Computappoint
Delivery Lead (VMware Migration)
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Do you thrive in complex technology environments where delivery, stakeholder management, and infrastructure transformation are business critical? Our client is seeking a highly capable Delivery Lead to take ownership of a strategic technology modernisation initiative, focused on migrating the VMware estate to OpenShift Virtualisation.
This is a unique opportunity to lead a high-profile transformation programme at one of the world's most important financial market infrastructure organisations.
Job Title: Delivery Lead
Job Type: Contract
Location: Central London (3 days on-site per week)
Day Rate: Up to £800/day (Inside IR35)
The Role
- Lead the day-to-day delivery of a strategic modernisation programme.
- Manage the migration of the VMware estate to the OpenShift Container Platform and OpenShift Virtualisation.
- Own programme plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, and delivery governance.
- Coordinate infrastructure, platform, and engineering teams to ensure successful migration outcomes.
- Drive visibility across the programme through effective reporting, RAID management, and stakeholder communication.
- Remove delivery blockers and manage competing priorities across multiple workstreams.
- Partner with senior technology leadership to ensure programme objectives are achieved.
- Provide hands-on delivery leadership in a fast-paced environment where priorities and requirements continue to evolve.
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What We're Looking For
- Proven experience as a Delivery Lead, Programme Manager, Technical Project Manager, or Infrastructure Transformation Lead.
- Demonstrable experience delivering VMware migration, infrastructure migration, data centre transformation, or platform modernisation programmes.
- Experience coordinating technical teams through complex migration and transformation initiatives.
- Strong understanding of VMware technologies, virtualisation environments, and enterprise infrastructure programmes.
- Exposure to OpenShift, OpenShift Virtualisation, Kubernetes, container platforms, or cloud-native transformation programmes is highly desirable.
- Excellent planning, reporting, RAID management, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with technical teams and senior leadership.
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced environments with multiple priorities and changing requirements.
- Experience delivering the following projects:
- VMware to OpenShift migration programmes
- Enterprise virtualisation transformation initiatives
- Infrastructure modernisation projects
- Containerisation and platform transformation programmes
- Large-scale technology migration and modernisation programmes
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