Project Manager - SC Cleared

A government organisation is recruiting for an experienced Project Manager to lead a major data platform project. You'll take the project from start to finish, keeping it on time, on budget and to a high standard. You'll work with teams across the business, technology and suppliers, and report progress to senior leaders.

Day to day duties

• Manage the project's people, plans and budget day to day
• Make timely decisions and raise issues early when needed
• Manage risks, issues, changes and links with other projects
• Keep the project team, suppliers and stakeholders informed
• Make sure the finished solution meets all requirements and standards
• Hand the solution over smoothly into everyday use
• Review the project at the end and share lessons learned
• Ensure resolution of problems relating to project delivery against business need e.g overcoming weaknesses in the user requirement, the specification, or acceptance criteria.
• Identify, obtain support and get buy in for the management of critical issues, planning and control of the project and its dependencies
• Managing stakeholders to achieve this includes the ExCo, business managers, technical design and assurance functions, a difficult task which requires significant analytical capability, interpersonal skills, etc
• Resolving technical, commercial and contractual issues with external stakeholders and industry which could prevent or limit delivery of the project.
• Resolving change management issues which could prevent or limit success of the business solution being delivered.
• Ensuring that transition and in-service plans have the commitment of all stakeholders and that operational performance parameters (eg resources, system/process monitoring and performance metrics) are all met

Key skills and experience

• A strong track record of managing complex data platform or data transformation projects, from start-up through to delivery and handover
• Experience of putting data governance into practice, turning requirements into clear plans, roles, controls and ways of working
• Hands-on experience of delivering data platforms, with a good understanding of modern cloud data concepts (data engineering, integration, security and platform governance)
• Proven ability to set up a project approach, plan, governance and assurance, and to manage scope, schedule, cost, resources, risks, issues and dependencies
• Strong leadership and communication skills, with experience working with business, data, technology, security, suppliers and senior decision-makers
• The ability to get up to speed quickly in a complex environment and keep things moving with little onboarding
• A project management qualification such as APM, PRINCE2 or AgilePM
• Experience delivering an E-commerce platform or ERP system in the public sector or a similar complex setting
• Experience managing suppliers and contracts for data or technology services

This assignment will provide an excellent opportunity to work on a high profile data transformation project from mobilisation through to delivery.