Infrastructure Project Manager (Financial Services)

Job Description

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.