regulated financial services environment. Working within a high-performing Agile delivery team governed by SAFe principles, the specialist will ensure structured, compliant, and timely execution of change events.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate and execute structured change events during defined windows (including overnight and out-of-hours activities) to ensure operational continuity and compliance.
- Produce, validate, and maintain detailed implementation plans and Sequence of Events (SOE) documentation for controlled change delivery.
- Conduct environment readiness and dependency assessments prior to execution.
- Deliver changes across legacy and target environments, including dual-running, decommissioning, and provisioning activities.
- Represent and support changes in governance forums (CCBs, CABs, technical risk committees), managing incident escalations and post-change reviews.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, operations, platform engineering, and cybersecurity teams to ensure well-governed change processes.
- Drive adoption of a standardised, scalable change delivery model using JIRA and Confluence.
- Contribute to continuous improvement efforts in change governance, documentation, and operational processes.
Required Skills & Experience:
- The Project Manager - change implementation specialist must have a minimum of 5 years experience delivering structured infrastructure or platform changes within the banking/financial services sector.
- The change implementation specialist must have strong stakeholder management and risk-based decision-making during live change events.
- Experience assessing, escalating, and supporting change-related incidents in production.
- Familiarity with high-volume decommissioning, provisioning, and dependency management.
- Excellent documentation skills for runbooks, change records, and post-event reviews.
- The change implementation specialist must have hands-on experience with JIRA and Confluence in Agile delivery environments (ideally SAFe).
- Strong understanding of change governance, incident response, SOE planning, and risk assessment.
- Awareness of network flow and application mapping, enterprise firewalls (e.g., Checkpoint, F5), and hybrid/on-prem/cloud infrastructures (HP, Dell, Oracle Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Knowledge of legacy system decommissioning, enterprise backup, monitoring, and rollback tooling.
Useful but Not Essential:
- Prior experience in UK retail or commercial banking transformation programmes.
- Exposure to cloud migration or hybrid hosting models.
- Familiarity with tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Dynatrace.
- Knowledge of ITIL or COBIT (focus on Change, Release, Incident Management).
- Awareness of automation and orchestration platforms.