Location: London / Remote hybrid
Contract: 6 months
We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to join a Financial Services organisation on a 6-month contract, leading complex infrastructure and application migration initiatives.
The successful candidate will have a strong infrastructure background and proven experience delivering large-scale technology projects within complex, enterprise environments. This is a hands‑on delivery role requiring someone who can manage multiple technical workstreams, senior stakeholders and third‑party suppliers through to successful implementation.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end infrastructure and application migration projects from planning through to implementation, cutover, hypercare and BAU transition.
- Manage complex migration activities across application discovery, dependency mapping, rationalisation, rehosting and replatforming.
- Lead datacentre exit and infrastructure transformation initiatives.
- Coordinate technical workstreams across Infrastructure, Architecture, Engineering, Security, Operations and Application teams.
- Manage project governance, RAID, dependencies, milestones, budgets and reporting.
- Manage third-party suppliers, system integrators and technology partners.
- Plan and execute complex production cutovers with minimal business disruption.
- Ensure operational readiness, resilience and successful transition into BAU.
- Provide clear communication and reporting to senior stakeholders and programme leadership.
Experience Required
- Proven experience as a Senior Project Manager delivering complex infrastructure and technology projects.
- Strong infrastructure transformation and migration experience.
- Strong understanding of virtualisation technologies, particularly VMware / vSphere , with exposure to technologies such as NSX, vSAN, Citrix, Hyper‑V or Nutanix.
- Experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructure environments , including Azure, AWS or GCP.
- Experience of datacentre migrations / datacentre exit .
- Experience managing production cutovers within 24x7 business‑critical environments .
- Strong stakeholder and supplier management skills.
- Experience working within Financial Services, Banking, Insurance or another highly regulated environment is essential .
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