Technical Project Manager - Contract
Job description
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of workload migration from the mainframe to AWS.
- Own project planning, milestones, dependencies, risks and delivery governance.
- Coordinate engineering, infrastructure, cloud and stakeholder teams throughout the migration.
- Use your knowledge of Rocket Software and mainframe technologies to understand technical requirements and facilitate effective technical discussions.
- Translate between technical teams and business/project stakeholders, ensuring risks and dependencies are clearly understood.
- Work with engineering teams to define the migration approach, sequencing and acceptance criteria.
- Oversee migration testing, validation and readiness activities.
- Identify and proactively resolve technical and delivery blockers.
- Ensure the migrated workload meets agreed functional, performance and operational requirements.
- Provide clear reporting on project progress, risks and outcomes.
Essential Experience
- Strong experience as a Technical Project Manager, Technical Delivery Manager or Migration Lead.
- Previous experience delivering technically complex migration or modernisation projects.
- Knowledge of Rocket Software technologies and their use within mainframe environments.
- A good understanding of mainframe architecture and workloads.
- Experience working with AWS and cloud migration programmes.
- The technical credibility to work closely with engineers, architects and infrastructure specialists.
- Strong understanding of testing, migration planning, dependencies and technical risk management.
- Experience coordinating multiple technical teams against tight delivery timescales.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- An open and genuine communicator
- Able to take responsibility for your actions
- Always learning and wanting to improve
- Takes responsibility for own development
- Love what you do
- Value and support your team
- Embrace who you are
- Open minded and willing to explore new ideas
As a Leighton employee you can look forward to:
- A competitive salary this will be dependent on experience.
- A contributory pension scheme
- Private healthcare
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and the opportunity to buy or sell holiday
- A flexible approach to working hours
- Continuous personal development, career path and training
- And more....
Skills mentioned
For as long as we can remember (and we’ve been around for over 32 years), organisations have struggled to deliver digital change. Technology continues to change. User expectations continue to rise. Getting the right resource, skills and expertise to deliver on time, on budget and to the highest quality is a real challenge. That’s where we come in. We are a software development agency that accelerates digital change by bringing the right blend of people and technology together to deliver successful software applications. Having realised the potential of the internet in 1992, brothers Paul and Gerrard Callaghan founded Leighton as an internet services business. Our early days were marked by our offerings in design, consultancy, and domain name registration. As the years went by, we evolved into a prominent internet publisher providing a suite of internet and multimedia services. We take pride in our commitment to innovation and excellence, building bespoke applications and establishing long-term partnerships with our clients.
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