Project Manager - Data in Slough

Sponsorship isn't being offered with this position, please only apply if you have the right to work in the UK.

Data Project Manager – Paying up to £130k

Complex data analysis. Ability to engage with the CDO team and hold them to account. Interface with BAs and cover all data requirements. Wealth Management experience helpful.

• Role Purpose
• Act as the integration point across technical and business domains, ensuring all workstreams remain aligned, dependencies are managed, and delivery remains focused on business outcomes.
• Translate strategic objectives into coordinated delivery plans, connecting people, technology, governance, and execution across the programme lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain integrated plans that align application development, infrastructure, cloud, data, security, integration, testing, and business readiness activities.
• Coordinate delivery across Engineering, Architecture, Product, Data, Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Operations, PMO, and third-party suppliers.
• Identify, manage, and resolve cross-functional dependencies, ensuring critical path activities remain on track.
• Ensure infrastructure, environments, integrations, data migration, operational readiness, and application delivery are planned and executed as a single programme.
• Establish programme governance, reporting, RAID management, financial oversight, and executive communications.
• Drive programme risk, issue, assumption, dependency, and change management, ensuring timely resolution and appropriate escalation.
• Facilitate decision-making across business and technical stakeholders, balancing delivery priorities, risks, cost, and business value.
• Coordinate release planning, implementation planning, service transition, and post-implementation review activities.
• Monitor programme health through delivery metrics, milestone tracking, dependency management, and benefits realisation.
• Drive continuous improvement in programme delivery practices, governance, planning, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Core Skills & Experience
• Extensive experience delivering complex technology programmes within large or enterprise organisations.
• Proven ability to coordinate multiple concurrent technical workstreams across applications, infrastructure, cloud, data, security, and operational services.
• Strong understanding of software delivery lifecycles, enterprise architecture, cloud platforms, infrastructure, networking, integrations, and data migration.
• Experience managing complex interdependencies across technology, business, suppliers, and operational teams.
• Strong programme governance, financial management, planning, forecasting, and executive reporting capabilities.
• Experience working within Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leaders, technical specialists, and business stakeholders.
• Experience managing third-party vendors, implementation partners, and managed service providers.
• Key Competencies
• Enterprise Systems Thinking
• Understands how applications, infrastructure, cloud, security, data, and operational services interact across the technology landscape.
• Programme Integration
• Brings together multiple technical and business workstreams into a single coordinated delivery plan.
• Dependency Management
• Proactively identifies, manages, and resolves delivery dependencies across teams, suppliers, and platforms.
• Delivery Leadership
• Maintains momentum across multiple delivery teams while balancing competing priorities and changing demands.
• Technical Awareness
• Possesses sufficient technical understanding to challenge, coordinate, and facilitate delivery across engineering, infrastructure, cloud, networking, and data domains.
• Stakeholder Leadership
• Builds trusted relationships and alignment across executive, business, and technical stakeholders.
• Decision Facilitation
• Enables timely, informed decisions by providing clear insight into programme status, risks, impacts, and options.
• Communication
• Delivers concise, audience-appropriate communications ranging from technical delivery forums to executive governance boards.
• Success Measures
• Cross-functional technology workstreams remain aligned throughout the programme lifecycle.
• Critical dependencies are identified early and actively managed to minimise delivery risk.
• Programme governance provides clear visibility of progress, risks, financial performance, and delivery confidence.
• Infrastructure, cloud, data, security, and application readiness are successfully coordinated to support seamless implementation.
• Strong stakeholder confidence demonstrated through effective leadership, transparency, and predictable delivery.
• Successful transition into operational service with minimal business disruption and achievement of planned business benefits.