Program Manager
Posted Today by Gravitas Recruitment Group (Global) Ltd
£700 Per day
Outside
Remote
United Kingdom
Summary: The Programme Manager role involves leading a 6-month contract focused on a large-scale enterprise transition programme for a major client, specifically transitioning workloads from a data centre to a managed mainframe platform. The position requires coordination of multiple workstreams and acting as the primary liaison between the consultancy, delivery teams, and the client. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in infrastructure transformation and stakeholder management. This role is fully remote and classified as outside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and coordinate multiple workstreams across a complex data centre exit and mainframe transition programme.
- Act as the key interface between the consultancy, client stakeholders, and technical delivery teams.
- Manage programme governance, reporting, dependencies, risks, and delivery oversight.
Key Skills:
- Proven experience delivering complex infrastructure transformation or hosting transition programmes.
- Strong background in data centre exit, estate consolidation, or managed services transition programmes.
- Experience working within mainframe, legacy, or core systems environments.
- Exposure to IBM Z, z/OS, hosted mainframe services, or hybrid infrastructure environments is highly desirable.
- Strong stakeholder management and programme governance experience.
- Experience managing budgets, RAID, dependencies, and SLA-driven delivery.
- Experience working with enterprise consultancies or managed service providers.
Salary (Rate): £700 per day
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Programme Manager 6 Month Contract | Outside IR35 | Remote (UK Only) | £700 per day
We’re supporting a global consultancy delivering a large-scale enterprise transition programme for a major end client. The programme is focused on transitioning critical workloads and services from an existing data centre environment into a managed mainframe and hosted services platform as part of a wider data centre exit initiative.
We’re looking for an experienced Programme Manager to coordinate multiple workstreams across the programme, acting as the key interface between the consultancy, delivery teams and the end client.
Experience Required
- Proven experience delivering complex infrastructure transformation or hosting transition programmes
- Strong background in data centre exit, estate consolidation or managed services transition programmes
- Experience working within mainframe, legacy or core systems environments
- Exposure to IBM Z, z/OS, hosted mainframe services or hybrid infrastructure environments is highly desirable
- Strong stakeholder management and programme governance experience
- Experience managing budgets, RAID, dependencies and SLA-driven delivery
- Experience working with enterprise consultancies or managed service providers
The Role
- Lead and coordinate multiple workstreams across a complex data centre exit and mainframe transition programme
- Act as the key interface between the consultancy, client stakeholders and technical delivery teams
- Manage programme governance, reporting, dependencies, risks and delivery oversight
Contract Details
- 6 Month Initial Contract
- Outside IR35
- Fully Remote (UK Only)