About the Role
Join us and be part of a mission-driven, independent publisher. You'll work with a diverse group of people who share a passion for empowering researchers, educators, and institutions to shape the future. Sage is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and library resources with a growing range of technologies to enable discovery, access, and engagement.
This role is responsible for leading, supporting, maintaining, reporting and the successful delivery of multiple concurrent infrastructure-focused projects for the Technology department.
Responsibilities
•Assume ownership of the full project development lifecycle, the business processes and related systems being affected.
•Assume responsibility for delivering the entire scope of multiple infrastructure-focused projects within time and budgetary constraints.
•Manage a yearly project budget of £75k – 100k and support delivery of initiatives with overall investment values exceeding this amount.
•Translate senior management vision and Project Brief into appropriate formal project documents.
•Work closely and communicate regularly with stakeholders, Project Managers, Programme Directors and Executive Sponsor(s) across Engineering, Architecture, Security, Product and the Business to ensure initiatives are delivered successfully whilst maintaining appropriate governance, risk management and stakeholder engagement.
•Responsible for ensuring that any external Project Managers deliver the project goals within agreed budget and timetable.
•Lead the planning, governance and delivery of infrastructure, cloud, workplace technology and operational resilience initiatives, ensuring dependencies, risks and technical governance activities are actively managed throughout the project lifecycle.
•Champion project methodology and documentation standards, ensuring that all documentation is updated clearly and accurately.
•Adopt and ensure continuous improvement techniques are applied to all aspects of the project.
•Ensure confidentiality on all projects is maintained at all times.
Requirements
•PRINCE2/PMI qualified, or similarly qualified.
•Experienced in IT Project Management within a similarly sized global company.
•Experienced in delivering complex technology and infrastructure projects with budgets exceeding £500k.
•Experienced in cloud and infrastructure transformation, including Azure platform services, Azure Landing Zones, and cloud migrations.
•Experienced in leading large-scale infrastructure projects, including datacentre migrations, disaster recovery, backup modernisation, and infrastructure resilience.
•Skilled at bringing architecture, security, engineering, and vendor teams together to deliver complex initiatives.
•Highly organised and comfortable managing multiple projects at once.
•Detail-oriented, with excellent organisational skills.
•A strong communicator who can engage effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
Conditions
No conditions stated in the posting.
