Role: Technical Project Manager
Contract Length: 127 working days
Location: Liverpool, London as and when required

Key requirements:

• Supplier management - working with multiple suppliers
• Good planner, problem solving, good assurance, good around governance
• 10+ years Project management experience (infrastructure PM ideally)
• Data base migrations/Oracle on premise

Essential skills and experience:

• Proven ability to undertake detailed analysis of technical designs and provide the business with assurance of supplier designs and proposals.
• Capable of leading VFM challenges of technical proposals and manage technical interdependencies within a project/programme.
• Bridge the gap between the technical and non-technical by speaking on behalf of technical teams and facilitate relationships with indirect stakeholders.
• Experience across physical and cloud-based architectures. An understanding of operating systems and oracle products preferable.
• Understand how governance works and what governance is required by taking responsibility for the assurance of parts of a service and know what risks need to be managed.
• Good project management skills including planning and change management.
• Make decisions characterised by managed levels of risk and complexity and recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase.
• Resolve technical disputes between peers and indirect stakeholders, taking into account all views and opinions.
• Apply strategy, using patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements, challenging them and providing guidance.
• Understand trends and practices outside your team and how these will impact your work.
• See how your work fits into the broader strategy and historical context and consider the patterns and interactions on a larger scale.

Qualifications required.

• Practical experience and a proven track record of successfully managing various projects/programmes of large and medium scale and complexity using both Waterfall and Agile project methodology in cloud-based environments.
• Be qualified to PRINCE2 Practitioner Level or certified with an equivalent project management qualification.
• Have experience working with and managing key stakeholders, including external suppliers.
• Have managed teams and individuals both in delivering projects and with respect to corporate line management.
• Have the ability to deal with complexity, managing issues to resolution and making effective decisions.
• A sound knowledge and application of architecture in a government or regulated environment.
• Having led business case development, including feasibility assessment of new projects or change.