Infrastructure Project Manager
Infrastructure Project Manager – Investment Banking - £80K + Benefits & Bonus Overview: A Global Investment Bank is seeking an Assistant Vice President, IT Infrastructure Project Manager to deliver Business-as-Usual infrastructure change and service improvement initiatives across its Digital Engineering Services & Solutions function. The role focuses on enhancing infrastructure operations, improving service quality, and ensuring controlled, efficient delivery within the Corporate Technology division.Role & Responsibilities:
- Lead BAU infrastructure change and service improvement projects across servers, networks, cloud, and platform services.
- Maintain and manage the BAU change pipeline, ensuring accurate forecasting, workload visibility, and alignment to capacity.
- Work with Infrastructure Architects, Product Owners, and Service Owners to scope requirements and baseline delivery plans.
- Produce analysis, business cases, and clear recommendations based on technical and operational considerations.
- Ensure all infrastructure changes meet compliance, risk, and governance standards (SOX, operational resilience, third-party risk).
- Oversee technical resource planning, service transition, operational readiness, and smooth project closure.
- Drive governance through RAID management, milestone tracking, and stakeholder reporting.
- Coordinate supplier onboarding, contract/NDA/SOW management, and third-party governance with Procurement and Legal.
- Proven experience delivering IT Infrastructure and Service Operations BAU projects.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure environments (servers, networks, cloud, platforms).
- Delivery experience across SDLC/PDLC using both agile and waterfall.
- Solid governance skills: budgeting, forecasting, RAID management, reporting.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency in MS Project, MS Office, Jira, Confluence.
- Project management certifications (Prince2, PMI, APMP) desirable.
- Financial services experience advantageous.
- Competitive salary up to £80K and comprehensive benefits.
- Performance related bonus.
- Hybrid – 3 days per week in London.
- Private medical.
- Excellent pension (up to 12%).
- Additional excellent lifestyle, wealth and wellbeing benefits.