Why This Role Exists



The organisation is undertaking a
high-risk platform replacement , driven by:

• End-of-life infrastructure and tooling


• Operational instability risks

This role exists to:

• Provide delivery control and structure


• Ensure alignment across technology and business teams


• Enable successful, timely execution of a critical programme

This is a
finite, high-impact role with direct visibility at Director and Board level.




Contract Success Measures



The contract will be considered successful when:

• Migration to AVD is delivered in line with planned milestones


• Executive stakeholders have clear, consistent confidence in delivery


• Risks and dependencies are actively managed and visible


• Programme delivery is:




• Controlled


• Transparent


• Well-governed




• The organisation exits the legacy platform safely and predictably

The role




Role Purpose



To
lead the end-to-end delivery of a wide scale and high visibility VDI replacement programme , coordinating internal teams, external partners, and senior stakeholders to deliver a
controlled migration from a legacy virtual desktop platform
onto a newly deployed Azure landing zone and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) .



This role exists to:

• Ensure structured, predictable delivery of a high-risk, high-visibility programme


• Provide clear coordination across multiple workstreams (infrastructure, applications, security, business)


• Enable executive and board-level confidence through effective communication and governance


• Drive timely decision-making and escalation to avoid delivery drift

This is
not a purely administrative PM role: it is a
delivery leadership role requiring strong coordination, ownership, and communication at all levels of the organisation.




Key Outcomes (What success looks like)



By the end of the contract, the organisation will have:

• Successfully migrated ~3,500 users to Azure Virtual Desktop within the defined programme timeline


• Delivered a controlled transition off the legacy platform, including AWS exit planning


• Delivered an Azure landing zone accepted by security and architecture governance as the foundation for AVD


• Achieved clear governance and visibility across all programme workstreams


• Established trusted reporting to executive and board stakeholders


• Ensured risks, dependencies, and decisions are actively managed and visible


• Delivered a programme that is:




• Predictable


• Measured


• Clearly communicated

Key accountabilities




Key Responsibilities

1. Programme coordination & delivery

• Own the end-to-end coordination of the VDI Replacement programme


• Align delivery across:




• Infrastructure (Azure landing zone, AVD build, networking, identity)


• Application packaging and delivery


• Security and compliance


• Business engagement and UAT




• Drive delivery against defined milestones, including:




• Partner mobilisation


• Design sign-off


• Core infrastructure build


• Phased user migration


• Hypercare and legacy environment decommission




• Ensure all workstreams are:




• Prioritised


• Sequenced correctly


• Actively progressing

1. Stakeholder engagement & communication

• Act as the primary coordination point between technical teams and senior stakeholders


• Provide clear, structured updates to:




• C-Suite level


• Group stakeholders


• Executive/board audiences




• Translate technical delivery into clear business language


• Ensure stakeholders:




• Understand progress


• Are aware of risks


• Are engaged at the right time

1. Governance, reporting & control

• Establish and maintain:




• Programme governance structure


• RAID logs


• Delivery tracking and reporting cadence




• Produce high-quality, concise reporting suitable for senior leadership


• Ensure all programme activity is:




• Documented


• Traceable


• Defensible

Skills & experience




Experience & Skills Required




Essential

• Proven experience delivering large-scale infrastructure or platform transformation programmes


• Direct experience delivering a virtual desktop (VDI or AVD) migration of comparable scale and sensitivity


• Demonstrated success in:




• Multi-workstream coordination


• Complex stakeholder management


• Executive-level reporting




• Strong understanding of:




• Azure at enterprise scale, including landing zone design and governance, networking, and identity (Microsoft Entra ID)


• Azure Virtual Desktop delivery concepts (host pools, image management, FSLogix profiles, licensing and capacity) and phased migration at scale




• Exceptional communication skills:




• Clear, structured writing


• Confident verbal communication at senior levels




• Comfortable operating in:




• High-visibility, high-pressure environments


• Ambiguous or fast-moving delivery contexts

Desirable

• Experience delivering:




• Migrations off legacy VDI estates (Citrix, VMware Horizon) or AWS-hosted desktop platforms


• Delivery aligned to the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework, or in security-assured / regulated Azure environments




• Exposure to:




• Large-scale user migrations


• M&A-driven technology environments




• Familiarity with:




• Infrastructure delivery (networking, identity, security)

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