Senior Project Manager (SC Cleared)

Network IT is currently recruiting for Senior Project Managers to join our client in Somerset on a 12 month initial contract.
We are recruiting for multiple experienced Project Managers, to support a major transformation portfolio within a high-profile government organisation. Successful candidates will lead delivery across key strategic programmes including cloud migration, digital product roadmap enhancement, and enterprise technology upgrades in infrastructure and data.
Current workstreams include:
- Data Transformation (on-prem to cloud migration),
- Digital and Data standards, for product roadmap improvements
- Technology infrastructure modernisation including hybrid cloud, application upgrades, and containerisation (on-prem to cloud, and on-prem to on-prem)
Role: Senior Project Manager
Location: 2–3 days per week onsite in Somerset
Rate: £640 per day
Contract: 12 months
Status: Inside IR35
Clearance: SC Clearance required from outset
Eligibility: UK Nationals only (No dual nationals)
PLEASE NOTE: Candidates must hold active SC Clearance at application stage, and must be a British National.
Key Skills and Experience
- End-to-end project management delivery within complex programmes, ideally within a government or defence space
- Utilisation of government delivery standards, such as the GDS and DDaT frameworks
- Strong delivery planning, milestone tracking and governance management
- Time, cost and stakeholder management across multiple workstreams
- Monthly project reporting and highlight reporting to senior leadership
- Benefits realisation and delivery decision support
- Risk and issue management across people, budgets and suppliers
- Cloud migration programme experience - Exposure to hybrid cloud, infrastructure upgrades and containerisation projects
- Knowledge of Azure and some AWS environments for infrastructure / cloud workstreams