Application Demise Infrastructure Project Manager - Banking

Job Title: Infrastructure Project Manager - Application Demise
Location: London (3 days onsite mandatory)
Salary/Rate: £500-520 per day
Start Date: June
Job Type: 6 month initial contract w/ scope to extend

Company Introduction

This role requires proven delivery experience in banking or financial services environments, with a strong background in end-to-end infrastructure, data, and network migration projects, especially application demise.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

The successful candidate will take full accountability for the planning and delivery of complex platform transitions.

• Lead end-to-end delivery of infrastructure and platform migration projects, from initiation through to transition and handover into BAU.
• Own and manage platform, data, and network migration activities, ensuring minimal disruption to live services.
• Coordinate and manage cross-functional technical teams, including infrastructure, network, security, applications, and third-party vendors.
• Engage confidently with senior stakeholders, providing clear reporting on progress, risks, issues, and delivery outcomes.
• Drive alignment between business objectives and technical delivery, translating complex technical concepts into business-relevant language.
• Ensure all migrations are delivered to agreed scope, quality, budget, and timelines.
• Support continuous improvement across delivery practices and contribute to wider transformation objectives

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Proven experience as an Infrastructure Delivery / Project Manager within banking or financial services.
• Strong background delivering platform migration projects, including at least two of the following:
  • Infrastructure migrations
  • Data migrations
• Network or connectivity migrations
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex technical change in regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of change control, risk management, and governance processes.
• Experience working with large, enterprise-scale technology estates.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including experience engaging at senior leadership level.
• Track record of delivering projects to defined deadlines and timescales.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams concurrently.

Desirable Skills/Experience
Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client:

• Experience with OpenShift Virtualization or container-based platforms.
• Familiarity with Tier 1 banking environments.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

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