project manager

project manager Warwick, West Midlands, England

Kyndryl
Full Time Warwick, West Midlands, England 52400 - 40720 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

Who We Are
Kyndryl is a market leader that thinks and acts like a start-up. We design, build, manage, and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. So why work at Kyndryl? We are always moving forward – always pushing ourselves to go further in our efforts to build a more equitable, inclusive world for our employees, our customers, and our communities.

The Role
Our Project Managers are restless for innovation. They are at the edge of technology, changing the way our customers implement business solutions.

Your role will be to lead the project management of our Application Modernisation projects for our clients. These are exciting, complex, transformational projects that involve the modernisation of applications and infrastructure (move to cloud).
If you want to join a tech company that has a host of exciting projects and customers waiting for you to work with them to solve complex transformation puzzles through technology, then apply to Kyndryl today.
What’s in it for you?
It’s an exciting time to join Kyndryl Consult, the growth engine for Kyndryl. We accelerate transformation for our customers by deploying our consultants and technical specialists on high impact assignments which align technology to business outcomes – always underpinned by our decades of deep engineering expertise, and intimacy with our customers’ technology and business. And we invest in our people, not only through learning, training, and career development, but also through the flexible working practices and stellar benefits that help you grow and progress long-term.
And we give back – from planting 90,000 trees in our first 3 months as part of our One Tree Planted initiative, to the Corporate Social Responsibility and Environment, Social and Governance practices embedded within everything we do. We are committed to powering human progress in an ethical, sustainable way.
  • You will work closely with our Clients, our Kyndryl teams, our cloud partners, and our 3rd party service providers.
  • You will join the Kyndryl Architect Profession, working closely with other Kyndryl Architects, Project Managers and technical subject matter experts.
  • You will create High-Level Designs and participate in Design Authorities to create the solutions that drive our Clients forward.
Who you are
Are you an experienced Project Manager confident in working with clients, internal project teams, and a wide range of external stakeholders? Do you have a desire to lead, challenge, and succeed by taking responsibility for the project management of large, complex technology projects?
Key areas of responsibility include:
  • Experience and responsibility for multiple large, complex projects with greater impact to the enterprise.
  • Responsible for assembling project plans and teamwork assignments, directing and monitoring work efforts, identifying resource needs, performing quality review; and escalating functional, quality, and timeline issues appropriately.
  • Responsible for tracking key project milestones and adjusting project plans and/or resources to meet the project deliverables within assigned timing and funds.
  • Coordinates communication with all areas of the enterprise that impacts the scope, budget, risk and resources of the work effort being managed.
  • Engage with key stakeholders to insure alignment on expectations and deliverables.
  • Possess extensive knowledge and expertise in the use of project management methodologies and tools, resource management practices and change management techniques.
  • Agile mind-set and familiar with Agile Project Management principles
  • Proven success in coaching, leading, motivating and developing team members.
  • Managing application modernisation projects, developing detailed project plans, and providing metrics for reporting.
  • Responsible for providing overall direction, coordination, and completion of all technical deliverables
  • Ensure overall governance of Technical Solutions throughout the Application Lifecycle Management.
  • Works in tandem with the Transformation Owners to secure understanding of the desired requirements by the business, and then works with the team of Managers and Leads to translate priorities and deliverables.
  • Coordinate project activities amongst the functional and technical team members consultants
  • Provides project management expertise and leads key project work streams, working with the full project life cycle, following project Governance processes
  • Scope, plan and manage projects through the entire life cycle, ensuring delivery to time, cost and quality
  • Establish and maintain risk assessment to identify and assess the material risks that arise in their area of responsibility
  • Identify and evaluate project risks and issues and devise and implement effective mitigation strategies.
  • Ensure a smooth transition between Project team and BAU team post migration/ project completion.

Apply today to widen your technology aperture, customer projects, and to talk with us, to find the best opportunity that matches your next career move.
What else is in it for you?
In joining Kyndryl you will work for a company that invests in your future and join a team culture that amplifies learning and development agility. Kyndryl has a flexible working policy offering a number of options from reduced hours, or job share, to home working. These ensure a better balance and improved flexibility both inside and outside of work for you. You can discuss our flexible working options with our managers when you apply. And don’t forget to ask about our Summertime Flexible Fridays!

Plus, we offer a Flexible Reward benefits scheme, where you can personalize your benefit rewards. Our excellent employee benefits range from medical and dental, to employer contribution pension, buying vacation days, cycle to work, childcare vouchers and 1000’s of online or high street discounts.

Who You Are
  • In-depth knowledge and repeated experience of leading large and complex application modernization projects
  • Strong client and 3rd party stakeholder management skills.
  • Understanding of application modernization and development processes and methodologies, and the types of tools and technologies to enable these transformations.
  • Experience with MS Project for the creation and maintenance of project plans.
  • Experience in managing cloud migration or modernization projects (e.g. migrating workloads to Microsoft Azure Cloud / AWS / Google / other cloud providers).
  • Completion of recognized project management training, or professional certification (e.g. PMP/PMI, Prince II).

Being You
Diversity is a whole lot more than what we look like or where we come from, it’s how we think and who we are. We welcome people of all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. But we’re not doing it single-handily: Our Kyndryl Inclusion Networks are only one of many ways we create a workplace where all Kyndryls can find and provide support and advice. This dedication to welcoming everyone into our company means that Kyndryl gives you – and everyone next to you – the ability to bring your whole self to work, individually and collectively, and support the activation of our equitable culture. That’s the Kyndryl Way.

What You Can Expect
With state-of-the-art resources and Fortune 100 clients, every day is an opportunity to innovate, build new capabilities, new relationships, new processes, and new value. Our employee learning hub gives you access to the best learning in the industry to receive certifications and accreditations, including Microsoft University, AWS Cloud Center of Excellence, Udemy, and the Harvard Business Review. Through our company-wide volunteering and giving platform, you can donate, start fundraisers, volunteer, and search over 2 million non-profit organizations. At Kyndryl, we invest heavily in you! We want you to succeed so that together, we will all succeed.

project manager
Kyndryl

www.kyndryl.com/careers
New York, United States
Martin Schroeter
Unknown / Non-Applicable
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Information Technology Support Services
2021
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