Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager – IT Infrastructure & Resilience Programme

Location: Remote – Occasional travel to customer site

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead delivery across a multi-year IT resilience and modernisation programme. The role will coordinate a range of technical workstreams focused on improving disaster recovery, business continuity, technical debt remediation, and platform modernisation across a large enterprise IT estate.

Working within a consulting-led delivery model, the Project Manager will oversee multidisciplinary technical teams delivering infrastructure upgrades, cloud migration initiatives, legacy system retirement, and resilience improvements across both core IT services and business-critical applications.

This role requires strong experience managing complex technical programmes, coordinating engineers, architects, and stakeholders to deliver structured outcomes while maintaining governance, risk management, and delivery momentum.

Key Responsibilities

Programme Delivery

• Manage the end-to-end delivery of multiple technical workstreams across the programme.
• Coordinate technical teams including architects, engineers, analysts, and specialists.
• Maintain delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, and resource allocation across workstreams.
• Ensure workstreams progress in line with programme priorities and timelines.

Governance & Reporting

• Establish and maintain programme governance including RAID logs, reporting packs, and delivery dashboards.
• Provide regular progress updates to senior stakeholders and programme sponsors.
• Track risks, issues, and dependencies, ensuring mitigation plans are implemented.
• Ensure alignment with internal governance processes including design reviews, change management, and service transition.

Stakeholder & Vendor Management

• Coordinate engagement between internal IT teams, business stakeholders, and third-party vendors.
• Facilitate workshops, delivery checkpoints, and technical decision-making forums.
• Ensure required approvals, technical inputs, and testing activities are secured to support delivery timelines.

Technical Delivery Coordination

• Oversee the delivery of initiatives including:
• Technical debt remediation across infrastructure platforms
• Migration of legacy applications to modern platforms
• Cloud platform and Microsoft 365 improvements
• Disaster recovery and business continuity enhancements
• Infrastructure upgrades and system modernisation
• Support the coordination of testing, migration planning, and operational handover activities.

Programme Operations

• Manage delivery schedules, documentation, and project artefacts.
• Support procurement processes where hardware, software, licensing, or external services are required.
• Ensure completed work is documented and transitioned into operational support teams.

Required Experience

• Proven experience delivering complex IT infrastructure or cloud transformation programmes.
• Strong background managing projects involving platform upgrades, system migrations, or infrastructure modernisation.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary technical teams including architects, engineers, and analysts

Desirable Experience

• Experience delivering disaster recovery or business continuity initiatives.
• Exposure to technical debt remediation or legacy system modernisation programmes.
• Experience coordinating cloud migration or Microsoft 365 transformation projects.
• Background working in large or complex enterprise IT environments.
• Consulting or multi-client delivery experience.

Skills & Attributes

• Strong leadership and organisational skills.
• Excellent stakeholder communication and coordination abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changing programme needs.
• Structured and methodical approach to delivery governance.

Certifications (Desirable)

• PRINCE2, PMP, or equivalent project management certification
• Agile or hybrid delivery methodologies
• ITIL or service management frameworks