Opticore IT are currently searching for a Senior Technical Project Manager to join the Co-Lo Team within one of our Financial Services clients. The ideal candidate will possess management skills in leading internal and external project teams, contingent/contract workers, as well as providing relationship management services and oversight on services rendered by strategic partners and service providers.

Opticore IT is a specialist Network Engineer and Project Management consultancy offering a wide variety of opportunities to work within fast-paced, challenging environments across our client base spanning multiple sectors including Finance, Broadcast Media, Telecommunications and more.

What you'll be doing:

• Engage and communicate effectively and successfully with all stakeholders from high frequency trading teams
• Discuss requirements and define the solution working with other IT teams.
• Define, plan, document and communicate project scope, implementation, closure and timelines.
• Implement projects to the required level of quality
• Manage a project through its lifecycle, coordinating all input from IT teams
• Report on project status using suitable reporting tools.
• Effectively and proactively manage and report on all project risks (including contingency planning), taking corrective action where necessary.
• Solicit and gain buy-in from project stakeholders to project approach and delivery objectives.
• Undertake post project quality reviews.
• Work with technical staff & resources as required.

What you'll bring:

• 5- 10 years’ experience of managing multiple concurrent Global infrastructure projects in a financial services institution, specifically in exchange co-location and extranet environments used for High Frequency Algorithmic Trading business
• Experience in managing projects related to exchange co-location and extranet silo build
• Experience in managing client connectivity on-boarding via direct connections or network service provider
• Experience of Change Control (change control processes and workflow, raising changes and risk associated with change).
• Experience of successfully working with stakeholders from many business areas, backgrounds and nationalities to realise project milestones and deliverables.
• Experience of successfully managing multiple projects simultaneously, across multiple time zones.
• Demonstrable experience of managing projects or initiatives in an Agile environment, utilising agile methodologies such as SCRUM, Kanban and SAFe
• Knowledge and experience of networking technologies such as Cisco, F5, Arista, Juniper, McAfee and Checkpoint
• Understanding of Ethernet, Spanning Tree, TCP/IP, Routing (RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP)
• Experience of creating, presenting Project reports and stakeholder updates to senior management
• Technical ability to understand Network Design Guidelines, create equipment lists and create technical solutions based on these guidelines

• Extensive experience with liaising with carriers and vendors for installations

Here at Opticore IT we believe in investing in our team as we understand that we are only as great as our engineers, so learning and development is a big deal for us. Whether you’re going for a Prince2, PMP, APM or anything in between Opticore IT has your back with all our training, courses and shared knowledge, oh and the most important part it’s all free! On top of that, we also give you:

• Competitive Salary & discretionary bonus
• 23 days holiday + bank holidays
• Private healthcare & dental
• Pension
• EV car, workplace nursery, tech, and cycle-to-work salary sacrifice schemes
• Team & Company Social events
• EMI share scheme

At OpticoreIT we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We actively recruit for an inclusive and diverse workforce and as such, want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.

We want you to feel empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made with your application or interview process so, please speak to our recruitment team.