Technical Project Manager

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Technical Project Manager

Whitehall Resources require a Technical Project Manager to work with a key client on a 6 month initial contract.

*This role will require on site work in Sheffield 3 days per week.

*Inside IR35.

Technical Project Manager

Role Purpose:
The Technical Project Manager is responsible for establishing and embedding an Engineering Practice across multiple technology platforms, driving organisational change, capability uplift, and consistency of engineering standards.
The role sits at the intersection of technology, operating model design, and change execution. It requires strong software engineering literacy to work credibly with engineers and architects, combined with proven experience leading organisation‑wide change initiatives within complex, matrixed environments.
The primary focus is not hands‑on delivery of a single system, but the set‑up, maturation, and adoption of an Engineering Practice, including governance, standards, ways of working, tooling alignment, and talent capability.

Key Responsibilities:
* Engineering Practice Set‑Up & Evolution:
– Lead the establishment of an Engineering Practice across multiple platforms (e.g. application, cloud, data, integration), defining scope, purpose, and success measures.
– Partner with CTO leadership, Engineering Leads, and Architects to design and embed practice structures, including forums, communities of practice, and decision‑making models.
– Define and coordinate the rollout of engineering standards, patterns, and best practices, ensuring alignment to enterprise architecture and platform strategies.
– Drive consistency in software engineering ways of working, balancing standardisation with platform‑specific needs.
* Organisational Change & Adoption:
– Develop and execute a change and adoption strategy to embed the Engineering Practice into day‑to‑day delivery and platform teams.
– Assess current state maturity and identify capability gaps across engineering disciplines.
– Plan and manage change interventions including communications, engagement, training, and leadership alignment.
– Track adoption metrics and outcomes to ensure measurable improvement in engineering effectiveness, quality, and resilience.
* Technical Credibility & Stakeholder Management:
– Act as a credible partner to senior engineers and architects, able to understand software engineering concepts, platform constraints, and delivery implications.
– Translate high‑level engineering strategy into practical, actionable change initiatives.
– Drive alignment across Engineering, Architecture, Cybersecurity, Service Management, HR/L&D, and commercial partners.
– Manage complex senior stakeholder relationships across a global, federated technology organisation.
* Governance, Planning & Reporting:
– Maintain structured delivery artefacts for the practice set‑up, including roadmaps, dependency logs, risks, and benefits tracking.
– Navigate enterprise governance, ensuring the Engineering Practice aligns to controls, policies, and approval frameworks.
– Provide clear, outcome‑focused reporting to CTO leadership, highlighting progress, risks, and change adoption challenges.
* Vendor & Partner Coordination:
– Coordinate third‑party and vendor contributions to the Engineering Practice (e.g. tooling, specialist capability, training partners).
– Ensure all vendor activity aligns with standards, controls, and long‑term capability goals.

Required Experience & Skills:
* Essential:
– Proven experience leading large‑scale organisational change initiatives within technology or engineering organisations.
– Strong understanding of software engineering concepts, platforms, and modern delivery practices (e.g. DevOps, CI/CD, cloud‑native development) sufficient to work credibly with senior engineers.
– Experience establishing or maturing technology practices, operating models, or centres of excellence.
– Excellent senior stakeholder management and influencing skills within complex, matrixed enterprises.
– Strong delivery discipline, with experience managing dependencies, risks, and multiple workstreams.
* Desirable:
– Experience in regulated or financial services environments.
– Exposure to engineering capability assessments, maturity models, or transformation roadmaps.
– Experience working across multiple technology platforms rather than a single product or system.
– Familiarity with agile at scale, DevOps transformation, or enterprise technology simplification programmes.

Role Characteristics:
– Change‑led, not system‑delivery‑led
– Enterprise‑wide impact
– High stakeholder complexity
– Requires technical fluency, not hands‑on engineering

All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.

Whitehall Resources are an equal opportunities employer who value a diverse and inclusive working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.

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