Technology Project Manager

A major rail organisation is currently recruiting a Project manager for an important technology upgrade project. This is a 4 month contract, based out of Milton Keynes. Duties will include managing project teams (including external System Integrators), to ensure deliverables are attained to time, cost and quality, ensuring governance is adhered to. The project manager will also be stakeholder managing throughout the organisation to ensure critical upgrades to bring some critical systems back into support. Successful candidate will have significant large IT project management experience, either application development or infrastructure. Experience of managing third party suppliers would be required, knowledge of software engineering life cycles, experience of project planning tools and critical path management, ability to manage commercial and contractual issues and ability to drive increased value from suppliers. Formal project management qualifications such as MSP, APMP, Agile or Prince2 would also be required. We have a fair and comprehensive selection procedure. It is our policy that there should be equal opportunity for and no discrimination against applicants on the grounds of gender, race, religion or belief, nationality, colour, pregnancy and maternity, sexual orientation, disability, age, marriage and civil partnership, union or non-union membership, socio-economic background or being a part-time or fixed term worker