Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity available with a leading global publishing organisation. They are currently looking for an experienced Project Manager to support two strategic technology initiatives, covering platform modernisation and enterprise-wide design system transformation.
This is an excellent opportunity to work across technology, engineering, architecture, product and design teams, driving delivery across complex projects with significant business impact.
Job Responsibilities/Objectives
You will be responsible for managing delivery across two concurrent technology projects, ensuring clear planning, effective governance and strong coordination between technical and business stakeholders.
- Project Planning & Governance: Own and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, delivery schedules, governance activities and senior stakeholder reporting across both projects, maintaining an agreed 50/50 allocation of time.
- Technology Modernisation: Coordinate delivery across technical workstreams involving service and platform replacements, migration towards AWS EKS and microservices, and data warehouse migration to Snowflake.
- Design System Transformation: Manage delivery plans for component consolidation and product migrations, coordinating engineering, product and design teams through implementation, stabilisation and Legacy system retirement.
- Risk & Dependency Management: Identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions and cross-team dependencies, escalating blockers early and providing practical recommendations to support decision-making.
- Stakeholder & Resource Management: Work closely with technical and business stakeholders to align priorities, monitor progress, manage resources and forecasts, and communicate delivery confidence, changes and trade-offs.
- Release & Transition Readiness: Coordinate testing, release planning, operational readiness and adoption activities to ensure changes are successfully implemented and supported.
Required Skills/Experience: The ideal candidate will have the following:
- Proven experience as a Project Manager delivering complex technology, digital transformation or platform modernisation projects from planning through to implementation and transition.
- Strong project management and governance experience, including integrated planning, milestone tracking, risk and issue management, dependency mapping and senior-level reporting.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to coordinate teams across engineering, architecture, product, design and business functions.
- Practical experience working with Agile, Lean or iterative delivery methodologies and tools such as Jira, Confluence or Microsoft Project.
- Experience managing multiple workstreams, competing priorities, delivery schedules, resources and forecasts within a complex technology environment.
- A proactive, delivery-focused approach, with the ability to resolve blockers, facilitate decisions and maintain momentum across interdependent projects.
Desirable Skills/Experience: Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client:
- Experience with cloud platform modernisation, microservices or infrastructure transformation, ideally involving AWS EKS.
- Experience with data warehouse migration or modernisation, particularly Snowflake.
- Exposure to design systems, component libraries, design system consolidation or large-scale product migration programmes.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent projects within an enterprise technology or shared services environment.
- Background in publishing, research, information services or other data-rich organisations.
- Experience with Legacy system decommissioning, platform stabilisation, release readiness and operational handover.
Benefits & Perks: The company offers standard corporate benefits, including:
- Opportunity to contribute to strategic technology transformation initiatives within a globally recognised organisation.
- Exposure to cloud modernisation, data migration and enterprise design system delivery.
- Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams across technology, engineering, product and design.
- A varied contract role combining technical project delivery with business-wide transformation.