IT Programme Manager

IT Programme Manager- Bracknell/ Remote- 9 Months- £60-£65 Umbrella

We are seeking an experienced IT Programme Manager to lead a high-impact programme to decommission the complex legacy system comprising multiple interdependent applications. It is a major transformation initiative working across both the technology and business landscape to ensure seamless migration, system continuity and minimal disruption to users. The initiative is underway and the impacted squads identified. We require a programme manager to help with the coordination across the squads to deliver the combined objective.

Key Accountabilities

Support the Platform Lead through key responsibilities:

• Programme Leadership: End-to-end planning, delivery, and governance of the legacy decommissioning programme, ensuring alignment with technical and business goals.
• Dependency Management: Map and manage complex inter-system dependencies. Develop and maintain an evolving delivery roadmap that enables staged decommissioning without impacting business continuity.
• Technical Coordination: Ensure that new capabilities (APIs, data models, mastering systems, etc.) are developed and deployed by the appropriate teams in time to replace and retire legacy components.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with engineering squads, product teams, and business stakeholders to align delivery plans, resolve conflicts, and manage expectations.
• Communication & Change Management: Support the platform lead to create and execute a robust onboarding and communications plan to transition multiple teams gradually and effectively onto the new systems.
• Risk & Issue Management: Identify, track, and mitigate delivery and continuity risks across multiple teams and phases.
• Governance & Reporting: Provide regular reporting, highlighting progress, risks, and decision points.

Experience / Previous jobs required for the job

• Proven experience leading complex IT transformation or decommissioning programmes with multiple delivery teams
• Strong understanding of enterprise IT systems, data flows, APIs, and legacy-to-modern system transitions
• Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership skills
• Skilled in dependency management across distributed systems and teams
• Experience creating phased implementation plans to support non-disruptive change
• Familiarity with agile delivery methodology and tools: Scaled Agile: Scrum of scrums, Big Room Planning, JIRA, Confluence
• Experience in Life Science and/or Research and Development environment preferable, but not essential

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