Programme Manager - Cloud Infrastructure
Posted Today by NP Group
£800 Per day
Outside
Remote
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Programme Manager (Cloud Infrastructure) involves leading a major cloud infrastructure program with a focus on service provider and global financial experience. The position requires ownership of end-to-end delivery, stakeholder management, and governance, ensuring alignment with PMO standards. The candidate must demonstrate senior program leadership capabilities and manage financial and commercial controls effectively. This is a contract position with remote working arrangements, requiring occasional on-site meetings in the UK.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end delivery of a cloud infrastructure and application migration program.
- Manage scope, roadmap, and delivery cadence using standardized PMO artefacts.
- Lead governance, risk, and stakeholder engagement across the cloud operating model.
- Demonstrate senior program leadership capability consistent with PMO standards.
- Apply PMO financial and commercial controls to cloud programs.
- Overall management of supplier issues, risks, and opportunity identification.
- Document all key changes and manage all project meetings.
- Coordinate consulting activities and manage change control board meetings.
- Ensure financial accuracy, transparency, and alignment to cloud transformation milestones.
Key Skills:
- In-depth expertise in Cloud Infrastructure Build and workload Migration Programme Management.
- Strong stakeholder management and governance skills.
- Excellent execution command and control capabilities.
- 10+ years of experience in delivering complex technology transformations.
- Strong financial and contract management skills.
- Proficiency with PM tooling (PMP preferred).
- Excellent executive communication skills.
Salary (Rate): £800.00/daily
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Contract: Programme Manager (Cloud Infrastructure)
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 6 months
Rate: £750- 800 a day (Outside IR35 determination)
Location: Remote. May require an occasional on-site meetings in UK
Reference: 20336
Immediate contract for a Senior Programme Manager with in-depth expertise of delivering a major Cloud Infrastructure Programme
Must have - Service Provider/Global Fi experience in Cloud Infrastructure Build and workload Migration Programme Management
Key strengths: Stakeholder Management and Governance, Execution Command and Control
Key Scope: Own end?to?end delivery of a cloud infrastructure and application migration program within a defined cloud transformation operating model , acting as the single point of accountability for scope, schedule, cost, risk, and outcomes across all migration and platform workstreams, in line with PMO governance standards
Manages scope, roadmap, and delivery cadence using standardized PMO artefacts (e.g. integrated plans, migration waves, dependency maps, executive dashboards), providing clear leadership?level visibility of cloud readiness, migration progress, and risks.
Leads governance, risk, and stakeholder engagement across the cloud operating model, proactively managing risks related to security, resilience, performance, and cutover, and ensuring escalations follow defined PMO and transformation governance forums.
Demonstrates senior program leadership capability consistent with PMO standards, typically with 10+ years' experience delivering complex technology transformations, strong financial and contract management skills, excellent executive communication, and proficiency with PM tooling (PMP preferred).
Applies PMO financial and commercial controls to cloud programs, including budgeting, forecasting, change control, and SOW governance, ensuring financial accuracy, transparency, and alignment to agreed cloud transformation milestones and benefits realization.
Overall management of the supplier issues, risks, and opportunity identification
Documenting all key changes
Management of all project meetings
Management of all technical and oversight meetings between Telefonica and the suppliers
Management of all agreed artifacts and acceptance criteria
Management and reporting of material entering and leaving
Management of all reviews and meeting
Progress meeting
Technical interchange meetings
Coordinating Consulting Activities
Change control board meetings
Financial understand of budget and cost
Delivery and shipping dates of hardware
Completion of HLD and LLD
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