Data Platform Programme Lead (Hybrid Contract)

Source Technology Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 111,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Source Technology Limited in London is seeking an experienced Data Platform Project Manager to lead a large-scale data platform programme on a contract basis. This senior role focuses on governance, delivery management, stakeholder alignment, and commercial oversight.

You will operate as an independent delivery lead across multiple workstreams, suppliers, and stakeholder groups. The successful candidate will drive execution, planning, financial control, and decision management within a complex

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering complex enterprise programmes involving multiple suppliers and workstreams.
• Strong governance, planning, budgeting, stakeholder management, RAID management, and reporting.
• Ability to influence and drive outcomes without direct line management authority.
• Experience managing large-scale data platform, data transformation, or data product delivery programmes.
• Strong commercial acumen with budgets, contracts, supplier performance, and financial controls.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and executive stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage programme scope, backlogs, prioritisation processes, and change control.
• Establish and maintain a comprehensive RAID framework, ensuring risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies are actively managed.
• Track resource allocation, utilisation, capacity, and delivery performance across multiple teams.
• Facilitate and drive decision-making processes, ensuring stakeholders are equipped with the necessary information to make informed choices.
• Manage programme plans and delivery schedules, adapting to changing priorities and evolving business requirements.
• Review commercial and contractual commitments, ensuring delivery plans align with agreed obligations and milestones.
• Maintain detailed financial oversight, including forecasts, budgets, actual spend, variances, and executive reporting.
• Develop and govern RASCI frameworks to ensure clear accountability across all participating teams.
• Deliver accurate, objective status reporting, including clear RAG assessments and mitigation plans.
• Oversee programme administration, including timesheets, invoices, licences, environments, and supplier coordination.
• Lead communication and change management activities, ensuring stakeholders are informed and prepared for changes to scope, timelines, and delivery objectives.
• Support programme governance through steering committees, leadership updates, reporting packs, and decision forums.
• Facilitate negotiation and prioritisation discussions by balancing costs, benefits, risks, and strategic considerations.

Skills

Program governance

Delivery management

Stakeholder management

Budgeting & cost control

RAID management

Executive reporting

Vendor coordination

Data platform delivery

Job description

Source Technology Limited in London is seeking an experienced Data Platform Project Manager to lead a large-scale data platform programme on a contract basis. This senior role focuses on governance, delivery management, stakeholder alignment, and commercial oversight.

You will operate as an independent delivery lead across multiple workstreams, suppliers, and stakeholder groups. The successful candidate will drive execution, planning, financial control, and decision management within a complex