Infrastructure Project/Programme Manager - VM Ware, Oracle, Azure,

My client, a marketing leading, Blue Chip Payments organisation are currently recruiting for a Project/Programme Manager to join on a contract basis, sitting outside of IR35.

In the position, you will conceptualize, rationalize, and drive multiple simultaneous projects to deliver engineering work across the portfolio in my clients scrum execution model. In this role, you get to dive as deep as you want into the tech stack, the integration patterns, the organizational capabilities, and the company wide assets that can be leveraged to provide technical solutions to customer problems.

You will contribute to the strategies, design choices, and even the cloud infrastructure necessary to build comprehensive believable and achievable execution plans to deliver high-profile new features and capabilities for our customers. You may drive the execution of a feature through the full stack or may drive a project which spans multiple teams and integrations, reporting meaningful status along the way.

Experiences/Skill Requirements

• Demonstrated experience breaking down problems, organizing work, planning sprints, and delivering technical programs in agile delivery models (scrum, Kanban, etc.) and/or waterfall methodologies
• Experience building on premise and/or cloud-native infrastructure platforms at scale with a deep understanding of those platforms' capabilities and underlying technologies.
• Enjoys diving deep to understand of the platform's capabilities and underlying technologies.
• Proven track record of data driven decision-making and applying continuous improvement methodologies across teams
• Can debate the delivery strategy with business teams, architects, engineers, and designers
• Proactively manage the end-to-end delivery of engineering work through the organization and all dependent organizations, reporting out progress, ensuring dependencies are covered, overseeing the gaps between teams, processes, and systems, while removing all blocking issues leading to a successful delivery
• Work with platform architects and 2-3 scrum teams and have the technical credibility to drive constructive discussions between those areas (you may be Embedded within the scrum team or your work may be cross-cutting across products, multiple scrum teams, and/or technologies
• Can communicate to executives, peers, and staff with impact, eloquence, and authenticity
• Demonstrated experience building relationships, partnering with, and influencing dependent teams while commanding the respect of the individuals you work with across the organization
• Demonstrated ability to operate with independence and autonomy
• Plan, execute, and deliver projects from inception to completion related to a known technology, product, or program
• Understand the business context and the associated customer use cases
• Huge plus if you have expertise in Payments, IaaS, PaaS, serverless technology, CI/CD, NoSQL databases, microservices APIs, and distributed systems operations in a DevOps model

To hear more on the opportunity, please apply and i will follow up with a call to discuss further.