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Contract Assignment:
Change Implementation Specialist

Start Date: October 2025

Location: Leeds Or Edinburgh, UK – (Hybrid) Twice a week in the office

Duration: 6 months (initially) - Will run till mid-2027

Daily Rate: upto £500 per day

Engagement Type: Via PAYE

Working hours: Must be willing to work night shifts as there is a 24-7 change implementation

Must have the legal right to work in the UK, this role does not provide sponsorship

The Change Implementation Specialist will play a pivotal role in delivering high-volume, low-risk infrastructure and application changes within a regulated financial services environment. Working within a high-performing Agile delivery team governed by SAFe principles, the specialist will ensure structured, compliant, and timely execution of change events.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and execute structured change events during defined windows (including overnight and out-of-hours activities) to ensure operational continuity and compliance.
• Produce, validate, and maintain detailed implementation plans and Sequence of Events (SOE) documentation for controlled change delivery.
• Conduct environment readiness and dependency assessments prior to execution.
• Deliver changes across legacy and target environments, including dual-running, decommissioning, and provisioning activities.
• Represent and support changes in governance forums (CCBs, CABs, technical risk committees), managing incident escalations and post-change reviews.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, operations, platform engineering, and cybersecurity teams to ensure well-governed change processes.
• Drive adoption of a standardised, scalable change delivery model using JIRA and Confluence.
• Contribute to continuous improvement efforts in change governance, documentation, and operational processes.

Required Skills & Experience:

• The change implementation specialist must have a minimum of 5 years experience delivering structured infrastructure or platform changes within the banking/financial services sector.
• The change implementation specialist must have strong stakeholder management and risk-based decision-making during live change events.
• Experience assessing, escalating, and supporting change-related incidents in production.
• Familiarity with high-volume decommissioning, provisioning, and dependency management.
• Excellent documentation skills for runbooks, change records, and post-event reviews.
• The change implementation specialist must have hands-on experience with JIRA and Confluence in Agile delivery environments (ideally SAFe).
• Strong understanding of change governance, incident response, SOE planning, and risk assessment.
• Awareness of network flow and application mapping, enterprise firewalls (e.g., Checkpoint, F5), and hybrid/on-prem/cloud infrastructures (HP, Dell, Oracle Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Knowledge of legacy system decommissioning, enterprise backup, monitoring, and rollback tooling.

Useful but Not Essential:

• Prior experience in UK retail or commercial banking transformation programmes.
• Exposure to cloud migration or hybrid hosting models.
• Familiarity with tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Dynatrace.
• Knowledge of ITIL or COBIT (focus on Change, Release, Incident Management).
• Awareness of automation and orchestration platforms.

Seniority level

• Seniority level
  
  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type
  
  Contract

Job function

• Job function
  
  Information Technology
• Industries Information Services, IT Services and IT Consulting, and Banking

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