Contractor - Senior IT Project Manager
Location: UK (Agile) Duration: 6-9 Months
IR35 Status: Outside IR35 (Inside IR35 or FTC options also considered)
Deliverables:
Technical Design & Integration
- Deliver approved functional and technical design documentation for integrations across ERP, Data Platform and applications (Kyriba, Clearwater, Anaplan, SAP Concur, Snowflake, claims ingestion).
Complete Architecture Board reviews and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
- Produce end to end source to target mappings covering data flows, transformation logic and middleware integrations.
- Secure formal sign off from IT Security, Information Security, Data Office and key business/technology stakeholders.
- Deliver environment and infrastructure requirements and a Base Architecture Document defining integration patterns, standards and target state architecture.
Vendor & Contract Management
- Execute and manage all vendor SOWs and contracts within programme timelines.
- Ensure SOWs include required non functional controls (security, resiliency, performance, support).
- Support commercial negotiations with Procurement and Legal.
- Establish vendor governance, performance reporting, issue escalation and remediation tracking.
Implementation & Testing
- Coordinate integration deployments across development, test, staging and production environments.
- Oversee build activities, unit testing and technical validation with third party teams.
- Ensure availability of test data for SIT, UAT, NFT and OAT.
- Manage all testing phases, defect resolution and retesting.
- Achieve production readiness and support controlled go live.
Governance, Documentation & Communication
- Maintain integrated project plans, resource plans, RAID logs and dependency tracking.
- Deliver accurate programme reporting, governance updates and executive papers.
- Produce high quality steering packs, minutes, action logs and decision registers.
- Ensure effective stakeholder engagement across Business, Finance, Data, Technology, Risk, Compliance and Procurement.
- Drive proactive risk, issue and dependency management to support delivery timelines
Who we are:
We are a trusted global re/insurance group and the leading provider of retrospective solutions, with specialist underwriting capabilities. We help our clients manage risk, unlock capital and create the financial freedom to grow. With operations across the world’s major insurance hubs and a global network of close to 800 talented professionals, we bring expertise and fresh thinking to some of the industry’s biggest challenges.