Azets
Senior Project Manager – VDI Modernisation Project
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Why This Role Exists
The organisation is undertaking a high-risk platform replacement, driven by:
- End-of-life infrastructure and tooling
- Operational instability risks
This Role Exists To:
- Provide delivery control and structure
- Ensure alignment across technology and business teams
- Enable successful, timely execution of a critical programme
This is a finite, high-impact role with direct visibility at Director and Board level.
Contract Success Measures
The Contract Will Be Considered Successful When:
- Migration to AVD is delivered in line with planned milestones
- Executive stakeholders have clear, consistent confidence in delivery
- Risks and dependencies are actively managed and visible
- Programme delivery is:
- Controlled
- Transparent
- Well-governed
- The organisation exits the legacy platform safely and predictably
The Role
Role Purpose
To lead the end-to-end delivery of a wide scale and high visibility VDI replacement programme, coordinating internal teams, external partners, and senior stakeholders to deliver a controlled migration from a legacy virtual desktop platform onto a newly deployed Azure landing zone and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD).
This Role Exists To:
- Ensure structured, predictable delivery of a high-risk, high-visibility programme
- Provide clear coordination across multiple workstreams (infrastructure, applications, security, business)
- Enable executive and board-level confidence through effective communication and governance
- Drive timely decision-making and escalation to avoid delivery drift
This is not a purely administrative PM role: it is a delivery leadership role requiring strong coordination, ownership, and communication at all levels of the organisation.
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Key Outcomes (What Success Looks Like)
By the end of the contract, the organisation will have:
- Successfully migrated ~3,500 users to Azure Virtual Desktop within the defined programme timeline
- Delivered a controlled transition off the legacy platform, including AWS exit planning
- Delivered an Azure landing zone accepted by security and architecture governance as the foundation for AVD
- Achieved clear governance and visibility across all programme workstreams
- Established trusted reporting to executive and board stakeholders
- Ensured risks, dependencies, and decisions are actively managed and visible
- Delivered a programme that is:
- Predictable
- Measured
- Clearly communicated
Key Responsibilities
Programme Coordination & Delivery
- Own the end-to-end coordination of the VDI Replacement programme
- Align delivery across:
- Infrastructure (Azure landing zone, AVD build, networking, identity)
- Application packaging and delivery
- Security and compliance
- Business engagement and UAT
- Drive delivery against defined milestones, including:
- Partner mobilisation
- Design sign-off
- Core infrastructure build
- Phased user migration
- Hypercare and legacy environment decommission
- Ensure all workstreams are:
- Prioritised
- Sequenced correctly
- Actively progressing
Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
- Act as the primary coordination point between technical teams and senior stakeholders
- Provide clear, structured updates to:
- C-Suite level
- Group stakeholders
- Executive/board audiences
- Translate technical delivery into clear business language
- Ensure stakeholders:
- Understand progress
- Are aware of risks
- Are engaged at the right time
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Governance, Reporting & Control
- Establish and maintain:
- Programme governance structure
- RAID logs
- Delivery tracking and reporting cadence
- Produce high-quality, concise reporting suitable for senior leadership
- Ensure all programme activity is:
- Documented
- Traceable
- Defensible
Skills & Experience
Experience & Skills Required
Essential
- Proven experience delivering large-scale infrastructure or platform transformation programmes
- Direct experience delivering a virtual desktop (VDI or AVD) migration of comparable scale and sensitivity
- Demonstrated success in:
- Multi-workstream coordination
- Complex stakeholder management
- Executive-level reporting
- Strong understanding of:
- Azure at enterprise scale, including landing zone design and governance, networking, and identity (Microsoft Entra ID)
- Azure Virtual Desktop delivery concepts (host pools, image management, FSLogix profiles, licensing and capacity) and phased migration at scale
- Exceptional communication skills:
- Clear, structured writing
- Confident verbal communication at senior levels
- Comfortable operating in:
- High-visibility, high-pressure environments
- Ambiguous or fast-moving delivery contexts
Desirable
- Experience delivering:
- Migrations off legacy VDI estates (Citrix, VMware Horizon) or AWS-hosted desktop platforms
- Delivery aligned to the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework, or in security-assured / regulated Azure environments
- Exposure to:
- Large-scale user migrations
- M&A-driven technology environments
- Familiarity with:
- Infrastructure delivery (networking, identity, security)
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