Senior Project Manager

OpticoreIT Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy in project management is seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee critical activities and ensure project milestones are achieved in the London area. You will manage the Jira environment, coordinate with various stakeholders, and handle risk management for an important project tied to the upcoming 2026 World Cup. Ideal candidates should have a proven track record in fast-paced environments and be proficient in Jira and Confluence. The role promotes diversity and is based on-site part-time.

Qualifications

• Proven track record as a Project Manager in a fast-paced corporate environment.
• High proficiency in Jira, Confluence, and other collaboration tools.
• A self-starter—comfortable chasing busy senior stakeholders for updates.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the master project plan and coordinate status meetings.
• Own the Jira environment and ensure all tasks are updated.
• Proactively chase technical leads to ensure milestones are met.
• Highlight blockers and manage associated risks.

Skills

Project Management

Jira

Confluence

Communication

Risk Management

Tools

Slack

Google

Job description

Opticore IT are currently searching for a Senior Project Manager to ensure that the activities defined by the Head of Cyber Risk and Resilience are tracked to completion. You will manage the project’s heartbeat—ensuring Jira is accurate, dependencies are flagged, and deadlines for critical events (like the 2026 World Cup) are met. You'll join our project and Programme Management Practice, based 2 days a week in the London area.

Opticore IT is a specialist Network Engineer and Project Management consultancy offering a wide variety of opportunities to work within fast-paced, challenging environments across our client base spanning multiple sectors including Finance, Broadcast Media, Telecommunications and more.

What you’ll be doing:

• Project Governance: Maintain the master project plan and the MVC Tracker. Coordinate fortnightly status meetings and prepare concise progress reports for senior stakeholders.
• Jira Management: Own the Jira environment and Confluence reporting ensuring all tasks (e.g., contract reviews, technical tests) have clear owners, due dates, and status updates.
• Action Tracking: Proactively chase workstream technical leads and external technical teams to ensure milestones are met.
• Risk and Dependency Management: Highlight “blockers”—specifically where one task (e.g., Identity/Okta plan documented) is preventing progress on another (e.g. Plan walkthroughs). Anticipate the risks and outline steps to manage them.
• Third-Party Coordination: Support the scheduling of reviews and testing windows with external suppliers (Redbee, BT, Arqiva, AWS).
• The MVC Tracker: Keeping the “Control Book” updated with relevant data supporting the project and highlighting gaps.
• Ready for 2026: Managing the countdown of tasks required for the World Cup “Look Alive” restoration goal.
• Test Coordination: Scheduling and documenting the outcomes of desktop rehearsals and “break-glass” protocol tests.

What you’ll bring:

• Proven track record as a Project Manager in a fast-paced corporate environment.
• High proficiency in Jira, Confluence, and other collaboration tools such as Slack and Google.
• A self-starter—comfortable chasing busy senior stakeholders for updates and holding people to deadlines.
• Able to take complex technical updates and simplify them into clear “Completed / In Progress / Blocked” status reports.

Diversity:

At OpticoreIT we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We actively recruit for an inclusive and diverse workforce and as such, want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.

We want you to feel empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made with your application or interview process, so, please speak to our recruitment team.