Lead Integration Project Manager

London – Hybrid 9 month contract

Job Description Summary

The purpose of the Lead Integrator is to coordinate dependencies between the platform and stakeholders external to the platform such as other platforms, Group Executive Functions and 3rd parties. This may include coordinating complex and high-risk implementations. The Lead Integrator sits at Platform-level and covers both business and technology change.

Role Responsibilities:

• Establishes pivotal integration points across Labs/Platforms and effectively communicates these integration points to relevant stakeholders.
• Develops the sequence for integration related tasks in collaboration with Lab Leadership and aligned to the Lab backlog.
• Catalogues and manages dependencies between the platform and other teams.
• Works with stakeholders outside of the platform to ensure interlock to enable the platform to deliver at pace.
• Identifies blockers to delivery and where possible mitigates/resolves, escalating to product owner(s)/platform leadership where required.
• Manages suppliers (3rd Party), providing oversight and managing underperformance.
• Manages complex and high-risk implementations requiring integration between multiple parties (internal/external) to ensure safe delivery.
• Coordinates the integration process and/or implementation events across shared infrastructure (e.g. Upgrading the Mainframe); leads on the SI process, coordinating parties to get the change over the line.
• Provides expertise (not content) for governance activity owned by the Product Owner, e.g. PRIA, for change across multiple programmes.
• Manages output delivery for a substantial operational department by leading others.
• Develops innovative solutions by integrating and analysing complex and diverse information sources.
• Coordinates across multiple teams to develop medium-term and/or long-term work schedules that help the organisation achieve its priorities and fulfil its business plans.
• Uncovers emerging issues and/or needs and identifies potential causes, related issues, key stakeholders and barriers.
• Manages important client relationships with guidance from senior colleagues or oversees relationship management with a group of more transactional clients and customers.
• Makes sure that a portfolio of suppliers are delivering required levels of service while reporting to senior colleagues.
• Assists in the design and implementation of a compliance programme while ensuring adherence to regulatory and compliance standards by liaising with the regulator and/or supervises the activities of a regulatory/compliance team.
• Sets medium term objectives and takes responsibility for implementing a team's performance management systems with guidance from senior colleagues.
• Takes responsibility for implementing a team's formal development framework with guidance from senior colleagues, while informally coaching others throughout the organisation in area of expertise and pursuing and investing in opportunities for own personal development.
• Acts as a senior source of professional expertise.
• Manages and delivers required outcomes for a portfolio of contracts and negotiates service level agreements while planning, coordinating and supervising activities related to major contracts.

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