Azure Project Manager

We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead the day-to-day delivery of a large-scale VMware-to-Microsoft Azure migration programme. This is a senior delivery role requiring strong experience managing complex cloud transformation and migration projects, coordinating multiple technical workstreams, third-party suppliers and senior stakeholders. Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of a large-scale VMware-to-Azure migration programme.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, milestones, dependencies and migration schedules.
• Coordinate migration waves, ensuring workloads are successfully planned, sequenced and delivered into Azure.
• Own project governance, including RAID management, reporting, actions and escalation.
• Proactively identify delivery risks, dependencies and blockers and drive them through to resolution.
• Manage multiple technical and business workstreams across a complex programme environment.
• Coordinate subcontracted and third-party resources, ensuring delivery against agreed cost, quality and timescale objectives.
• Work closely with Azure/cloud architects, engineers, application teams and business stakeholders.
• Provide clear programme updates and communications to senior executives, customers and key stakeholders.
• Ensure project objectives remain aligned with wider business and third-party requirements.
• Coach and support junior Project Managers and wider delivery team members. Essential Experience
• Strong experience as a Senior Project Manager delivering large-scale technology transformation programmes.
• Proven delivery experience across Microsoft Azure and cloud migration programmes.
• Experience managing VMware-to-Azure, data centre-to-cloud or similar infrastructure migration programmes.
• Strong understanding of migration planning, workload sequencing, migration waves and technical dependencies.
• Excellent experience across governance, RAID, project planning, stakeholder management and executive reporting.
• Experience managing third-party suppliers and subcontracted technical resources.
• Strong customer-facing communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Microsoft Project – intermediate level or above.
• Jira – intermediate level or above. This role would suit a Senior Project Manager who combines strong programme governance with hands-on experience delivering complex Azure cloud migration and infrastructure transformation programmes. The role will be PAYE working inside IR35 so please only apply for this role if you are prepared to work on this basis and are resident in the UK.