Senior Manager - Programme Manager – Pensions Data Migration

Accenture UK; Bath; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture UK is seeking a Programme Manager to lead data migration programmes within our UK Insurance Practice. You will direct multi-workstream delivery across Life, Pensions and Retail Investments, engaging with senior sponsors and governance forums to secure outcomes.

Pensions data migration expertise is highly valued and expected. This role requires mobility between Bath and London offices, with travel to client sites as needed.

Qualifications

• Proven experience directing data migration programmes within financial services.
• Strong track record as a Programme Manager on complex technology-enabled transformations.
• Experience managing budgets, forecasts, and senior-level reporting.
• Excellent stakeholder management and advisory capabilities.
• Ability to work across multi-workstream delivery teams.
• Pensions administration or data processes knowledge is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of a complex, multi-workstream migration programme.
• Establish and lead programme governance and risk management.
• Manage budgets, milestones and delivery predictability.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders.
• Guide supplier and third-party delivery dependencies.
• Provide leadership during critical events such as cutover and go-live.
• Mentor and develop managers and delivery leads.

Skills

Data migration

Programme management

Stakeholder management

Budget management

Governance

Pensions domain

Job description

Role Title: Programme Manager – Pensions Data Migration

Location: Bath / London / UK regional offices, with flexibility and mobility required for client and partner delivery

Career Level: Level 6 – Senior Manager

Practice / Team: UK Insurance – Life, Pensions and Retail Investments (Programme Delivery)

About the team

Within Accenture, the UK Insurance team helps leading insurers, life companies, pension providers, wealth managers and retail investment organisations shape and deliver major transformation. Altus Consulting was acquired by Accenture in 2025 to extend the capabilities within the UK Insurance team. We bring together Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Song and Operations to help clients modernise platforms, improve customer and adviser experience, strengthen operational resilience, and unlock value from data, AI and cloud-enabled delivery.

Our clients come to us because we understand Financial Services and have “lived and breathed” the problems that they are facing. Not only that, we produce realistic and actionable advice through visual Consulting methods, which are rated highly by our clients and enable them to head towards success.

If you are passionate about Financial Services and delivering business or technology solutions that make a genuine difference, then Altus and the Programme Delivery team is the place for you – for most roles, you don’t even need to have prior Consulting experience. We provide an inclusive, positive, safe business for all of our team to work in. As part of the broader Accenture team, you’ll have access to industry leading opportunities, genuine career advancement and an opportunity to work in a collaborative and highly stimulating environment.

About the role

Accenture is seeking an experienced Programme Manager to join the UK Insurance Programme Delivery team at Level 6. This is a senior delivery role directing complex technology-enabled transformation programmes across our Life, Pensions and Retail Investments client base, with a particular opportunity to apply data migration expertise within Pensions administration environments.

The successful candidate will combine strong programme direction experience with the governance, stakeholder and delivery leadership capabilities required to run large, multi-workstream programmes to successful outcomes, acting as a trusted senior advisor to client leadership. Pensions administration and scheme migration experience will be a significant differentiator for this role.

In our team you will drive

• Programme direction for major transformation programmes, including mobilisation, planning, governance, delivery execution and benefits realisation
• Senior client relationships with Programme Sponsors, Heads of Change and Operations Directors, acting as a trusted advisor on delivery risk and outcomes
• Integrated delivery across Accenture, client teams and third-party suppliers, ensuring clear accountability and effective governance
• Multi-disciplinary delivery teams, creating the conditions for quality delivery and sustained performance
• Thought leadership on programme delivery best practice, including data migration approaches, cutover planning and regulatory data integrity

As a Programme Manager, you will

• Own delivery of a complex, multi-workstream programme, ensuring alignment to client outcomes, quality standards and commercial objectives
• Establish and lead programme governance, including steering groups, risk and issue management, dependency management and escalation
• Manage programme budgets, resource plans, milestones and delivery predictability
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders across business and technology functions
• Manage supplier and third-party delivery dependencies, including performance and issue resolution
• Translate strategic ambition into executable delivery plans and pragmatic governance
• Provide visible leadership during critical delivery events such as testing, data migration, cutover and go-live
• Mentor and develop managers and delivery leads within the team

We are looking for experience in the following skills

• Proven experience directing data migration programmes, including migration strategy, cutover planning, dual-running, reconciliation and data quality assurance
• Proven track record as a Programme Manager or Senior Delivery Lead on complex technology-enabled transformation programmes within Financial Services
• Demonstrable success managing programme budgets, delivery forecasts, change control and senior-level reporting
• Strong stakeholder management experience, able to influence and advise senior client stakeholders
• Strong supplier management capability across technology partners and delivery centres
• Experience shaping governance across workstreams including data migration, testing, change management and deployment
• Excellent communication, consulting and problem-solving skills

Set yourself apart

Pensions sector experience (highly advantageous for this role):

• Direct experience of Pensions administration platforms, scheme migration or regulatory-driven data programmes within a Pensions environment specifically
• Understanding of Pensions scheme administration, member data and the regulatory considerations relevant to data migration in this sector
• Experience of legacy Pensions platform decommissioning, dual-running and reconciliation

Also valuable:

• Broader Life & Pensions or Retail Investment platform migration experience
• Strong market relevance within UK Pensions or Retail Investment platform providers

What's in it for you

At Accenture, in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days' vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice.

You will join a collaborative and ambitious UK Insurance team with access to Accenture's global network of industry, technology and delivery experts. This role offers the opportunity to lead major client transformations and deliver programmes that create lasting value for clients and their customers.

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role, as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with clients, key suppliers and other ecosystem partners to enable delivery of the first-class services Accenture is known for.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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