Location: Edinburgh- 2 days a week on site.

Duration: 6 month initial contract with potential for extension.

Pay rate: Via Umbrella

IT Project Manager (Life Insurance)

Overview

We are seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to join a leading insurance organisation on an initial 6-month contract. The successful candidate will lead and coordinate multiple infrastructure and technology migration projects, ensuring seamless delivery while minimising business disruption.

This role requires a pragmatic, hands-on Project Manager with proven experience delivering complex migration programmes within regulated environments, ideally insurance or wider financial services.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of infrastructure and technology migration projects.
• Manage migration of on-premise file storage and network folders to enterprise shared drive and cloud-based solutions.
• Oversee physical hardware migration and decommissioning programmes, facilitating transitions from on-premise environments to cloud platforms.
• Drive shared drive and data migration initiatives, ensuring data integrity, security and business continuity.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams including Infrastructure, Cloud, Security, Architecture, Service Management and third-party vendors.
• Manage project plans, RAID logs, governance forums, reporting and stakeholder communications.
• Work closely with business users to understand requirements and plan migration activities with minimal operational impact.
• Ensure projects are delivered within agreed timelines, scope and budget.
• Identify and mitigate delivery risks, dependencies and issues proactively.
• Support change management and user adoption activities throughout migration programmes.

Essential Experience

• Proven experience as an IT Project Manager within Insurance or Financial Services.
• Demonstrable experience delivering:
• On-premise folder and file share migrations to enterprise shared drive solutions.
• Infrastructure and data migration projects.
• Physical hardware migration and cloud transformation initiatives.
• Shared drive and data storage migrations.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure, cloud technologies and enterprise environments.
• Experience managing multiple workstreams and senior stakeholder groups.
• Strong governance, budget management and reporting skills.
• Experience working within regulated environments.

Desirable Experience

• ServiceNow implementation, upgrade or migration experience.
• Experience working with Microsoft technologies including SharePoint, OneDrive and Azure.
• Knowledge of ITIL and Service Management best practices.
• Relevant Project Management certification (PRINCE2, PMP, AgilePM or equivalent).

Personal Attributes

• Pragmatic and delivery-focused approach.
• Resilient and able to operate effectively in complex environments.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication abilities.
• Comfortable challenging where required and driving outcomes.
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.