Programme Director – Infrastructure / Data Centres

We are working with a London based Financial Services client who are looking for an experienced Programme Director to lead them through an enterprise wide resilience programme around delivering a high profile co-location Data Centre.

Key Responsibilities

• Work alongside ExCo and set a clear 12-18 month vision, priorities and delivery plan aligned to strategic resilience objectives.
• Programme Director will be responsible for the technology implementation, supplier coordination, target operating model, operational readiness and the processes required to invoke and run the environment during a live event.
• Own the delivery roadmap and drive quarterly planning and delivery, ensuring strategic ambition is translated into sequenced, achievable outcomes.

Key Skills

• Target Operating Model Design experience, confidence shaping the people, process, governance and operational model around the technology.
• Proven track record of significant Infrastructure delivery and deployment experience at scale including direct data centre implementation experience
• Complex supplier leadership: the ability to direct major third parties and hold delivery partners to account across contractual and organisational boundaries.
• Strong leadership experience in complex organisations with a diverse range of stakeholders
• Previous experience of working with Critical National Infrastructure or similarly rigorous regulated environments
• Experience of leading matrix delivery teams and multiple Project Managers
• Previous experience of operating at or with Executive and Board level

The role is not suited to a generalist IT Programme Director whose experience is mainly in software delivery

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