About our client:
Our client is a leader in professional services and consulting, providing a wide range of services including strategy, consulting, technology and systems integration, and operations to a range of clients across Government, Financial Services, Utilities and more.
About the Role:
This high-profile role is instrumental in leading and managing technology testing environment delivery across the program to support a high-profile, time-critical program focused on deploying and uplifting testing environments and integrating multiple application layers across a complex technology landscape.
As the Project Manager, you are the key point of contact for managing and coordinating environment delivery. You will work closely with Program Managers and senior stakeholders to maintain delivery stability while enabling agility in a fast-paced environment and ensuring rigorous governance, coordination, and impact assessment of all delivery requests.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the day-to-day management of technical project streams within a complex program, with a focus on test environment uplift
- Own and drive project planning, scheduling, budgeting, and execution in coordination with key stakeholders
- Manage cross-functional teams, including internal SMEs, external vendors, business analysts and solution engineers
- Ensure scope, timelines, and delivery risks are proactively identified, communicated, and mitigate
- Work collaboratively with program managers, project managers, solution architects, infrastructure leads, QA/test teams, and vendors to identify requirements, assess impacts and align delivery objectives
- Provide structured high-quality reporting to Program Managers on project health, risks, and outcomes
- Identify and track dependencies across multiple streams of work as well as external dependencies raised for the project/program
- Adapt project/program delivery to accommodate shifting priorities and business needs in a high-pressure environment
The successful candidate:
- Experience working in complex environments with a large number of applications requiring integration into existing systems (E.g. Data Platforms, APIs, upstream & downstream systems)
- Solid understanding of test environments management
- Exposure to Traditional, Agile and hybrid delivery methodologies
- Familiar with a variety of project delivery and collaboration tools (e.g. MS Project, Jira, Confluence)
- Proven experience as a Project Manager delivering complex technical projects within large enterprise transformation programs, preferably in banking or financial services
- Knowledge of project governance, delivery lifecycles, stakeholder engagement, and vendor management
- Ability to read and interpret technical documentation such as architecture diagrams and system flows
- Solid experience managing end-to-end project delivery uplifting and deploying new Infrastructure, onboarding applications, and integrating with existing services
- Experience working with internal teams and third-party vendors to facilitate and manage delivery
- Excellent proactiveness, stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to gather requirements, facilitate workshops and drive outcomes
- Confident working with technical stakeholders and translating between business and IT domains
- Provide structured and concise reporting to Program Managers and key stakeholders on RAG status, milestones, risks, issues and finances
- High attention to detail and organisational skills, comfortable managing multiple concurrent streams
- A collaborative team player with excellent communication, interpersonal skills and strong resilience
What's on offer?
This contract is available for an initial 6-month term with likely extension on a long-term project.
Located in Sydney, this role offers a hybrid working arrangement.
How to Apply:
Please upload your resume to apply. We will be in touch with further instructions for suitably skilled candidates. Please note that you will be required to complete selection criteria to complete your application for this role.
Call Katrina Gabriel on 0489 923 756 or email katrinag@whizdom.com.au for any further information.
Candidates will need to be willing to undergo pre-employment screening checks which may include, ID and work rights, security clearance verification and any other client requested checks.
