Senior Project Manager – Data Center & Cloud Delivery

Fantastic opportunity to join a thriving London Market Insurance firm, initial 12 month contract.

Project Manager with strong expertise in handling large application migrations projects.

• Technical expertise in the area IT infrastructure and cloud platforms.
• Communication to application teams worldwide.
• Schedule workshops with application owners
• Planning of migration plan for applications globally.
• Managing a multi-vendor team.
• Implement tooling required for discovery, analysis, planning & migrations
• Agile delivery using Azure DevOps expected, however waterfall planning skills also necessary from time to time.

Required working experience & education

• At least 7+ of experience in successfully managing the delivering of multiple large IT projects within a technically complex and dynamic environment, ideally in a global Finance/Insurance or regulated industry
• Managed global rollouts impacting companywide users
• Working knowledge of Project/Programme Management, e.g., Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), Prince2 and agile project management tools and methodologies

Required Skills and qualifications

Technical Must have

• Experience leading Infrastructure & Operations projects, with good oversight of Technologies across the Networks, Workplace and Data Centres disciplines.
• Able to demonstrate strong management skills including project management, financial management, change management and facilitation.
• Demonstrable experience in setting up and driving successful global projects
• Demonstrated strong personal organizational skills and ability to coordinate the efforts of others globally in the successful delivery of projects.
• Excellent communication skills, strong experience in managing the diverging interests of various stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
• Proven ability to create meaningful reports and summarise project health status for stakeholder presentations.
• Proven ability to manage and track programme costs and budgets to agreed baselines.
• Strong attention to detail, with the ability to maintain high standards of hygiene across complex programs and ensure compliance with stringent governance requirements.
• Ability to drive a mixture of functional and geographic workstreams and coordinate step change delivery to the business in a unified way.
• Consulting and collaborative working style creating a culture of accountability and sharing.
• A self-motivated individual able to work with varying organisational and geographic styles to the end goal of unifying and standardising the delivery culture and capability.
• Fluent spoken and written English.
• Willingness to travel internationally.
• Proficiency in project management methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid approaches.

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