Project Manager

We are seeking an experienced Junior Project Manager to join a large-scale IT transformation programme. You will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering all integration-related workstreams, ensuring that systems, data, and business processes operate seamlessly across multiple platforms, vendors, and business units.

Working at the heart of our transformation, you will collaborate with architecture, development, and testing teams to manage complex dependencies and ensure interoperability remains aligned with enterprise standards and strategic objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Delivery: Assist in leading the end-to-end delivery of integration workstreams within the transformation programme.
• Planning & Coordination: Develop detailed project plans, schedules, and dependency maps while coordinating activities across internal teams and third-party providers.
• Technical Oversight: Ensure APIs, middleware, interfaces, and data exchange mechanisms are designed and deployed to agreed standards.
• Architecture Alignment: Work closely with Enterprise Architecture to align integration designs with the technology roadmap.
• Governance & Security: Track and report on progress, risks, and issues, ensuring all solutions meet security, compliance, and data governance standards.
• Testing & Quality: Manage integration testing phases—including SIT, UAT, and performance testing—in coordination with test leads.
• Operational Transition: Facilitate change and release management and support cutover and post-go-live stabilisation.

Key Deliverables

• Integration project plans and delivery roadmaps.
• Interface design and mapping documentation.
• Management of specific system interfaces including Contact Centre, Maximo, and ServiceNow.
• Comprehensive risk, issue, and dependency logs.
• Regular governance reports and integration test strategy results.
• Post-implementation support plans and lessons learned.

Skills and Experience

Essential:

• Proven experience (minimum 3-5 years') delivering integration projects within large-scale IT transformation or ERP/CRM/Cloud migration programmes.
• Understanding of system integration architectures, including APIs, ESB, and middleware.
• Proficiency in Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Strong project management skills, specifically in risk management, scheduling, and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience managing end-to-end testing and deployment of integration components.
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Desirable:

• Experience with cloud integration platforms such as Azure Integration Services, AWS, Mulesoft, or Dell Boomi.
• Knowledge of enterprise-scale ERP (SAP, Oracle, Workday) or CRM (Salesforce) integrations.
• Professional certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, AgilePM, SAFe, ITIL, or TOGAF.
• Understanding of DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.