Programme Manager - Data Centre Remediation

Job Title: Data Centre Programme Manager (Principal Consultant)

Location: City of London - 3 days per week
Duration: 6 month Fixed Term Contract (potential to extend)

Salary: c.£100,000 - day rate contractors considered
Start: ASAP

At Pace, our consultants genuinely care about the impact our work has on our customers and their customers alike. We are problem solvers' who call on our collective experience, knowledge and skills to support customers to access benefits early.

Our mission is to create environments that thrive for our customers; we enable this by providing transformation, process optimisation, and automation services, all with the aim of enabling our customers to harness human autonomy.

We are reimagining how transformation services are delivered, taking a human-centred approach, and our work is having a material impact on people's lives. If this resonates with you, we would love to hear from you.

Role:

We are seeking to hire an experienced Programme Manager with a background in Data Centre rationalisation to lead and deliver a complex programme focused on modernising and rationalising the organisation's global Data Centre infrastructure. This includes transitioning Legacy environments to modern platforms, consolidating physical and virtual assets, and enabling Cloud adoption strategies while ensuring minimal business disruption.

These roles demands strategic leadership and agility. You'll act as the bridge between diverse teams and senior stakeholders, demonstrating strategic thinking and problem-solving; risk management and decision-making under pressure and an ability to manage complex dependencies across multiple workstreams.

Key elements of the role include:

Programme Leadership:

• Define and manage the overall programme scope, objectives, and success criteria
• Develop and maintain programme plans, timelines, and budgets

Stakeholder Management:

• Engage with senior business and technology stakeholders to align programme outcomes with strategic objectives
• Provide regular updates and governance reporting to executive committees

Technical Delivery Oversight:

• Coordinate activities across infrastructure, networking, storage, and application teams
• Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and operational standards

Risk & Issue Management:

• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks related to migration, downtime, and data integrity

Vendor & Partner Management:

• Manage third-party suppliers for hardware, software, and migration services

Change Management:

• Drive organisational readiness and communication plans for impacted teams and users

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience managing large-scale Data Centre transformation programmes
• Strong understanding of infrastructure technologies (compute, storage, networking) and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or similar)
• Expertise in migration strategies, including workload assessment and application dependency mapping
• Familiarity with ITIL processes and service continuity planning
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Strong financial management and vendor negotiation experience

Desirable:

• Degree in IT, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Programme/Project Management certifications (eg, MSP, PRINCE2, PMP.
• Cloud certifications (Azure/AWS)

What's in it for you?

• An opportunity to join a high-growth, scale-up consulting firm making a material difference in how clients are served.
• Personal development focus with annual appraisals, development plans, and bi-weekly coaching conversations.
• Access to a personal training budget (subject to approval).

Compensation and Benefits:

• 25 days' annual leave, plus an extra day for your birthday
• Option to purchase up to 10 additional days of leave per year
• Reservist leave: up to 10 days paid
• AVIVA workplace pension scheme
• Save 30-60% on an electric car through The Electric Car Scheme
• Access to Pace's APM Corporate Partner benefits
• ADS Group Reward benefits
• Additional benefits available upon conversion to a permanent position

Your Pace team:

Harnessing Human Autonomy means putting human needs at the heart of system and process design.

At Pace, we help organisations align technology with human behaviour - designing systems that empower people, automate the routine, and unlock greater efficiency and innovation.

Imagine if you worked for a company that has integrity at its core and truly values its people, social responsibility, and the real-world impact of its work.

We recognise that we are only as good as our people. Apply today to discover the great things we're achieving together - and the fun we have doing it!