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# IT Data Project Manager

- **Company:** Equans
- **Location:** West Midlands, UK
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** JIRA, RAID, Power BI, Office365, Information Technology, Tools for Reporting
- **Published:** July 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=ff181f545b1bbf94

## About the Role

* Proven experience delivering complex IT projects, ideally involving application transformation and security components.
 * Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
 * Hands-on experience with both agile and waterfall delivery methods; familiarity with Jira/SPM and MS 365 toolset.
 * Desirable knowledge of Data Reporting Tools such as PowerBI and Palantir
 * Experience coordinating technical testing, change, release and transition activities.
 * Clear, logical and rigorous thinker with strong attention to detail.
 * Confident self-starter who takes initiative and drives decisions.
 * Excellent verbal and written communication; builds trusted relationships.
 * Organised, efficient and resilient under pressure.

## Description

The IT Data Project Manager role is to plan, manage and support the Data team to sift and prioritise the demands coming from data domain owners covering a wide range of data consuming services and delivering these into a production state.

What will you deliver?

 * Lead the delivery of data projects; primarily focused on New Demands and associate product support ensuring successful information gathering, scoping and documentation.
 * Assist data domain owners to prioritise their demands (with respect to available capacity) and help write acceptance criteria that assure the benefits to the owner
 * Resolve blockers that require resource from outside the core team
 * Coordinate technical activities deployment and support within the Data team and interdependencies with the Demand team or stakeholders.
 * Apply structured governance and delivery management across agile and waterfall approaches, ensuring scope, milestones and acceptance criteria are met.
 * Provide transparent reporting to stakeholders and steering groups, maintaining dashboards, RAID logs and financial tracking.
 * Create and maintain business and technical project risk & issue logs showing evidence of containment and contingency actions you have taken
 * Seek out alternative suppliers, lead on reviews of 3rd party proposals and contribution to negotiations involving 3rd party services to provision cost effective solutions for projects where required


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