Infrastructure Project manager

Infrastructure Project manager

Bromley - hybrid

12 month contract

Inside ir35

Role Summary:

The Technology Infrastructure Project Manager (PM) is responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering complex infrastructure initiatives across the Credit Portfolio. This role manages end-to-end execution of projects spanning servers, storage, cloud, networking, data centre operations, middleware, and platform engineering. The PM ensures scope, schedule, risk, and delivery governance are strictly managed while partnering with engineering, operations, and business stakeholders.

This role requires strong delivery leadership, exceptional communication skills, and deep familiarity with enterprise infrastructure environments.

Key Responsibilities:

Project Delivery Execution

• Lead the full lifecycle delivery of technology infrastructure projects, including initiation, planning, execution, testing, deployment, and transition to operations.
• Develop and manage detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, and resource allocations.
• Oversee infrastructure builds, environment setup, cloud provisioning, migration activities, and implementation cutovers.
• Drive day to day coordination across engineering teams (cloud, network, storage, compute, database, middleware, security, etc.).

Governance, Reporting Financial Management:

• Track and report status, risks, issues, mitigations, and decisions to stakeholders and leadership.
• Maintain project documentation and compliance with PMO and CIO governance frameworks.
• Manage project budgets, forecasts, vendor spend, and financial tracking.
• Provide executive level updates, dashboards, and program communications.
• Risk, Compliance Controls
• Identify, track, and mitigate infrastructure related risks, vulnerabilities, dependencies, and constraints.
• Ensure adherence to regulatory, security, architecture, and operational standards.
• Coordinate infrastructure controls evidence, EOL tracking, and remediation activities as required.
• Stakeholder Vendor Management
• Partner with CIO teams, engineering managers, architecture, cybersecurity, operations, and business stakeholders.
• Facilitate cross team alignment and ensure timely delivery of technical tasks and approvals.
• Manage vendor engagement, SOWs, deliverables, and on time performance.
• Technical Coordination
• Understand technical designs, architecture diagrams, and platform requirements to drive project alignment.
• Coordinate testing activities (integration, performance, failover, UAT) with engineering and QA teams.
• Support change management, deployment planning, runbook preparation, and cutover/migration execution
• Strong Project Management Skills
• Agile Scrum Master Skills
• Waterfall Delivery Methods
• MS Project, MS Excel and MS Power Point
• Educational background and experience in project management or business management or associated area
• Ability to work with others and manage disparate teams globally
• Ability to manage the successful execution of technical solutions whether by a single team or multiple teams
• A proven track record in a similar role
• Good interpersonal skills; positive attitude; team player; flexible
• Must be able to face off to business and technology leaders
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to lead meetings, follow-up, negotiate and resolve ambiguity
• Keen attention to detail and strong sense of ownership and accountability for work
• Motivated to work closely and cooperatively with other team members of varying levels of seniority and experience
• Must be a self-starter and have the ability to work with little to no supervision
• Experience delivering large-scale, complex technology projects within enterprise environments
• Hands-on Jira expertise for tracking, reporting, and managing technical workstreams
• Strong passion for technology, infrastructure, and banking operations
• Ability to perform extensive data analysis and create clear, executive-quality presentations
• Background in infrastructure delivery projects, including servers, storage, network, cloud, and related platforms
• Managing matrix resources
• Jira Expertise

If you believe you have the experience required, please apply with your CV now for instant consideration!

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