Program Delivery Director - Telecommunictions

Rackspace
United Kingdom
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeGBP 107,223 - 142,964 annuallyFunction: Transportation & Fleet OperationsExperience: 15+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Negotiation","Organizational change"]

Lead end-to-end delivery for a major telecommunications account, owning program outcomes, governance, financial performance, and executive stakeholder relationships. Provide technical oversight for cloud/private cloud infrastructure and migration, ensuring alignment to architecture, security, and regulatory requirements (GDPR, NIS2, Ofcom). Drive resilience and continuity planning, manage program risks/issues, and enforce enterprise governance and PMO controls while leading multi-disciplinary teams.

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Program Delivery Director - Telecommunictions

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Job Summary

Lead end-to-end delivery for a major telecommunications account, owning program outcomes, governance, financial performance, and executive stakeholder relationships. Provide technical oversight for cloud/private cloud infrastructure and migration, ensuring alignment to architecture, security, and regulatory requirements (GDPR, NIS2, Ofcom). Drive resilience and continuity planning, manage program risks/issues, and enforce enterprise governance and PMO controls while leading multi-disciplinary teams.
Location: United Kingdom
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Transportation & Fleet Operations
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead end-to-end program delivery for a large telecommunications account, accountable for outcomes, governance, financial performance, and stakeholder relationships.
  • •Provide technical oversight of cloud/private cloud infrastructure and migration delivery, aligned to architecture, security, and regulatory requirements.
  • •Own resilience and continuity planning, including availability, downtime mitigation, and recovery for business-critical systems.
  • •Set program strategy and delivery approach across interdependent projects, directing integrated program/project plans from initiation through operational transition and closure.
  • •Run enterprise governance and control (Program Board, SteerCo, escalation paths, RAID/stage gates/reporting) and manage program-level risks, issues, quality, and assurance.
Travel: Medium travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: GBP 107,223 - 142,964 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Telecommunications-sector expert who has directly led complex enterprise-level programs for a major telecoms operator or communications provider.
  • •15+ years leading directly complex enterprise programs for large customers, including transition and transformation programs worth more than £5m.
  • •Strong knowledge of private cloud data centre consolidation, migrations, private cloud platforms, and enterprise infrastructure.
  • •Strong commercial experience, including building commercial frameworks and leading contract negotiations.
  • •In-depth knowledge of telecoms regulatory frameworks (e.g., GDPR, NIS2, Ofcom) and industry interoperability standards.
Experience:15+ yearsTelecommunicationsPrivate cloudCloud migrationEnterprise programsTelecom regulatory compliance
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationNegotiationOrganizational change
Certifications:PMPPGmP
Tech Stack:CloudPrivate cloudData protectionCybersecurityGDPRNIS2Ofcom

Company Brief

Rackspace
Provides managed cloud services, multi-cloud solutions, and managed hosting across public and private cloud platforms, helping enterprises design, operate, and optimize cloud infrastructure and applications.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Antonio, United States
Founded: 1998
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