IT PMO Lead Atlas

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The PMO IT Lead is responsible for establishing and leading the IT Programme Management Office (PMO) for a large-scale business and technology transformation programme Atlas. The role ensures effective governance, planning, reporting, financial control, resource management, risk management, dependencies management and delivery assurance support across multiple work streams and projects.

The PMO IT Lead acts as the central point of coordination between IT stakeholders, programme leadership, IT project managers, workstream leads, technology teams, vendors, business Leads and governance forums to ensure successful delivery of the programme. This role will work closely with the Transformation Office PMO and existing IT PMO.

• Establish and maintain programme governance frameworks, standards, and controls.

• Supports and helps facilitate steering committees, programme boards, stage gate reviews, and executive governance forums.

• Ensure compliance with organisational delivery methodologies and governance requirements.

• Maintain programme documentation, decision logs, and audit readiness.

• Maintain the integrated master plan across all projects in Atlas, work streams, suppliers and business activities for IT.

• Define programme planning standards, assumptions, baselines, milestones and reporting cycles with the Transformation PMO.

• Assure the quality and completeness of project plans before incorporation into the integrated master plan.

• Identify and manage critical paths, cross-project milestones, schedule conflicts and business-to-technology integration points.

• Assess the programme-wide impact of proposed scope, schedule, resource or solution changes before approval.

• Track performance against approved scope, schedule and cost baselines, challenging unsupported forecasts and recovery assumptions.

• Own and maintain integrated programme plans across all work streams.

• Monitor milestones, dependencies, critical paths, and delivery timelines.

• Track programme performance against approved baselines.

• Ensure alignment between business and technology delivery schedules.

• Develop and maintain programme dashboards and executive reporting.

• Provide clear visibility of programme health through KPI, milestone, financial, and RAG reporting.

• Deliver concise management information to senior stakeholders and leadership teams.

• Drive data-driven decision making through programme analytics.

• Lead programme-wide management of Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies (RAID).

• Ensure timely escalation and resolution of critical risks and issues.

• Facilitate mitigation planning and dependency management across work streams.

• Maintain programme risk registers and action tracking.