Technology Management Consultant

TECHNOLOGY lifecycle management consultant Glasgow Hybrid 12 Month Contract Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) Provides a reliable, secure and agile technical platform for Morgan Stanley’s business applications and operations. ETS enables business operations and delivers collaboration and productivity tools to our internal and external clients. ETS provides production management, quality assurance, and end user services for Institutional Securities and Support Services and delivers first-line defenses to manage the IT risks to the Firm, address the evolving cyber threat landscape, and meet regulatory expectations. ETS also works with Investment Banking to manage the Firm’s strategic relationships with the technology community, including venture capitalists, established technology companies, and start-ups.

What will you be doing? Join the lifecycle management team, interfacing with execution teams, hygiene teams and key stakeholders Work to enhance the management of technology assets across the department and help ensure timely exit of products approaching end of life (EOL) Coordinate activities across multiple teams to support integrated and consistent processes Identify data quality issues and work with technical colleagues to address and resolve Maintain accurate tracking of contracts and inventory attributes of the core technology infrastructure Maintain and report on EOL plans, status and progress Track progress against the firm’s efforts to establish an up to date an accurate firm wide inventory of assets using firms’ tools

Skills that will help you in the role: Project management experience on large-scale IT projects Experience and knowledge of IT Infrastructure fundamentals Experience of creating and documenting process Excellent communication skills and experience working with a global team Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail Skilled and experienced in MS Excel and MS PowerPoint Methodical and structured approach to problem solving Team player Proven ability to collaborate, take direction but also a self-starter who is motivated to work autonomously and progress workload at scale Ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority Some flexibility with work timings to collaborate with teams in multiple time zones You might also have: Exposure to program management through standard tools such as JIRA, contemporary development management with Agile, KanBan, etc.