Senior Project Manager/ Programme Manager
- Recruiter
- Redhill
- Location
- Winchester
- Salary
- 400.00 - 475.00 GBP Daily
- Posted
- 17 Feb 2017
- Closes
- 24 Feb 2017
- Sectors
- IT, Project Management
- Contract Type
- Temporary
- Hours
- Full Time
Project / Programme Manager - Winchester - GBP425 - GBP475 per day
My client are looking for an experienced Programme/ senior Project Manager to lead strategic definition and execution of their Smart environments release and configuration activities. They will also be responsible to Ensure environments are appropriately baseline in line with customer / contractual requirements for production fix and test support, Develop a configuration knowledge base for each environment with a focus on integration within the environments and applications; Implement expert best practice implementation of processes and leadership consensus.
Key responsibilities
- Work within the Smart Integration Team to ensure that configuration and release activities are consistently applied across all project test environments.
- Directly reporting to the Head of Smart Environments.
- Responsible for determining the strategy, governance and process for configuration items and change activity onto the test environments.
- Lead the technical team resource to document knowledge base of current configuration and identify issue areas for improvement
- Work with suppliers to develop an enduring strategy for deployments and integration onto the environments.
- Lead concept, design and implementation of a configuration management tool.
- Develop processes for configuration and release standardisation.
- Engage with ITE technical project teams to ensure consistent approach to development and release.
- Engage with programme test release management team to agree clear responsibilities and ownership for release and configuration.
- Audit and improve final acceptance activities for environment change / build activities.
- Work with PMO to define quality gate checkpoints and required artefacts.
Desired Knowledge and experience
- Smart metering industry experience
- Experience operating in matrix management organisation
- Worked on large programmes (10+ work streams)
- Experienced implementing configuration and release management processes across large scale IT environments
- Complex system integration experience
- Environment management experience
- Technical knowledge of virtualised infrastructure, operating systems and security
Essential Qualifications
- PRINCE 2, PMP, APMP or equivalent
My client are looking for an experienced Programme/ senior Project Manager to lead strategic definition and execution of their Smart environments release and configuration activities. They will also be responsible to Ensure environments are appropriately baseline in line with customer / contractual requirements for production fix and test support, Develop a configuration knowledge base for each environment with a focus on integration within the environments and applications; Implement expert best practice implementation of processes and leadership consensus.
Key responsibilities
- Work within the Smart Integration Team to ensure that configuration and release activities are consistently applied across all project test environments.
- Directly reporting to the Head of Smart Environments.
- Responsible for determining the strategy, governance and process for configuration items and change activity onto the test environments.
- Lead the technical team resource to document knowledge base of current configuration and identify issue areas for improvement
- Work with suppliers to develop an enduring strategy for deployments and integration onto the environments.
- Lead concept, design and implementation of a configuration management tool.
- Develop processes for configuration and release standardisation.
- Engage with ITE technical project teams to ensure consistent approach to development and release.
- Engage with programme test release management team to agree clear responsibilities and ownership for release and configuration.
- Audit and improve final acceptance activities for environment change / build activities.
- Work with PMO to define quality gate checkpoints and required artefacts.
Desired Knowledge and experience
- Smart metering industry experience
- Experience operating in matrix management organisation
- Worked on large programmes (10+ work streams)
- Experienced implementing configuration and release management processes across large scale IT environments
- Complex system integration experience
- Environment management experience
- Technical knowledge of virtualised infrastructure, operating systems and security
Essential Qualifications
- PRINCE 2, PMP, APMP or equivalent