IT Programme Manager (Decommissioning) - Bracknell

Adecco; Bracknell; On-site; GBP 149,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Bracknell is seeking an IT Programme Manager to oversee a high-impact programme aimed at decommissioning a legacy IT system. This role involves ensuring seamless migration with minimal disruption and managing complex dependencies across various delivery teams. Candidates should have proven experience in managing IT transformation initiatives and possess strong stakeholder engagement skills.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex IT transformation or decommissioning programmes.
• Strong understanding of enterprise IT systems and data flows.
• Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end planning and delivery of the legacy decommissioning programme.
• Manage complex inter-system dependencies and create delivery roadmaps.
• Collaborate with teams to align delivery plans and manage expectations.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Dependency management

Agile delivery methodology

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

IT Programme Manager (Decommissioning) - Bracknell

12 month - 72 ph - Inside IR35

IT Programme Manager to lead a high-impact programme to decommission the complex legacy IT system comprising multiple interdependent applications. You will be working on a major transformation initiative working across both the technology and business landscape to ensure seamless migration, system continuity and minimal disruption to users.

Experience

Proven experience leading complex IT transformation or decommissioning programmes with multiple delivery teams

Strong understanding of enterprise IT systems, data flows, APIs, and legacy-to-modern system transitions

Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership skills

Skilled in dependency management across distributed systems and teams

Experience creating phased implementation plans to support non-disruptive change

Familiarity with agile delivery methodology and tools: Scaled Agile: Scrum of scrums, Big Room Planning, JIRA, Confluence

Duties

Programme Leadership: End-to-end planning, delivery, and governance of the legacy decommissioning programme, ensuring alignment with technical and business goals.

Dependency Management: Map and manage complex inter-system dependencies. Develop and maintain an evolving delivery roadmap that enables staged decommissioning without impacting business continuity.

Technical Coordination: Ensure that new capabilities (APIs, data models, mastering systems, etc.) are developed and deployed by the appropriate teams in time to replace and retire legacy components.

Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with engineering squads, product teams, and business stakeholders to align delivery plans, resolve conflicts, and manage expectations.

Communication & Change Management: Support the platform lead to create and execute a robust onboarding and communications plan to transition multiple teams gradually and effectively onto the new systems.

Risk & Issue Management: Identify, track, and mitigate delivery and continuity risks across multiple teams and phases.

Governance & Reporting: Provide regular reporting, highlighting progress, risks, and decision points.