Job Description
Programme Manager - Legacy Decommissioning
12 Month Contract
Hybrid - once a week in the office
Day Rate - £511 inside IR35
Our life sciences client is seeking a Programme Manager to join them on a 12-month contract basis. This role will lead a high-impact programme to decommission a complex legacy system comprising multiple interdependent applications.
It is a major transformation initiative working across both the technology and business landscape to ensure seamless migration, system continuity, and minimal disruption to users.
Accountabilities:
* Programme Leadership: End-to-end planning, delivery, and governance of the legacy decommissioning programme, ensuring alignment with technical and business goals.
* Dependency Management: Map and manage complex inter-system dependencies. Develop and maintain an evolving delivery roadmap that enables staged decommissioning without impacting business continuity.
* Technical Coordination: Ensure that new capabilities (APIs, data models, mastering systems, etc.) are developed and deployed by the appropriate teams in time to replace and retire legacy components.
* Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with engineering squads, product teams, and business stakeholders to align delivery plans, resolve conflicts, and manage expectations.
* Communication & Change Management: Support the platform lead to create and execute a robust onboarding and communications plan to transition multiple teams gradually and effectively onto the new systems.
* Risk & Issue Management: Identify, track, and mitigate delivery and continuity risks across multiple teams and phases.
* Governance & Reporting: Provide regular reporting, highlighting progress, risks, and decision points.
Experience Required:
* Proven experience leading complex IT transformation or decommissioning programmes with multiple delivery teams
* Strong understanding of enterprise IT systems, data flows, APIs, and legacy-to-modern system transitions
* Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership skills
* Skilled in dependency management across distributed systems and teams
* Experience creating phased implementation plans to support non-disruptive change
* Familiarity with agile delivery methodology and tools: Scaled Agile: Scrum of scrums, Big Room Planning, JIRA, Confluence
* Experience in Life Science and/or Research and Development environment preferable, but not essential
To apply for this position please submit your CV.