Project Manager

Sopra Steria Ltd; West of England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Annual leave – 25 days + optional days

Private medical

Life assurance

Pension

Flexible benefits fund

Job summary

Sopra Steria Ltd in Gloucester is seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to lead a varied portfolio across infrastructure, cloud, networking, and security in a highly secure environment.

You will manage end-to-end delivery across multiple workstreams, collaborate with engineers and stakeholders, and drive governance, risk, and reporting using Agile, Waterfall or hybrid methodologies. Active eDV clearance is required.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Project management

Jira experience

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Cloud & infrastructure

Tools

Azure

AWS

VMware

Cisco

Citrix

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. We’re looking for an experienced Technical Project Manager to join a dynamic technology delivery team within our Aerospace, Defence and Security business. You’ll lead a varied portfolio of projects across infrastructure, cloud, networking, security, end-user computing and application environments, helping to deliver critical solutions in a highly secure setting. 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).
Internal Recruiter:Soraya.
Salary: £competitve.
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.

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