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Your new role
We’re looking for an experienced IT Programme Manager to lead a major technology integration programme following a business acquisition.
This is a senior, business-critical programme centred around a large-scale Microsoft 365 tenant migration, alongside the wider integration of users, applications, devices, data, identity, infrastructure and security services.
You’ll take ownership of the programme from discovery and design through build, testing, migration, cutover, hypercare and operational handover, coordinating multiple Project Managers, technical workstreams, suppliers and senior stakeholders.
You’ll be responsible for:
- Leading the end-to-end acquisition and technology integration programme
- Owning a complex Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migration
- Managing multiple projects and Project Managers against an integrated programme plan
- Coordinating workstreams across M365, identity, applications, data, infrastructure, devices and security
- Managing dependencies, critical paths, RAID and change control
- Overseeing migration rehearsals, pilots, cutover, hypercare and transition into BAU
- Providing programme governance and reporting into CTO, Programme Director and SteerCo-level stakeholders
- Managing multi-million-pound budgets, forecasts and business cases
- Managing third-party suppliers and systems integrators
- Ensuring business and technical readiness while minimising disruption during migration
What we’re looking for
You'll be an established Programme Manager with demonstrable experience of:
Large-scale Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migrations
Technology integration following an acquisition or merger
Leading complex enterprise programmes from discovery through to cutover and BAU
Managing multiple Project Managers and interconnected technical workstreams
Complex migration and cutover planning
Executive-level stakeholder and SteerCo management
RAID, dependencies, critical path and programme governance
Managing significant programme budgets and forecasts
Third-party supplier / systems integrator management
Working within large, complex and matrixed organisations
Experience
Experience across M365, Entra ID/Azure AD, Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, identity, security, data and application migrations would be particularly relevant.
MSP, PRINCE2, Agile or ITIL qualifications would be advantageous, although proven delivery experience is more important.
This would suit someone who can confidently operate between the boardroom and the delivery team.
You’ll need to communicate effectively with CTO-level stakeholders while also being comfortable challenging technical teams, suppliers and Project Managers around milestones, dependencies, risks and delivery.
If you’ve previously led a large-scale M365 tenant migration as part of an acquisition or business integration, I’d be keen to hear from you.
What you'll get in return: c£900 per day (Inside IR35)