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Infrastructure Project Manager - Financial Services (contract)
A Financial Services Organisation based in the City of London is currently seeking an Infrastructure Project Manager to deliver business-critical complex infrastructure projects. This person will be adept to liaise with all levels of IT management to deliver both technical and procedural change.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for Project Managing the upgrade of Infrastructure across the organisation, according to time and budget.
- Liaise with stakeholders at different levels to identify the infrastructure requirements of projects, and be able to deliver these using formalised processes.
- Collaborate with third party suppliers to ensure the successful delivery of projects
- Oversee the creation of delivery costs and be able to collaborate with Finance to define accurate and measurable cost models.
- Be able to work with a variety of resources to plan analysis work and highlight any risks.
- Work with the technical owners and business owners to define acceptance criteria
- Ensure efficient production handover and operational acceptance of infrastructure projects
- Be able to report on the project progress against outstanding milestones, status, resource requirements, issues, risks and dependencies
- Ensure appropriate governance of projects
Skills:
- A history of project management experience in a financial services organisation or experience in delivering projects with budgets exceeding >$1m
- Infrastructure Project management within a company that has established ITIL processes.
- End to end experience of the project lifecycle.
- Strong analytical and conceptual skills and the ability to create original concepts on projects.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with all levels of staff across both technical and non-technical contexts.
This is a contract position based in London, operating on a hybrid work set-up of 3 days per week in the office. This is initially a 6-month contract.
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