Senior Project Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Manage complex technology projects and workstreams from initiation through to implementation.
• Deliver software, application, cloud and data-migration initiatives.
• Establish and maintain robust project governance, plans, RAID logs, dependencies and change controls.
• Manage distributed delivery teams, third-party suppliers and consultancy partners.
• Own project budgets, forecasting, actuals, resource costs and supplier spend.
• Identify opportunities to improve resource utilisation and control delivery costs.
• Provide clear financial and delivery reporting to senior stakeholders.
• Coordinate testing, cutover, implementation and operational readiness.
• Ensure projects deliver against agreed scope, timescales, cost and quality expectations.

Essential Experience

• Extensive experience as a Senior Project Manager, Technical Project Manager or Delivery Manager.
• A strong background working for a consultancy, outsourcing provider, systems integrator or managed-service organisation.
• Proven software or application delivery experience.
• Cloud delivery or migration experience, ideally involving Azure or AWS.
• Experience delivering data, application, infrastructure or customer migration programmes.
• Strong project financial-management experience, including budget ownership, forecasting, actuals, resource costs and cost control.
• Experience managing suppliers, offshore teams and distributed delivery resources.
• Strong governance, RAID, dependency and formal change-control experience.
• Excellent stakeholder-management and communication skills.

Desirable Experience

• Banking or wider financial-services experience.
• Delivery within a highly regulated environment.
• Large-scale customer or account migration.
• Cutover, service transition and operational-readiness experience.
• Experience managing commercial agreements, statements of work and supplier performance.

This is a fully remote contract, although occasional travel may be required for key programme meetings.