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Salary- Salary Range: GBP90,000 - GBP95,000 (depending on candidate experience)
- Job Type: Contract
- Office Location: London
- Hybrid Model: 1 day per week in office, remaining days remote
Our client, an IT services provider is seeking an experienced Programme Manager with strong delivery experience from a leadership and governance perspective. The ideal candidate will be capable of dealing and reporting to C-level stakeholders. The end client will be delivering a Developer solution across multiple platforms, therefore a strong understanding of developer tooling is essential.
Role Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the rollout of VDIs and tooling for developers
- Drive delivery of a secure platform incorporating privileged management
- Delivering virtual tools and products as a unified solution onto a cloud-first VDI environment, resulting in the migration of the developer community onto a consolidated and evergreen operating system.
Skills Required:
- A strong understanding of developer tooling. (AWS, Linux, etc - containerized development)
- Experience working with developer tooling as well as containerization, and identity and access management.
- Leadership and Governance experience
- Strong communication and leadership skills (able to deal with stakeholders in complex governance structures)
- Well presented, articulate, confident and professional in approach as well as having a good sense of humour.
- Professional services business acumen with commercial acumen, including having developed and championed business cases for large programmes.
- Previous experience working for a consulting services company, services company or as a supplier organisation, or systems integrator.
- Demonstrable track record of successfully managing, leading/motivating programme & project teams, including direct, indirect reports and suppliers
- Track record of establishing governance structures to ensure programmes success
- Ability to delegate, prioritise and get involved at a detailed level when required
- Full life cycle project management experience from project initiation to project closure with the ability to adapt to the customer's chosen methodology and standards.
- Strong task and resource planning in a volatile Matrix management environment.
- Strong risk and issue management skills with an eye on avoiding programme issues through awareness, planning and forward thinking.
- Demonstrable understanding of project finances and budget management.
- Solid estimating skills with the ability to contribute to project requirements assessment, estimating and planning.
- Skilled in Microsoft applications including Excel, Word, SharePoint and Project.
Qualifications:
- PRINCE2 certified
- MSP certified or equivalent required
Experience
Minimum of 7 years' experience as a Project Manager in particular types of projects; eg DC migration.
Minimum 2 years as Programme Manager. Used to working on large scale programmes, multi-million GBP budgets
To be considered, please ensure you complete your application on the Computappoint website.
Services offered by Computappoint Limited are those of an Employment Business and/or Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy
