Project Manager - 3 month Secondment

00160 LEIDOS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD.; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 123,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos Australia is seeking a Project Manager – Data Centre Migration & Organisational Change to lead end-to-end migration initiatives. You will coordinate technical and business workstreams, drive change readiness, and ensure a smooth transition to BAU operations across infrastructure environments.

The role demands strong governance, stakeholder engagement and delivery of complex programs in a regulated setting. Applicants should have PMC/PRINCE2 familiarity and security clearance eligibility.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading complex data centre migrations.
• Experience embedding Organisational Change Management in delivery.
• Strong ability to manage stakeholders across technical and business domains.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end data centre migration planning and delivery across all phases.
• Incorporate Organisational Change into migration activities with readiness and communications.
• Foster collaboration across technical teams, business ops, and vendors.
• Coordinate business and operational readiness and runbooks for BAU transition.
• Provide governance and reporting on scope, schedule, budget and risks.

Skills

Data centre migrations

Organisational Change Mgmt

Stakeholder management

Governance

Risk management

Job description

About Leidos Australia

At Leidos Australia, our work goes beyond a job title. We design, build, operate and support the systems, services and capabilities that help protect and advance the Australian way of life. Backed by a global organisation of more than 40,000 people, our Australian team of around 2,000 has partnered with government, defence and national security customers for more than 30 years. We deliver mission-critical solutions where reliability, trust and purpose matter. Leidos is a destination for people who want their work to have purpose, their contribution to be recognised, and their career to grow without needing to fit a single mould. Meaningful work is supported by benefits, flexibility and career pathways that help you grow while balancing life outside work.

We offer:

• Flex Your Way - Tailor work to your life with options including Life Days (up to 12 extra days off per year), part-time arrangements, job sharing, and compressed hours.
• Wellbeing That Matters - Free access to Headspace and MeQuilibrium, plus dedicated wellness spaces to support your mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing.
• Learn Without Limits - Access over 120,000 on-demand courses, alongside technical, project management, leadership, and professional development opportunities.
• Work That Makes an Impact - Contribute to nationally significant projects that matter, solve complex challenges, and accelerate your career through unique growth opportunities.
• Build Your Future - Whether you're deepening technical expertise or preparing for leadership, we'll invest in your development every step of the way.
• And Much More - These are just a few of the ways we invest in our people and help them thrive.

About the Team

You’ll join a team where people work with integrity, inclusion, innovation, agility, collaboration and commitment. In practice, that means sharing ownership, solving complex problems together and staying connected to the customer context, the purpose behind the work and how each role contributes to meaningful outcomes. The Civil Digital Modernisation business delivers IT services to Australian Federal and State Government departments and agencies to accelerate digital modernisation and ensure secure, resilient, and adaptive environments that meet evolving regulatory, compliance, and business needs. Our approach integrates advancing data, AI, cloud, and automation delivering agility, security, efficiency, and innovation at scale.

The Opportunity

As the Project Manager – Data Centre Migration & Organisational Change, you will be responsible for the end-to-end planning, coordination and delivery of complex data centre migration activities, with a strong focus on Organisational Change Management, stakeholder readiness and operational transition. You will coordinate technical and business workstreams through discovery, design, build, migration, cutover, validation and hypercare, helping ensure impacted business and technology teams are prepared for changes to infrastructure, operating processes, support arrangements, responsibilities and service delivery. Acting as the integration point between technical delivery, business stakeholders, service operations, vendors and change activities, you will help ensure each migration is both technically successful and effectively adopted operationally.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead end-to-end data centre migration planning and delivery across discovery, design, build, migration, cutover, validation and hypercare, coordinating migration waves, technical dependencies, readiness criteria, go/no-go activities and post-migration reviews.
• Integrate Organisational Change Management into migration delivery through stakeholder and change-impact assessments, organisational-readiness activities, communications, engagement and the ongoing tracking of business and OCM readiness alongside technical readiness.
• Build collaborative relationships across technical teams, application owners, business operations, service management, leadership, vendors and third-party providers, facilitating workshops and establishing clear responsibilities, decision-making and escalation pathways.
• Coordinate business and operational readiness, including business validation, service verification, documentation, runbooks, knowledge transfer, support arrangements, hypercare and transition into BAU operations.
• Maintain project governance across scope, schedule, budget, resources, RAID, dependencies, decisions and milestones, providing clear migration reporting and dashboards covering technical, business and OCM readiness, risks and outcomes.

About You

We are looking for someone who brings judgement, curiosity and a collaborative approach to work that matters. You will bring:

• Demonstrated experience managing complex data centre migrations, infrastructure transformation or technology transition programs, with strong knowledge of discovery, dependency mapping, migration-wave planning, cutover and hypercare.
• Experience incorporating Organisational Change Management into technology delivery, including stakeholder analysis, change-impact assessments, organisational-readiness assessments and stakeholder communications.
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills across technical, operational, business and executive audiences, with an ability to translate technical migration activities into clear business impacts and actions.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary infrastructure teams across areas such as network, compute, storage, backup, security, identity and applications, together with an understanding of IT service transition and operational handover.
• Strong project governance, risk management and executive reporting capability, including experience establishing migration readiness criteria and go/no-go processes.
• Experience with live production data centre migrations, constrained outage windows, formal qualifications such as PMP or PRINCE2, and critical infrastructure, government, utilities or highly regulated environments will be highly regarded.

This role requires the successful applicant to be an Australian citizen, hold and be able to maintain a Baseline security clearance.

Pay Range

Pay Range: $123,300.00-$154,100.00

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available here.

Securing Your Data

Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information at any part of the employment application process. And Leidos will communicate with you only through emails that are sent from a Leidos.com email address. If you receive an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information, please report the email to [e-mail].

Commitment and Diversity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.

What to Expect When You Apply

Our hiring process is designed to be straightforward, respectful and easy to navigate. If your skills, experience and qualifications look aligned with the role, our Talent Acquisition team will contact you to discuss the next stage. You can expect:

• An initial conversation with our Talent Acquisition team
• An interview with the hiring manager or interview panel

We’ll let you know what to expect before each stage, including who you’ll meet and how to prepare. If you need any adjustments or support during the process, please let us know.