IT Project Manager (Life and Pensions)
IT Project Manager (Life and Pensions)
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Job Description
As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue SS&C is headquartered in Windsor Connecticut and has 27000 employees in 35 countries. Some 20000 financial services and healthcare organizations from the worlds largest companies to small and mid-market firms rely on SS&C for expertise scale and technology.
Job Description
IT Project Manager (Life and Pensions)
Location: Central London
Get To Know Us:
SS&C is leading the way. We continue to look for todays and tomorrows brightest talent those that embody a spirit to improve not only their lives but those around them. From college students to seasoned and experienced professionals we encourage you to apply. SS&C prides itself on hiring diverse honest dynamic individuals who value collaboration accountability and innovation to name a few.
The Opportunity
We are looking for an IT Project Manager with a proven track record in leading Life & Pensions programs platform development and large-scale BPO initiatives within the financial services sector. This is a high-impact role offering the opportunity to drive transformation at scale across complex delivery environments.
You will provide support to and be involved in the Inception Process for projects including governance reporting and facilitating the handover from inception to the design and delivery stages of the projects. This will cover complex/higher business priority activities but you will also be expected to lead a series of projects with less complexity but with equal or higher business priority.
The ideal candidate will possess a strong technical foundation exceptional stakeholder management skills and a proven track record in managing complex IT projects including infrastructure data centres cloud and application migrations.
What You Will Get To Do:
- Lead end-to-end delivery of multi-stream projects across Life & Pensions platform upgrades and outsourcing transformations.
- Define project scope objectives governance and success metrics in collaboration with sponsors and stakeholders.
- Manage cross-functional teams including technical and operational workstreams ensuring resource alignment and milestone tracking.
- Maintain full financial controlmonitoring budgets forecasts and tolerance levels.
- Own project governance documentation RAID management and status reporting.
- Foster strong relationships with internal stakeholders clients and third parties.
- Ensure compliance with internal change frameworks and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
What You Will Bring:
- 5 years of delivering IT Infrastructure projects within financial services with essential experience in Life & Pensions.
- Demonstrated experience delivering within the Life and Pension sector and/or BPO projects in a regulated environment.
- Proven ability to deliver across various IT areas e.g. digital solutions Cloud estate End of life replacement approaches for SW & HW Hosting solutions and SDLC.
- Proficiency in project management tools (e.g. MS Project Jira Confluence) ideally holding a Project Management certification (Prince 2 or Agile).
- Strong Project Management methodology experience across both Agile and Waterfall deliveries.
- Ability to work under pressure always maintaining a calm and assertive manner.
- Understanding of Software Development Lifecycle standards as well as the full IT Infrastructure (including change management).
- Understanding of ITIL practices and service transition.
Why You Will Love It Here!
- Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
- Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University
- Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
- Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff
- Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
- Training: Hands-On Team-Customised throughout your career
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. Its important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.
Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable to further explore this opportunity please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies Inc. or any of its affiliated companies the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters recruitment agencies or fee-based recruitment services.
SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race color religious creed gender age marital status sexual orientation national origin disability veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
