Role Title: Infrastructure Project Manager
Duration: contract to run until 30/11/2026
Rate: up to £455.40 p/d Umbrellainside IR35
Our client is seeking experienced Infrastructure Project Managers to support a growing portfolio of strategic platform migration initiatives within the iWPB technology estate. This role requires proven delivery experience in banking or financial services environments, with a strong background in end‑to‑end infrastructure, data, and network migration projects.
The successful candidate will take full accountability for the planning and delivery of complex platform transitions, ensuring compliance with Our client’s governance, risk, and change control standards while driving successful outcomes across technical and business stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead end‑to‑end delivery of infrastructure and platform migration projects, from initiation through to transition and handover into BAU.
- Own and manage platform, data, and network migration activities, ensuring minimal disruption to live services.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, milestones, RAID logs, and dependency tracking aligned to defined timescales.
- Ensure strict adherence to Our client’s change, risk, and governance frameworks, including documentation, approvals, and audit readiness.
- Coordinate and manage cross‑functional technical teams, including infrastructure, network, security, applications, and third‑party vendors.
- Engage confidently with senior stakeholders, providing clear reporting on progress, risks, issues, and delivery outcomes.
- Drive alignment between business objectives and technical delivery, translating complex technical concepts into business‑relevant language.
- Proactively identify and manage delivery risks, removing blockers and ensuring delivery remains on track.
- Ensure all migrations are delivered to agreed scope, quality, budget, and timelines.
- Support continuous improvement across delivery practices and contribute to wider transformation objectives within iWPB Technology.
Required Experience & Skills:
- Proven experience as an Infrastructure Delivery / Project Manager within banking or financial services.
- Strong background delivering platform migration projects, including at least two of the following:
- Infrastructure migrations
- Data migrations
- Network or connectivity migrations
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex technical change in regulated environments.
- Strong understanding of change control, risk management, and governance processes.
- Experience working with large, enterprise‑scale technology estates.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including experience engaging at senior leadership level.
- Track record of delivering projects to defined deadlines and timescales.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams concurrently.
- Experience with OpenShift Virtualization or container‑based platforms.
- Exposure to cloud or hybrid cloud environments.
- Familiarity with Our client or similar Tier 1 banking environments.
- Relevant certifications (e.g. PRINCE2, PMP, Agile PM, or equivalent).
Personal Attributes:
- Accountable and delivery‑focused with a strong sense of ownership.
- Confident, credible, and calm under pressure.
- Structured and detail‑oriented, with the ability to see the bigger picture.
- Comfortable challenging and influencing across technical and non‑technical teams.
- Proactive problem‑solver with a strong risk mindset.
All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!
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