Strategic IT Transformation Lead

Coralisle Group; Hamilton; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Coralisle Group Ltd. in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead complex technology and business change initiatives from initiation through transition to operations.

You will manage integrated plans, budgets, risks, and governance while coordinating cross-functional teams, vendors, and stakeholders. Ideal candidates have 5–7 years in a similar role, PMP/PRINCE2, and experience in insurance or financial services.

Qualifications

• PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent certification preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 5–7 years of experience delivering complex technology and business change initiatives.
• Experience in insurance or regulated financial services environment preferred.
• Strong command of predictive, agile, and hybrid delivery approaches.
• Awareness of AI tools and their considerations (data quality, privacy, security).
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and communicate clearly across technical and nontechnical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own project initiation, scope, business case inputs, success measures, delivery approach, milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria with the sponsor and business owner.
• Develop and maintain integrated delivery plans across business processes, technology, data, testing, training, cutover, and operational readiness; adjust sequencing when constraints change.
• Lead cross-functional teams and external partners, assign accountable owners, remove impediments, and hold workstream leads to agreed commitments.
• Manage implementation, testing, migration, drive project to completion, escalates resource, capacity and capability, and handover with documented acceptance and a clear transition to support and benefits ownership.
• Establish proportionate project governance, decision rights, reporting cadence, and documentation in line with the IT PMO framework.
• Maintain transparent RAID and decision logs; escalates material threats early with options, impacts, and a recommended course of action.
• Control scope through impact assessment and formal change decisions covering cost, schedule, risk, quality, and benefits.
• Ensure security, privacy, compliance, architecture, procurement, and operational controls are engaged at the right points in the lifecycle; retain evidence for audit and oversight.
• Prepare and manage project budgets, forecasts, resource demand, and actual spend; explain variances and recommend corrective action.
• Coordinate vendor deliverables, dependencies, service obligations, and acceptance against contracts and statements of work; raise performance concerns promptly.
• Build working relationships with executive sponsors, business leaders, IT teams, vendors, and impacted users across jurisdictions.
• Provide concise, decision-oriented status reports and facilitate steering committees, workshops, and issue resolutions.
• Partner with business owners and change leads on communications, training, adoption, and measurable benefits realization.
• Coach project team members and contribute lessons learned, standards, and continuous improvement across the IT PMO.

Skills

PMP/PRINCE2

Stakeholder management

Budget management

Risk management

Hybrid delivery

AI awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Business or related field

Job description

Coralisle Group Ltd. in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead complex technology and business change initiatives from initiation through transition to operations.

You will manage integrated plans, budgets, risks, and governance while coordinating cross-functional teams, vendors, and stakeholders. Ideal candidates have 5–7 years in a similar role, PMP/PRINCE2, and experience in insurance or financial services.