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Project Manager - Data Centre Migration at Xpertise, Coventry, £500 per day
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What you'll do
- Lead the end-to-end UK delivery of the data centre migration programme
- Manage technical migration activities across infrastructure, networking and connectivity workstreams
- Coordinate networking activities, including dress rehearsals and the final migration cutover
- Oversee the reconfiguration of connectivity across UK and Ireland branch locations
- Manage third party supplier transitions, including VPN and payment system changes
- Act as the key liaison between UK stakeholders and international technical teams
- Identify, manage and mitigate project risks to ensure business continuity
- Provide regular programme updates to sponsors and key stakeholders
What they're looking for
- Proven experience delivering complex data centre migration projects
- Strong technical infrastructure background with the ability to engage technical teams effectively
- Experience managing projects within Wintel environments
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Strong programme governance, planning and risk management capabilities
- Experience coordinating complex networking and connectivity projects
- Willingness to travel across the UK as required
Nice to have
- IBM i Series environment experience
- Retail sector project experience
- Cloud migration programme delivery
- Experience working with major managed service providers such as Kyndryl or similar organisations
Summarised by NextRaise from the employer’s description, which follows in full below.
Full description from employer
Project Manager - Data Centre Migration
Location: Midlands (Hybrid) | Working Pattern: Contract (Outside IR35) - 6 months | Day Rate: £500 per dayAn exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Contract Project Manager to lead a major UK data centre migration programme. This role will play a critical part in delivering a large scale infrastructure transformation, ensuring a seamless transition while protecting business operations and maintaining service continuity.
Our client is undertaking a significant technology transformation involving the relocation of its UK data centre environment to a new European hosting location. Working alongside internal infrastructure teams, international stakeholders and third-party suppliers, you will take ownership of the UK delivery workstream and drive the migration through to successful completion.
Why Join
- Lead a high profile infrastructure transformation programme
- Take ownership of a complex, business critical migration project
- Work with UK and international technology teams
- Enjoy a blend of hybrid working and site based project engagement
- Lead the end-to-end UK delivery of the data centre migration programme
- Manage technical migration activities across infrastructure, networking and connectivity workstreams
- Coordinate networking activities, including dress rehearsals and the final migration cutover
- Oversee the reconfiguration of connectivity across UK and Ireland branch locations
- Manage third party supplier transitions, including VPN and payment system changes
- Act as the key liaison between UK stakeholders and international technical teams
- Identify, manage and mitigate project risks to ensure business continuity
- Provide regular programme updates to sponsors and key stakeholders
- Proven experience delivering complex data centre migration projects
- Strong technical infrastructure background with the ability to engage technical teams effectively
- Experience managing projects within Wintel environments
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Strong programme governance, planning and risk management capabilities
- Experience coordinating complex networking and connectivity projects
- Willingness to travel across the UK as required
- IBM i Series environment experience
- Retail sector project experience
- Cloud migration programme delivery
- Experience working with major managed service providers such as Kyndryl or similar organisations
- Role: Contract Project Manager - Data Centre Migration
- Day Rate: £500 per day
- Location: Midlands based preferred with hybrid working
- Travel: UK-wide travel required between client sites
- Contract Type: Contract (Outside IR35) - 6 months
- Project Focus: UK Data Centre Migration and Infrastructure Transformation
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Right to work in the UK is required for this role.
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Coventry, United Kingdom
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