Senior Data Center Project Manager

Are you ready to take ownership of cutting-edge infrastructure in a secure-by-design environment? As our Data Centre Project Manager, you’ll be at the heart of deploying and evolving the IT architectures that power modern containerised and virtualised telecom applications.

What You’ll Be Doing

Deploying  Architecture and supporting a Telecoms Test Lab: You’ll manage the  delivery of compute servers, switching fabrics, container platforms, and      applications to support systems under test.

Translating Vision into Action: You’ll take high-level business and technical  requirements and break them down into actionable scopes for      cross-functional teams.

Capturing Requirements: You’ll work closely with build, operations, and test teams to gather and document the needs that shape lab architecture.

Keeping Stakeholders Informed: You’ll produce regular reports and contribute to updates that keep internal and external stakeholders aligned.

Managing Vendors: You’ll oversee third-party suppliers, ensuring documentation is accurate, up-to-date, and stored correctly.

Driving Collaboration: You’ll coordinate matrixed teams to deliver on technical and business outcomes.

advocating  Continuous Improvement: You’ll embed stakeholder feedback into project plans to drive ongoing enhancements.

We strive to offer a great work life balance - if you are looking for full time, part time or flexible options, we will try to make this work where business demands permit. This will be dependent on the kind of role you do and the area of the business you work in.  

Successful Applicants must be able to commute to the UKTL offices in Birmingham at least twice a week

UKTL is run as a semi-autonomous arm of The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) which is a world-leading centre of excellence that provides cutting-edge measurement science, engineering and technology to underpin prosperity and quality of life in the UK. 

NPL and UKTL have strong commitments to diversity and equality of opportunity, and welcome applications from candidates irrespective of their background, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, or age, providing they meet the required criteria. Applications from women, disabled and black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates in particular are encouraged. All disabled candidates (as defined by the Equality Act 2010) who satisfy the minimum criteria for the role will be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme. 

At NPL, we believe our success is a result of the diversity and talent of our people. We strive to nurture and respect individuals to ensure everyone feels valued by treating everyone on the basis of their own individual merits and abilities regardless of their own or perceived identity, as part of our commitment to diversity & inclusion, we hold memberships and accreditations to ensure we’re creating an environment where all our colleagues feel supported and welcome, please see our Diversity & Inclusion page. 

To ensure everyone has an equal chance, we’re always willing to make reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process. If you would like to discuss, please contact us.