Senior Project Manager

Job Description:

Your Impact Leonardo UK is seeking a hands‑on Senior Project Manager to lead the delivery of complex infrastructure and technology change within the Cyber Security Division. Working in a lean Integrated Project Team, you will combine senior delivery leadership with direct ownership of the plans, controls, requirements, verification, test and acceptance products required to deliver successfully. You will manage multiple concurrent and interdependent changes for defence and wider government customers.

The portfolio principally covers infrastructure and platform change, including software and operating‑system upgrades, new application integration, cyber‑security change, migration, transition and operational readiness. The role requires resilience, sound judgement and strong negotiation skills, together with the confidence to challenge constructively while maintaining effective customer relationships. The role is based at the customer site in London. There will be some flexibility to work from home, however, frequent site presence is required.

Security clearance is a requirement for this role. If you already hold an appropriate clearance, this would be beneficial.

Lead projects and changes across the full lifecycle, from mobilisation and definition through implementation, verification, acceptance, transition and closure. Operate as a hands‑on delivery leader as well as a manager. Personally produce, populate, review and maintain core project artefacts as required within a delivery environment. Establish and maintain integrated project schedules, delivery baselines, milestones, dependencies, critical paths, forecasts and credible recovery plans.

Develop and maintain Project Management Plans, RAID logs, decision and assumption records, resource forecasts, governance packs, progress reports and auditable delivery records. Manage several concurrent deliveries, balancing competing priorities, specialist resources, operational demands and contractual milestones. Identify cumulative risk and cross‑project dependencies, resolve priority conflicts where possible, and escalated with clear evidence, options and recommendations. Lead multidisciplinary teams across engineering, architecture, security, test and service management.

Work collaboratively with Finance, Commercial, suppliers and customer organisations. Integrate security, accreditation and assurance activities into delivery plans. Coordinate the associated evidence, reviews, approvals, access constraints and security‑cleared resource dependencies. Translate contractual, customer and business needs into controlled, measurable delivery outcomes and acceptance criteria. Develop and maintain requirements catalogues, where required, and end‑to‑end traceability from requirement through design, implementation, verification and acceptance.

Drive completion of Verification and Validation Requirements Matrices, working directly with the team to populate, maintain and update them. Identify unclear, conflicting, unallocated or untestable requirements and drive their timely resolution. Coordinate the creation and review of test strategies, plans, specifications, scripts and readiness evidence. Contribute directly to these products and associated test outputs where necessary. Develop and maintain Integrated Test, Evaluation and Acceptance Plans and associated evidence matrices, records and acceptance submissions.

Plan and control integration, verification, validation, transition and customer acceptance activity. Ensure the supporting evidence is complete, coherent, configuration‑controlled and suitable for approval. Drive defect, concession and acceptance‑action resolution with technical…