Project Manager Platform Engineer (Azure)

Technical Project Manager - Azure Platform Project Manager Reporting to the Director of Azure Engineering, this role is responsible for managing internal complex projects that involves multiple stakeholders across the business beyond Cloud Productivity and Engineering. This will involve working with technical leads, engineering leads, scrum teams, other Project managers and stakeholders. In addition to the project related activities the expectation is that this role will also act in line with the agile leads as a resource and demand manager. Helping the organisation balance the demand of strategic project deliverables as well as business as usual activities. The role will act as the gate keeper for all internal Azure Engineering Projects. Key Responsibilities o Direct project management of a large-scale, complex projects that will involve multiple internal stakeholders. o Ensure high quality project reporting via programme management tools conforms to LSEG Group standards. o Develop the project charter, integrated project plan, resource plan, contingency plan, and related project management artefacts, aligning this with Azure agile squads for delivery and enablement. o Evaluate trade-offs between project size and complexity, cost, urgency, risk, and stakeholder value. o Manage detailed plans across the critical path to deliverance of project objectives, engaging with stakeholders and critically assessing requirements. o Anticipate issues and delays, and evaluate trade-offs between project size and complexity, cost (Internal Resource Costs), urgency, risk, and stakeholder value, effectively assessing and resolving high priority project risks. o Define and report on project progress and achievement of project milestones, regularly updating key and senior stakeholders on project status. o Continually manage project dependencies, ensuring smooth and timely delivery of the key milestones o Identify areas for methodological improvement and implements changes. o Validate financial forecasts and provide on-going reconciliation of resources and other related project expenditures. o Partner with business sponsors to define success metrics and criteria. o Assess and resolve all high priority project risks as they are encountered. o Ensure projects comply with LSEG Group standards of Project Methodology o Continually update relevant business stakeholders of project status and periodically publish project status reports. o Demonstrates strategic allocation and reallocation of resources within and across projects/programmes based on business insights and team capability. o Ensure all projects meet success parameters and ROI targets stated in the business case. o Ensure end results are of the highest calibre with a clearly articulated scope and quantifiable business benefit. o Act as Azure Engineering PoC for resource demand across the business, included but not limited to resources allocation, hiring and onboarding of new FTE and Vendor resources, interlock into business level financial management. Governance and Risk Management o Responsible for facilitating and chairing regular project meetings, and follow-up with project team members as required. o Responsible for the project wide implementation of processes, policies, and best-practice for change management where appropriate, ensuring (and measuring) embedment, adoption and effectiveness. o Preparation, collation, and distribution of project status reports, ad hoc presentations, and reporting (including executive and senior management reporting). o Ensure governance procedures are adhered to, for example: o All project artefacts maintained throughout the project lifecycle (plans, resourcing profiles, cost plans, benefits schedules, RAID items, Change Requests and status reports) are up to date, accurate and follow group quality standards. o Projects adhere to the change framework, use Group standard templates and are subject to the correct stage gate procedures throughout the project lifecycle. o Adhere to the planning standards and process to ensure transparency on key deliverables and dependencies so that delivery can be tied to cost. Communications o Formulate data-driven insights to support negotiations and effectively persuade diverse stakeholders, driving alignment towards shared objectives. o Proactively and effectively manages diverse stakeholder groups across the project or programme lifecycle, successfully differentiating the approach and communications to address stakeholder needs. o Maintains collaborative and trusting relationships with stakeholders, effectively overcoming challenges and positioning alternatives to move the project or programme forward. o Accountable for project level communications Key Behaviours Major Challenges (The challenges inherent in the role that require a continual test of the role holder's abilities) o Ability to balance multiple projects, making strategic decisions on time, quality, and cost to deliver complex activities. o Continuously adopt a pragmatic, flexible and responsive approach. o Maintain constructive and supportive working relationships with stakeholders across the group. o Apply tools and processes to effectively identify and quantify project-level risks, proactively communicating their impact with stakeholders. Management of Risk o Continually reassess the operational and project level risks by ensuring all actions take account of the likelihood of risks, including operational risks, occurring. o The role acts as a risk mitigating function by monitoring the delivery risks across the project and ensuring these are adequately managed o Takes positive action to reduce the impact and probability of project-level risks, escalating where necessary. Candidate Profile / Key Skills Essential o Strong planning, organisational, and coaching skills o Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and the proven ability to work effectively with all organisational levels. o Excellent at managing and influencing a wide network of stakeholders, including senior management, who can influence and build relationships. o Willing and able to challenge customers and stakeholders to better understand their needs. o Expert knowledge of Azure cloud transformations and migrations. o Knowledge of technology estates (On-Premises and Cloud) and technologies desirable. o Excellent documentation skills; ability to create high quality steering committee materials o More than 5 years of project or programme experience o Educated to degree level or equivalent. Preferred o Global experience - working successfully with teams in multiple locations simultaneously. o Background in working across several different sectors both business and IT related projects. o Experience in regulated environments. About London Stock Exchange Group London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is a diversified international exchange Group that sits at the heart of the world's financial community. The Group can trace its history back to 1801. The Group operates a broad range of international equity, bond and derivatives markets, including London Stock Exchange; Borsa Italiana; MTS, Europe's leading fixed income market; and the Pan-European equities and derivatives platform, Turquoise. Through its markets, the Group offers international business, and investors, unrivalled access to Europe's capital markets. Post trade and risk management services are a significant and growing part of the Group's business operations. LSEG operates CC&G, the Rome headquartered CCP and Monte Titoli, the significant European settlement business, selected as a first wave T2S participant. The Group is also a majority owner of leading multi-asset global CCP, LCH.Clearnet. The Group offers its customers an extensive range of real-time and reference data products, including Sedol, Unavista, Proquote and RNS, as well as access to over 200,000 international equity, bond and alternative asset class indices, through LSEG's world leading index provider, FTSE. London Stock Exchange Group is also a leading developer of high performance trading platforms and capital markets software. In addition to the Group's own markets, over 30 other organisations and exchanges around the world use the Group's MillenniumIT trading, surveillance and post trade technology. Headquartered in London, United Kingdom with significant operations in Italy, France, North America and Sri Lanka, the Group employs approximately 5000 people. Assignment Specific Information The assignment is to oversee the build out of Cloud technologies and the migration of applications to the cloud. The candidate must have an understanding of Cloud Service Providers and a track record of migrating applications using CI/CD pipelines. A modest technical understanding of containers, cloud technology, CI/CD pipelines and application transformation is required. The candidate must be able to measure the temperature of the project working with lead engineers and customers and ensure co-ordination of multiple workstreams meet the goals of the organisation.

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