Project Manager

Sopra Steria; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Annual leave 25 days

Private medical

Life assurance

Pension

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Sopra Steria is seeking a Project Manager for an on-site role in the Gloucester area. The role requires active eDV clearance and involves delivering complex technology projects across multiple domains with engineers and stakeholders.

You will manage governance, budgets, and schedules, working across infrastructure, cloud, networking, security and applications. The position emphasizes Agile, Waterfall or hybrid delivery, with Jira used for progress tracking.

Qualifications

• Active Enhanced Developed Vetting clearance required.
• Proven experience delivering complex technical projects across multiple domains.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and priorities.
• Strong understanding of project governance and delivery methodologies.
• Experience with Agile, Waterfall or hybrid environments, alongside strong Jira experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end delivery of multiple technology projects.
• Build and maintain project plans, risk, assurance, issues and dependencies logs, governance documentation and stakeholder communications.
• Work closely with technical teams across infrastructure, cloud, networking, security and application environments.
• Manage project budgets, timelines, risks, dependencies and resource allocation.
• Facilitate project governance and reporting to senior stakeholders and customers.
• Drive delivery within Agile, Waterfall and hybrid environments while using Jira to track progress and support reporting.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder mgmt

Agile

Waterfall

Jira

Leadership

Tools

Jira

Job description

Are you a Project Manager who enjoys working across a broad technology landscape and delivering complex projects in secure, fast-paced environments? If you’re confident managing multiple technical workstreams and thrive when working closely with engineers and stakeholders, this could be the role for you.

This is a full-time onsite role based in the Gloucester area, and you must hold active Enhanced Developed Vetting (eDV) clearance to be considered.

What you'll be doing:

• Managing the end-to-end delivery of multiple technology projects simultaneously.
• Building and maintaining project plans, risk, assurance, issues and dependencies logs, governance documentation and stakeholder communications.
• Working closely with technical teams across infrastructure, cloud, networking, security and application environments.
• Managing project budgets, timelines, risks, dependencies and resource allocation.
• Facilitating project governance and reporting to senior stakeholders and customers.
• Driving delivery within Agile, Waterfall and hybrid environments while using Jira to track progress and support reporting.

What you’ll bring:

• Active Enhanced Developed Vetting clearance, required throughout your time in the role.
• Proven experience delivering complex technical projects across multiple domains.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and competing priorities.
• Strong understanding of project management principles, governance and delivery methodologies.
• Experience working within Agile, Waterfall or hybrid delivery environments, alongside strong Jira experience.
• Ability to influence and lead teams without direct line management responsibility, alongside strong commercial awareness.

It would be great if you had:

• Experience delivering within managed services, technology services or complex enterprise environments.
• Exposure to Azure, AWS, VMware, Cisco, Citrix or desktop technologies.

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent.

Location: Gloucester.

Security Clearance Level: Active Enhanced Developed Vetting (eDV).

Salary: £competitive.

Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety and security critical markets

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.