Senior Tech Project Lead: Connected Vehicle & PMO Builder

Ocho People Ltd.; Ballymena; Hybrid; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working in Ballymena

Onsite parking

Job summary

Ocho People Ltd. is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to lead group-wide technology delivery, starting with a connected vehicle programme that integrates telematics, data and digital workstreams.

The role sits in Group Technology, reporting to the CIO with a matrix line into the CTO’s Office. You’ll steer multiple initiatives, including Salesforce harmonisation, and establish governance as the function grows toward a group PMO.

Qualifications

• 5+ years managing technical projects in IT, data or digital environments.
• Experience running several projects concurrently.
• Hands-on, end-to-end delivery with change adoption.
• Proficiency with planning, budgets, risk, dependencies, governance and reporting.
• Strong stakeholder management across business, executive and technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own technical projects and programmes end to end across Data, Digital and IT.
• Lead the connected vehicle programme, coordinating engineering, data and digital workstreams.
• Manage several technology initiatives at once, including Salesforce harmonisation.
• Plan, budget and resource projects, managing risk, issues and dependencies.
• Align business, executive and technical stakeholders behind a shared plan.
• Translate technical detail into clear options for senior leadership.
• Remove blockers and drive change through to adoption.
• Build templates, standards and lightweight governance for a new group delivery function.
• Grow the function towards a group PMO as further project managers join.
• Use AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude to speed up planning, documentation and reporting.

Skills

Delivery management

Technical project management

Stakeholder engagement

End-to-end delivery

Hands-on delivery

Education

Degree in technical/IT/data/business discipline

Tools

Salesforce

ChatGPT

Claude

Job description

Ocho People Ltd. is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to lead group-wide technology delivery, starting with a connected vehicle programme that integrates telematics, data and digital workstreams.

The role sits in Group Technology, reporting to the CIO with a matrix line into the CTO’s Office. You’ll steer multiple initiatives, including Salesforce harmonisation, and establish governance as the function grows toward a group PMO.