IT Project Manager HMS - Data Migration - PT 4 days

Your new company You will be working for Portsmouth Homes, who are embarking on a major transformation of its Housing Management services, replacing a complex mix of ageing systems with a single, modern, cloud-hosted Housing Management System (HMS). This high-profile project will play a significant role in improving services for more than 15,000 households across the city.

Your new role The new HMS will bring together all Portsmouth Homes tenancy, property, and asset information into one secure, modern platform, improving data accuracy, strengthening compliance, and enabling smarter, real-time decision-making. It will also provide improved customer experience, giving residents access to online services and enabling staff to work more efficiently with better tools and streamlined processes.This is an exciting opportunity to join a programme with strong organisational backing, clear strategic drivers, and a wide impact across Housing, Repairs & Maintenance, Community Safety, and Corporate IT. You will help deliver a modern SaaS solution that supports regulatory standards, drives digital transformation, and creates a resilient technical foundation for future service improvement.

Key Duties

• Lead full lifecycle delivery of Portsmouth Homes Housing Management System (HMS) transformation, from mobilisation through implementation, testing, cutover, and post-go-live stabilisation.
• Provide line management and day-to-day leadership for project delivery resources, including the Project Coordinator, Data Lead, Business Analyst, Test Lead and any contracted specialists, ensuring clear accountability, prioritisation, and effective collaboration across all workstreams.
• Function as the primary bridge between aa the departments involved
• Drive strategic alignment with PCC's cloud, data protection, information governance, cyber security, and IT architectural standards.
• Lead procurement engagement where required, ensuring supplier deliverables meet contractual expectations.
• Oversee all technical and functional workstreams, including data cleansing, migration from multiple legacy systems, integrations with Repairs, Community Safety, Finance and corporate platforms, environment management, and configuration.
• Manage testing cycles end-to-end, including SIT, UAT, defect tracking, quality assurance, and readiness assessments to ensure a robust and stable solution at go-live.
• Coordinate business change and transformation activity, ensuring redesigned processes, operating models, and workflows are embedded and aligned with the Council's wider digital ambitions.
• Lead organisational readiness, including training planning and delivery, user support models, communications, impact assessments, and transition to BAU support teams, including Hand Over to Service (HOTS) activities with IT.
• Championing data quality and governance, working with data owners and analysts to establish a single authoritative dataset, improve reporting capability, and support emerging regulatory expectations.
• Ensure benefits realisation is defined, tracked, and delivered, including improvements in compliance, efficiency, customer experience, and digital adoption.

What you'll need to succeed

You will be an experienced IT Project manager with a proven history of delivering complex housing-focused IT system implementations, including large-scale data migrations from multiple legacy platforms.You will ideally have hands-on experience with major housing technologies, including NEC Housing, Microsoft Dynamics 365, or similar enterprise-grade HMS solutions.

• Strong understanding of end-to-end landlord services, including tenancy management, allocations, repairs and maintenance, rents, asset management, and associated compliance workflows.
• Practical experience working with cloud-hosted SaaS environments, including configuration, integration, security, and vendor-managed delivery models.
• Robust knowledge of project governance, including change control, risk and issue management, cutover planning, and quality assurance across complex IT environments.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across business, operational, digital, data, and technical teams, ensuring solutions align with IT governance, organisational standards, and GDPR.
• Experience leading stakeholders through significant organisational or digital change, including training, engagement, process redesign, and adoption support.

Desirable Skills:

• Expertise in data extraction, cleansing, transformation, and migration from legacy housing systems into a consolidated, modern HMS.
• Broad modular understanding across housing operations, such as Rents, Repairs, Allocations, ASB, Voids, Stock Condition, and Planned Maintenance.
• Awareness of housing-specific regulatory frameworks, such as the Housing Mediator Complaint Handling Code, Building Safety Act requirements, and consumer standards.
• Experience integrating HMS platforms with wider systems, such as document management, customer portals, workflow automation tools, and reporting solutions (e.g., Power BI, Business Objects).

What you'll get in return

£400 - 450 per day inside scope 24 month contract Hybrid - Portsmouth-based with flexibility for remote working.What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

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