Contract: Programme Manager (Cloud Infrastructure)
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 6 months
Rate: £750- 800 a day (Outside IR35 determination)
Location: Remote. May require an occasional on-site meetings in UK
Reference: 20336
Immediate contract for a Senior Programme Manager with in-depth expertise of delivering a major Cloud Infrastructure Programme
- Must have - Service Provider/Global Fi experience in Cloud Infrastructure Build and workload Migration Programme Management
- Key strengths: Stakeholder Management and Governance, Execution Command and Control
Key Scope:
- Own end?to?end delivery of a cloud infrastructure and application migration program within a defined cloud transformation operating model, acting as the single point of accountability for scope, schedule, cost, risk, and outcomes across all migration and platform workstreams, in line with PMO governance standards
- Manages scope, roadmap, and delivery cadence using standardized PMO artefacts (e.g. integrated plans, migration waves, dependency maps, executive dashboards), providing clear leadership?level visibility of cloud readiness, migration progress, and risks.
- Leads governance, risk, and stakeholder engagement across the cloud operating model, proactively managing risks related to security, resilience, performance, and cutover, and ensuring escalations follow defined PMO and transformation governance forums.
- Demonstrates senior program leadership capability consistent with PMO standards, typically with 10+ years' experience delivering complex technology transformations, strong financial and contract management skills, excellent executive communication, and proficiency with PM tooling (PMP preferred).
- Applies PMO financial and commercial controls to cloud programs, including budgeting, forecasting, change control, and SOW governance, ensuring financial accuracy, transparency, and alignment to agreed cloud transformation milestones and benefits realization.
- Overall management of the supplier issues, risks, and opportunity identification
- Documenting all key changes
- Management of all project meetings
- Management of all technical and oversight meetings between Telefonica and the suppliers
- Management of all agreed artifacts and acceptance criteria
- Management and reporting of material entering and leaving
- Management of all reviews and meeting
- Progress meeting
- Technical interchange meetings
- Coordinating Consulting Activities
- Change control board meetings
- Financial understand of budget and cost
- Delivery and shipping dates of hardware
- Completion of HLD and LLD
Networking People (UK) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.