Programme Manager

Thrive IT Systems; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Thrive IT Systems is seeking a senior transformation leader to direct large-scale platform and data migration programmes across multiple workstreams and geographies. You will own governance, roadmaps, and delivery assurance, coordinating across business, engineering, operations, risk and suppliers.

You will challenge proposals, assess trade-offs, and secure agreement on target state priorities, funding, sequencing and material delivery trade-offs, while ensuring regulatory and audit readiness.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience directing large-scale platform and data migration transformations including SAS environments.
• Ability to govern target state direction, roadmap development, environment readiness testing, parallel running, cutover planning and decommissioning.
• Deep understanding of SAS migration dependencies, data lineage reconciliation, and post-migration assurance.
• Proven governance across enterprise scope, benefits realisation, RAID oversight, cross-programme dependencies and audit-ready documentation.

Responsibilities

• Own transformation governance across enterprise scope and benefits realisation.
• Drive timely decisions and delivery pace across multiple workstreams/programmes and global teams.
• Influence executive and senior stakeholders on priorities, funding sequencing, readiness and delivery trade-offs.
• Ensure alignment with risk, security controls, regulatory expectations and audit readiness.

Skills

Agile Delivery

Benefits Management

Project Planning

Resource Management

Stakeholder Management

Job description

• Extensive experience directing largescale platform and data migration transformations including SAS environments Able to govern option analysis target state direction roadmap development environment readiness testing parallel running cutover backout planning and decommissioning across multiple programmes or workstreams
• Deep understanding of SAS migration dependencies including code remediation data lineage reconciliation control requirements operational readiness and postmigration assurance Able to challenge technical proposals assess trade-offs and make informed enterprise level delivery investment and risk decisions
• Significant experience leading complex enterprise wide technology transformations across multiple business areas platforms and geographies with accountability for overall transformation outcomes rather than only individual project or workstream delivery
• Proven ability to own transformation governance enterprise scope benefits realisation RAID oversight cross programme dependencies stage gates assurance and audit ready documentation
• Confident driving timely decisions accountability and delivery pace across multiple workstreamsprogrammes and global teams
• Proven experience influencing and aligning executive and senior stakeholders across businessengineering operations risk security control functions and suppliers Able to secure agreement ontarget state priorities funding sequencing readiness adoption and material delivery trade-offs
• Extensive experience delivering complex change within regulated financial institutions with a strongunderstanding of risk management security controls operations audit and regulatory expectationsAble to govern risk acceptance exceptions and remediation at transformation level
• Experience owning or contributing to investment cases financial forecasts resource strategiesdelivery capacity and
• Skills: Agile (Value-Driven Delivery), Benefits Management, Project Planning, Resource Management, Stakeholder Management