Programme Manager

Programme Manager

Posted 2 days ago by Lorien

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£511 Per day
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Hybrid
Bracknell, England, United Kingdom
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Agile Methodology Application Programming Interface (API) Business Continuity Datamodel Data Modeling Dependency Management Development Environment JIRA Management Phased Implementation Scrum (Software Development) Stakeholder Engagement Stakeholder Management

Summary: The Programme Manager role focuses on leading a high-impact programme to decommission a complex legacy system for a life sciences client on a 12-month contract. The position requires managing interdependent applications while ensuring seamless migration and minimal disruption to users. The role involves extensive stakeholder engagement and governance to align technical and business goals throughout the transformation initiative. This is a hybrid position, requiring in-office attendance once a week.

Key Responsibilities:

  • End-to-end planning, delivery, and governance of the legacy decommissioning programme.
  • Map and manage complex inter-system dependencies.
  • Develop and maintain a delivery roadmap for staged decommissioning.
  • Ensure timely development and deployment of new capabilities to replace legacy components.
  • Collaborate with engineering squads, product teams, and business stakeholders.
  • Create and execute a robust onboarding and communications plan.
  • Identify, track, and mitigate delivery and continuity risks.
  • Provide regular reporting on progress, risks, and decision points.

Key Skills:

  • Proven experience leading complex IT transformation or decommissioning programmes.
  • Strong understanding of enterprise IT systems, data flows, APIs, and legacy-to-modern transitions.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership skills.
  • Skilled in dependency management across distributed systems and teams.
  • Experience creating phased implementation plans for non-disruptive change.
  • Familiarity with agile delivery methodologies and tools.
  • Experience in Life Science and/or Research and Development environment preferable.

Salary (Rate): £511 daily

City: Bracknell

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Programme Manager - Legacy Decommissioning 12 Month Contract Hybrid - once a week in the office Day Rate - £511 inside IR35

Our life sciences client is seeking a Programme Manager to join them on a 12-month contract basis. This role will lead a high-impact programme to decommission a complex legacy system comprising multiple interdependent applications. It is a major transformation initiative working across both the technology and business landscape to ensure seamless migration, system continuity, and minimal disruption to users.

Accountabilities:

  • Programme Leadership: End-to-end planning, delivery, and governance of the legacy decommissioning programme, ensuring alignment with technical and business goals.
  • Dependency Management: Map and manage complex inter-system dependencies. Develop and maintain an evolving delivery roadmap that enables staged decommissioning without impacting business continuity.
  • Technical Coordination: Ensure that new capabilities (APIs, data models, mastering systems, etc.) are developed and deployed by the appropriate teams in time to replace and retire legacy components.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with engineering squads, product teams, and business stakeholders to align delivery plans, resolve conflicts, and manage expectations.
  • Communication & Change Management: Support the platform lead to create and execute a robust onboarding and communications plan to transition multiple teams gradually and effectively onto the new systems.
  • Risk & Issue Management: Identify, track, and mitigate delivery and continuity risks across multiple teams and phases.
  • Governance & Reporting: Provide regular reporting, highlighting progress, risks, and decision points.

Experience Required:

  • Proven experience leading complex IT transformation or decommissioning programmes with multiple delivery teams
  • Strong understanding of enterprise IT systems, data flows, APIs, and legacy-to-modern system transitions
  • Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership skills
  • Skilled in dependency management across distributed systems and teams
  • Experience creating phased implementation plans to support non-disruptive change
  • Familiarity with agile delivery methodology and tools: Scaled Agile: Scrum of scrums, Big Room Planning, JIRA, Confluence
  • Experience in Life Science and/or Research and Development environment preferable, but not essential

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