Senior Project Manager -Akamai WAF

Salary: Competitive Remuneration

• Initial 6-month contract | Multi-year transformation programme
• Join a US-based Tier 1 global consultancy
• Lead a high-profile Akamai WAF transformation across APAC

Peoplebank has exclusively partnered with our client to build their APAC consulting group. US based, they are one of the world’s largest tech consultancies and their end client a multi-billion dollar global brand.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead a major network and security transformation programme, overseeing the implementation and onboarding of customer websites onto an Akamai WAF solution.

Key responsibilities/Your Role.

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of network and security implementation projects in accordance with established project management frameworks and governance standards.
• Develop and maintain the overall project plan, migration strategy and onboarding wave plan, ensuring activities, milestones, dependencies and resources are clearly defined.
• Coordinate and schedule onboarding and migration waves with regional site owners across APAC and the US.
• Manage migration schedules and readiness activities, ensuring sites meet all required technical, business and operational readiness milestones.
• Coordinate business, network and security teams to ensure all required network configurations, technical activities, testing and approvals are completed.
• Maintain comprehensive RAID logs, action registers, decision logs, dependency trackers and project documentation.
• Provide clear executive-level dashboards, progress reports and delivery updates, highlighting milestones, risks, issues and key decisions.

What You'll Bring

• 15+ years’ experience in IT, with 8+ years’ experience as a Senior Project Manager delivering complex technology transformation and infrastructure projects.
• Proven experience managing large-scale network, cybersecurity and/or security transformation projects, ideally including WAF, cloud security, network migration or similar technology implementations.
• Demonstrated experience delivering global projects across multiple regions and time zones, working with geographically dispersed technical, business and customer teams.
• Strong experience managing end-to-end project delivery, including planning, governance, migration, change control, risk and issue management, dependencies, testing, acceptance and transition to operations.
• Proven ability to coordinate large-scale migration and onboarding programmes, including developing migration strategies, wave plans, readiness milestones and executive-level schedules.
• Strong stakeholder and client management skills, with the confidence to engage and communicate effectively with senior executives, technical teams, business stakeholders and third-party suppliers.
• Experience managing large, multidisciplinary teams across technical and non-technical functions, with the ability to provide clear direction and maintain delivery momentum.

We have partnered exclusively with this client for more than 10 years. Shortlisted candidates will receive an detailed brief with additional insight into the opportunity, programme and team.


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