Sr. Technical Project Manager

Position Summary: Own delivery of the end-to-end Disaster Recovery programme across cloud and on-prem, from mobilization to steady state.

Core responsibilities

• Establish programme governance: charter, plan, RAID, change control, reporting, benefits tracking.
• Drive scope, schedule, budget, risk, and vendor performance across all workstreams.
• Coordinate DR build (landing zones, connectivity, platform enablement), testing, and cutovers.
• Align with security, legal, and audit for policy, data residency, and compliance.
• Lead executive communications, SteerCo, and stakeholder management.
• Plan and oversee DR exercises; manage handover to operations with full runbooks and SLAs.

Required experience

• 10–15+ years in infra/cloud programmes; 5+ years delivering regulated or government projects.
• Proven management of multi-vendor contracts, RFPs/SoWs, acceptance criteria, and SLAs.
• Strong financial control (forecasting, EVM, change budgets).

Skills

• Programme/portfolio management, vendor/stakeholder negotiation, risk & issue leadership.
• Clear, executive-level communication and reporting; decision-making under ambiguity.

Certifications

• Required: PMP or PRINCE2 Practitioner; ITIL v4 Foundation.
• Preferred: Agile (Scrum/SAFe), security/governance certifications.

Key deliverables

• Programme plan & IMR, budget tracker, risk register, status & SteerCo packs, test strategy, acceptance & handover pack.

KPIs

• Milestones on time (≥95%), budget variance (≤5%), audit findings (zero critical), DR test success rate (≥98%), stakeholder CSAT (≥4/5).

Reporting:

• Reports to: IT and Deputy of IT department
• Works with: Cross-functional project teams, IT departments, vendors, and business stakeholders