Senior Infrastructure Delivery Manager in London

Senior Infrastructure Delivery Manager - Storage Migration

9-Month Contract - Inside IR35 - market rate

London based - hybrid working - 3 days a week onsite

Banking sector

Role Purpose

To lead and deliver a complex enterprise storage migration project involving multiple technology platforms, application teams and business stakeholders. The role will be accountable for project governance, planning, execution, stakeholder engagement, vendor management and successful migration delivery.

The successful candidate will possess strong delivery management capabilities alongside a practical understanding of enterprise infrastructure environments, storage technologies, Windows and Linux platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Project Delivery

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of the Storage Migration Project.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, milestones and critical path activities.
• Establish and manage migration waves, cutover plans and implementation schedules.
• Track progress against agreed deliverables, timelines and project objectives.
• Manage project governance, reporting and steering committee updates.
• Ensure risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies are actively managed throughout the project lifecycle.

Stakeholder and Application Engagement

• Work closely with application owners and business stakeholders to understand application dependencies and migration requirements.
• Coordinate application testing, validation and business acceptance activities.
• Build strong relationships across Infrastructure, Operations, Architecture, Security and Application teams.
• Act as the primary point of coordination between technical delivery teams, vendors and project stakeholders.
• Produce clear and concise communications suitable for both technical and executive audiences.
• Chair project meetings, workshops and planning sessions, ensuring actions are driven through to completion.

Migration Planning and Execution

• Coordinate migration waves, change activities and implementation schedules.
• Ensure migration activities are fully documented and approved through established governance processes.
• Drive readiness reviews, migration rehearsals and cutover planning.
• Coordinate rollback planning and ensure contingency arrangements are in place.
• Monitor migration execution and ensure issues are escalated and resolved promptly.
• Work closely with Storage, Wintel, Linux, Network and Database teams to coordinate delivery activities.

Vendor and Partner Management

• Manage third-party suppliers, professional services organisations and technology vendors.
• Coordinate vendor deliverables and ensure commitments are achieved.
• Facilitate technical workshops and planning activities involving multiple suppliers.
• Hold suppliers accountable for delivery milestones and agreed outcomes.

Essential Experience

The successful candidate must demonstrate:

• Previous enterprise storage migration experience (mandatory).
• Experience delivering large-scale SAN, NAS or enterprise storage migration projects within production environments.
• Proven experience planning and executing migration waves, cutovers, rollback activities and application validation.
• Demonstrable success delivering complex infrastructure transformation or migration projects.
• Significant experience coordinating activities across infrastructure, application and business teams.
• Strong dependency management, scheduling and critical path planning skills.
• Experience managing third-party vendors and professional services organisations.
• Experience operating within highly regulated or controlled environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Proven ability to operate in a hands-on delivery role, actively driving actions and coordinating technical teams.
• Strong experience working with application owners and business stakeholders to manage migration dependencies and minimise operational risk.

Technical Knowledge

Whilst this is not a technical lead role, candidates must possess a working knowledge of:

• Enterprise storage platforms.
• SAN and storage networking concepts.
• Storage replication and disaster recovery technologies.
• VMware virtualised environments.
• Windows Server infrastructure.
• Linux platforms.
• Enterprise backup and recovery solutions.
• Change management and release processes.
• Application dependency mapping and migration planning.

Desirable Experience

• Financial Services experience.
• Experience delivering infrastructure refresh or transformation projects.
• Experience working with Dell, Hitachi, Huawei, NetApp or equivalent enterprise storage platforms.
• Experience managing large-scale server, platform or data centre migration projects.
• PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMP or equivalent delivery/project management certification.

Disclaimer

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.