Program Manager

Programme Manager – Application Migration & Virtualisation | Financial Services

My client, a leading organisation within Financial Services, is looking for an experienced Programme Manager – Application Migration & Virtualisation to lead a major enterprise-wide transformation programme.

📍 Location: Remote with occasional London travel

⏱️ Contract: 12 months

💷 Rate: £850 per day, Inside IR35

The Role

You will lead a complex, enterprise-wide application migration programme, managing multiple technical workstreams and overseeing the transition of a large application estate while ensuring minimal business disruption.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end application migration programmes from strategy and planning through to execution, cutover, hypercare and BAU transition
• Manage migration waves covering application discovery, dependency mapping, rationalisation, rehosting, replatforming and modernisation
• Drive datacentre exit and wider infrastructure transformation initiatives
• Establish and maintain strong programme governance, reporting and controls
• Lead cross-functional teams across Architecture, Infrastructure, Engineering, Security, Operations, PMO and Business functions
• Manage third-party suppliers, system integrators and technology partners
• Ensure successful delivery of business-critical migrations within complex enterprise environments
• Manage risks, dependencies, milestones and delivery across multiple concurrent workstreams

Experience Required

• Proven experience delivering large-scale application migration programmes, ideally across estates of 500–5,000+ applications
• Strong knowledge of virtualisation technologies including VMware/vSphere, NSX, vSAN, Citrix, Hyper-V and/or Nutanix
• Experience delivering cloud migration programmes across Azure, AWS, GCP and/or hybrid environments
• Strong background in infrastructure transformation and datacentre migration/exit programmes
• Experience with application modernisation and migration factory models
• Proven delivery experience across production cutovers, operational resilience and 24x7 environments
• Excellent senior stakeholder management skills within complex organisations
• Financial Services, Banking, Insurance or another regulated-sector background would be highly desirable

If this opportunity looks suitable, please reply with an updated CV or email it to [email protected].