Senior Configuration Manager

Skåne County  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Senior Configuration Manager

Senior Configuration Manager required for a project with a globally operating business based in Helsingborg, Sweden.

Duration: 02-Jan--May-2018 with likely extensions thereafter.

Background:

Identity & Access Mgmt. is a crucial capability in our efforts to improve the Digital Workplace experience. During FY15 a pre-study was carried out, where one of the conclusions was that the company need to change their current home developed solution for Identity & Access Mgmt and move to a readily available solution following latest market standard in order to prepare for the future and new requirements of modern Accessing Solutions. This has been formulated in a special project. The first phase of the project is a vendor selection, followed by 2nd phase consisting of an implementation of the selected platform which is planned to start January 2018.

Tasks:

The consultant shall be Deployment Lead to the implementation phase of a platform project. The consultant will work closely with Project manager and with the project group and its super users to secure project is delivered successfully.

The main tasks in the assignment will be/a day at work will look like:

- Create a detailed checklist of all technical activities leading-up to and during production deployment/platform switch-over including roll-back
- Owner of checklist which will be the document the team will fully follow during switch-over
- Schedule planning meetings with product One Identity, system specialist, and when relevant developers to detail the activities
- Facilitate planning sessions. As the owner of the deployment checklist you are expected to do all the updates in the list with input from team
- Plan and set-up escalation process during deployment and hyper care with support from PM
- Plan and secure resource need during dry runs, production deployment, and hyper care with support from PM
- Drive and coordinate dry runs, simulation of switch-over, with all involved parties
- Close follow-up with the team of deployment progress
- Update checklist Real Time
- Report continuous deployment progress to project team and selected stakeholders as if in scarp production deployment
- Escalate in case of issues according to set escalation processes
- Drive and coordinate production deployment weeks
- Close follow-up with the team of deployment progress
- Update checklist Real Time
- Report continuous deployment progress to project team and stakeholders
- Escalate in case of issues according to set escalation processes
- Coordinate hyper care post production deployment
- Facilitate and schedule daily sessions to prioritize and go through reported defects
- Follow-up on progress
- Report status to selected stakeholders

Requirements:
Knowledge:

1) Good business understanding paired with a healthy awareness of technology and implementations
2) Social skills and networking
3) Open and positive attitude - a "doer"
- Interested and eager to learn new things
- Does what needs to be done, not afraid to get hands dirty or do necessary tasks for project to progress
4) Good communicator and motivator.

Experience in:
1. Participation in IT roll-out projects
2. IT implementations & testing
3. Change management

Following competences must be fulfilled:
Project Mgmt - Junior skills
Change Mgmt - Senior skills
Communication/support - Senior skills
IT implementation & test - Senior skills

Project start date:
2nd Jan with some flexibility.

Project end date:
4th May 2018 with option to extend.

Total hours:
600 h. There is no expectation of overtime or on-call work.

There is no possibility for remote/off-site work.
There is some travel required outside the primary working site(s).

English is the only language required for this role.

Whitehall Resources are leading ERP Recruitment specialist in the provision of SAP, Oracle & IT recruitment in the UK and Internationally.

Start date
02/01/2017
Duration
6 months+
(extension possible)
From
Whitehall Resources Ltd
Published at
06.12.2017
Project ID:
1465256
Contract type
Freelance
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