technical project manager Edinburgh, Scotland
1825
Full Time
Edinburgh, Scotland
61447 - 46666 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Job Description
Job Title: Senior Technical Project Manager
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Edinburgh or London (with blended home working)
Reports to: Head of Delivery
At abrdn we empower our clients to plan, save and invest for their futures. Through the expertise, insight and innovation of our team, we aim to help clients create more ways for money to make an impact. We set our sights on giving them more confidence to achieve their goals, and more clarity about what they need next. And we focus on delivering outcomes that are more than just financial – by investing sustainably to build a better world.
About the team
Our Technical Enterprise Services (TES) team is at the heart of our business and responsible for developing and delivering our IT Strategy and IT business change, as well as maintaining the integrity and performance of our systems, infrastructure, and applications. Technology, specifically Cloud adoption and transformation is increasingly pivotal to the success of abrdn, and we aim to deliver both the innovation and responsiveness needed in today’s competitive and fast-changing investment and regulatory landscape.
About the role
In this exciting new key senior delivery role, as part of establishing our Cloud Engineering and Delivery Centre of Excellence function within Enterprise Services, the successful applicant will have the opportunity to lead and shape the modernisation of IT delivery within abrdn.
The Senior Technical Project Manager is responsible for the shaping and delivery of Cloud and Infrastructure IT delivery supporting abrdn’s domain change and transformation portfolios. Projects within the Technical Enterprise Services will encompass the likes of cloud transformation and adoption, infrastructure implementations, cross domain enablement and regulatory changes. The Senior Technical Project Manager will build relationships and engage with stakeholders across the business to understand the requirement of the change, formalise the project and the plan and drive the delivery to time, cost & quality.
The role will work closely with the Cloud Centre of Excellence team to facilitation PI planning workshops to construct plans, manage risks, issues & dependencies as well as the chairing of steering meetings with sponsors and key stakeholders to report on delivery progress, seek guidance and escalate issues.
Candidate requirements
- Apply best project management practice to complex initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business (including small portfolios)
- Experience of leading project teams
- Highly competent in using planning tools and experienced in implementing and operating financial control frameworks
- Proven ability to demonstrate a drive for results and accountability of outcomes and benefit realisation
- Proven ability to work in a primarily outsourced IT delivery environment and collaborate across multiple areas to achieve a common business or technical objective
- Interpersonal skills to influence and spur change, facilitate, and improve delivery performance
- Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations to various audiences, including project team, sponsors, and key stakeholders
Our Benefits
There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.
When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around, including 40 days annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount site amongst many others.
An inclusive way of working
Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you.
At abrdn we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home and other locations. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.
An inclusive culture
, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neuro-divergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability – please let us know, and we’ll be happy to help.We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.
If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.
1825
www.1825.pt
Lisbon, Portugal
Unknown / Non-Applicable
1 to 50 Employees
Company - Private
