Job Description

Program Manager

• Key responsibilities
• Own the programm plan across Phases 0–3, including the overlapping phase structure and the milestone set (Gold SLA at Week 3, Operations pilot at Week 9, three systems at Gold by Week 16, KPI certification model by Week 18, eight systems at Gold by Week 22).
• Run the programm in line with PMO practice, cadence and templates, using a sprint-based delivery methodology.
• Own and actively work the RAID log; drive risk mitigation rather than merely recording risk.
• Manage the vendor delivery team's resourcing, utilisation and performance, and coordinate with the leadership, platform owners, data stewards and business-analyst QA resources.
• Own budget tracking and the T&M burn-down against the approved not-to-exceed, with early escalation of variance
• Chair and support the governance cadence: kickoff, weekly status, executive steering, design workshops, risk reviews and closeout.
• Produce weekly status reports, budget tracking reports, resource utilisation reports, milestone completion reports and executive steering updates.
• Manage dependencies on resources and on third parties, and hold the line on scope, assumptions and exclusions
• Own the transition into the ongoing DataOps service, including named product owners per Gold domain, and deliver the final project closure report.