Platform Migration Program Manager
Posted 4 days ago by Vallum Associates
£70 Per hour
Outside
Hybrid
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Platform Migration Program Manager role in Sheffield involves leading a significant migration program from on-premises to cloud infrastructure. The position requires extensive stakeholder management, coordination of various streams, and detailed planning for a smooth transition. The manager will engage with senior stakeholders and vendor partners to ensure alignment and successful delivery of the program. This role demands strong leadership and communication skills to navigate complex issues and drive transformation effectively.
Key Responsibilities:
- Delivery of the programme, ensuring smooth transition of all users to new structure
- Development of business cases and benefit validation to support transformation
- Maintenance of regular engagement with senior stakeholders at C-suite and director level
- Coordination with vendor and vendor partners to ensure all programme plans are aligned
- Management of a matrix organisation
- Management of risks, issues and dependencies, ensuring senior stakeholders are informed / updated where appropriate
Key Skills:
- Significant experience of large data migration programmes, including on-prem and cloud infrastructure transitions
- Significant experience of working with vendor partners
- Strong emotional intelligence and leadership
- Proven experience of large-scale transformation
- Knowledge of portfolio management principles and practices
- Excellent communication/presentation skills
- Proven ability to articulate complex issues concisely, suitable for all levels across the HSBC group
- Pro-active problem solving skills, able to work to under pressure to challenging timescales and deliver at pace
- Strong stakeholder management capability and excellent communication at all levels of seniority
- Detailed understanding of financial & strategy planning
- Experience of working in a diverse global team
- Flexible and adaptable to changing activities, schedules, workloads and priorities
- Proven leadership & strong teamwork skills, seeking to influence within and outside of the team
- Experience of continuous improvement
Salary (Rate): £70.00/hr
City: Sheffield
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Job Title: Platform Migration Program Manager
Location: Sheffield, Hybrid- UK (3 days/week Onsite)
Duration: 6months+
Overview
The aim of this role is to own and drive the implementation of a significant platform migration program from on-prem to cloud. The role will require extensive stakeholder management at all levels, coordination of a number of different streams, regular liaison with the 3rd party owner of the software being migrated, and their implementation partners, as well as detailed planning and delivery of all steps of the migration.
Responsibilities:
- Delivery of the programme, ensuring smooth transition of all users to new structure
- Development of business cases and benefit validation to support transformation
- Maintenance of regular engagement with senior stakeholders at C-suite and director level
- Coordination with vendor and vendor partners to ensure all programme plans are aligned
- Management of a matrix organisation
- Management of risks, issues and dependencies, ensuring senior stakeholders are informed / updated where appropriate
Essential Skillset/Experience:
- Significant experience of large data migration programmes, including on-prem and cloud infrastructure transitions
- Significant experience of working with vendor partners
- Strong emotional intelligence and leadership
- Proven experience of large-scale transformation
- Knowledge of portfolio management principles and practices
- Excellent communication/presentation skills
- Proven ability to articulate complex issues concisely, suitable for all levels across the HSBC group
- Pro-active problem solving skills, able to work to under pressure to challenging timescales and deliver at pace
- Strong stakeholder management capability and excellent communication at all levels of seniority
- Detailed understanding of financial & strategy planning
- Experience of working in a diverse global team
- Flexible and adaptable to changing activities, schedules, workloads and priorities that are potentially highly restricted in nature, unpredictable, wide ranging, complex and time sensitive requires the simultaneous handling of a broad range of issues
- Proven leadership & strong teamwork skills, seeking to influence within and outside of the team and successfully encourage teams to work together
- Experience of continuous improvement
Kind Regards -- Priyanka Sharma Senior Delivery Consultant Office: 02033759240 Email: psharma@vallumassociates.com