Project Manager - Payments Platform Migration in London

Payments Recruitment; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is seeking a Project Manager for a contract role in London, focused on migrating payment platforms to Azure. The ideal candidate has experience in payments and project management within complex organizations, with a strong ability to engage stakeholders and oversee project methodologies like Agile. This role offers a competitive daily rate of £500 - £600.

Qualifications

• Strong people management skills.
• Track record of delivering migrations across payment platforms.
• Experience working in fast-paced and complex organizations.

Responsibilities

• Manage payment platform migration projects from Postilion to Azure.
• Oversee internal and external resources during project execution.

Skills

Project management

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Payment platform migration

Communication skills

Job description

Overview

Project Manager - Platform Migration

Location: London

Type: Contract

Salary: £500 - £600 Per Day

Our client is a world class payments organisation who work with some of the best known brands globally, managing payment solutions and ensuring they can deliver best in class payment experiences to their customer base. As part of our continuing drive for improvement, we are now in a position to move several of our high profile merchants from our existing platform to our new Azure platform, and are keen to hire a Project Manager to work closely with the relevant stakeholders (both internally & externally) to deliver this challenging project.

About the role

• Project management of the payment platform migration projects from Postilion to Azure, including UAT & Certification
• Management of internal resources (technical, solutions architects etc) and external stakeholders (customer/merchant technical teams)

About you

• You are likely to have established a good understanding of Payments gained within traditional Banking, Challenger Banks, Consulting, Fintech or Payment Service Providers (PSP).
• Experience delivering across multiple methodologies, incl. agile, scaled agile, DevOps, etc
• A track record of delivering migrations across payment platforms
• Strong peoplemanagement skills and ability to engage with senior stakeholders both internally & externally
• Experience working as a Project Manager in a global, fast paced and complex organisation within the payments / software / platform migration space
• Experience of working to various project methodologies including Agile.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, coupled with diplomacy and influencing skills.
• Experience or working knowledge of Postilion would be beneficial but is not essential.