Overview
This role is for a Senior Project Manager on a 6-month contract focused on leading large-scale infrastructure and migration projects for a major enterprise client's data centre transformation program. The contractor will collaborate with multiple technical workstreams and stakeholders while ensuring project governance and successful delivery in a complex Managed Services environment. This position is available remotely within the UK and comes with a strong likelihood of extension.
Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of large-scale infrastructure and migration projects.
- Coordinate multiple technical workstreams across complex enterprise environments.
- Manage project governance, including RAID logs, risks, issues, dependencies, and executive reporting.
- Work closely with senior client stakeholders, delivery teams, and third-party suppliers.
- Manage project budgets, financials, timelines, and resource planning.
- Ensure successful delivery of infrastructure transition and migration activities within agreed scope and service levels.
- Provide leadership across cross-functional teams throughout the full project lifecycle.
Requirements
- Proven experience delivering large-scale infrastructure and data centre migration projects.
- Experience delivering projects involving mainframe environments.
- Previous experience working within a Managed Services Provider (MSP) or IT Outsourcing organisation.
- Strong experience managing project governance, financials, RAID, reporting, and executive communications.
- Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure, hosting environments, and service transition.
- Highly desirable: Experience delivering data centre exit, hosting transition, or infrastructure transformation programmes.
- Prince2, PMP, or equivalent Project Management certification is required.
- ITIL or ITSM certification is preferred.