Change Project Manager

Atrium (EMEA)

England

On-site

GBP 73,800 - 92,250

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

A financial services consultancy is seeking a Change Implementation Specialist to coordinate infrastructure changes in a regulatory environment. The role requires at least 5 years of experience in banking and strong skills in stakeholder management and documentation. The position is offered as a contract, hybrid working from Leeds or Edinburgh, with a daily rate of up to £500.

Qualifications

Minimum of 5 years experience in delivering structured infrastructure changes.
Hands-on experience with JIRA and Confluence in Agile environments.
Strong understanding of change governance and incident response.

Responsibilities

Coordinate and execute structured change events to ensure operational continuity.
Produce and maintain detailed implementation plans and documentation.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure well-governed change processes.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Risk-based decision making

Documentation skills

Infrastructure changes delivery

Dependency management

Agile delivery (SAFe)

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Terraform

Ansible

Dynatrace

Job description

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Contract Assignment: Change Implementation Specialist

Start Date: October 2025

Location: Leeds Or Edinburgh, UK – (Hybrid) Twice a week in the office

Duration: 6 months (initially) - Will run till mid-2027

Daily Rate: upto £500 per day

Engagement Type: Via PAYE

Working hours: Must be willing to work night shifts as there is a 24-7 change implementation

Must have the legal right to work in the UK, this role does not provide sponsorship

The Change Implementation Specialist will play a pivotal role in delivering high-volume, low-risk infrastructure and application changes within a regulated financial services environment. Working within a high-performing Agile delivery team governed by SAFe principles, the specialist will ensure structured, compliant, and timely execution of change events.

Responsibilities:

Coordinate and execute structured change events during defined windows (including overnight and out-of-hours activities) to ensure operational continuity and compliance.
Produce, validate, and maintain detailed implementation plans and Sequence of Events (SOE) documentation for controlled change delivery.
Conduct environment readiness and dependency assessments prior to execution.
Deliver changes across legacy and target environments, including dual-running, decommissioning, and provisioning activities.
Represent and support changes in governance forums (CCBs, CABs, technical risk committees), managing incident escalations and post-change reviews.
Collaborate with infrastructure, operations, platform engineering, and cybersecurity teams to ensure well-governed change processes.
Drive adoption of a standardised, scalable change delivery model using JIRA and Confluence.
Contribute to continuous improvement efforts in change governance, documentation, and operational processes.

Required Skills & Experience:

The change implementation specialist must have a minimum of 5 years experience delivering structured infrastructure or platform changes within the banking/financial services sector.
The change implementation specialist must have strong stakeholder management and risk-based decision-making during live change events.
Experience assessing, escalating, and supporting change-related incidents in production.
Familiarity with high-volume decommissioning, provisioning, and dependency management.
Excellent documentation skills for runbooks, change records, and post-event reviews.
The change implementation specialist must have hands-on experience with JIRA and Confluence in Agile delivery environments (ideally SAFe).
Strong understanding of change governance, incident response, SOE planning, and risk assessment.
Awareness of network flow and application mapping, enterprise firewalls (e.g., Checkpoint, F5), and hybrid/on-prem/cloud infrastructures (HP, Dell, Oracle Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP).
Knowledge of legacy system decommissioning, enterprise backup, monitoring, and rollback tooling.

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