Transition Manager – IT Transition Services

Contract Opportunity | Legacy Technology Transformation

Day Rate: £635.51
Contract Start: 9 November 2026
Contract End: 30 June 2027
Location: Remote, with occasional travel to London or Manchester
Working Pattern: Travel approximately fortnightly or monthly
Residency Requirement: Minimum of 5 years’ UK residency and currently based in the UK

The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Transition Manager to support a major technology transformation programme within a critical public-sector environment.

The programme involves modernising legacy applications that underpin essential national services. It will see applications currently running on legacy technologies, including COBOL, C++ and Java, refactored and migrated from on-premise data centres to modern Java-based solutions hosted on AWS and utilising a microservices architecture.

The successful candidate will take responsibility for planning and managing the transition of services into their new operational environments, ensuring that all necessary readiness activities are completed and that service continuity is maintained throughout the change.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee the planning, coordination and execution of IT service transitions.

• Ensure new or changed services are ready for operational handover and go-live.

• Define, measure and validate service readiness metrics ahead of implementation.

• Establish and assess appropriate Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and operational support models.

• Ensure non-functional requirements are understood, documented and validated.

• Coordinate with technical teams, service owners and operational stakeholders to ensure a controlled transition.

• Identify transition risks, dependencies and potential service impacts, ensuring these are managed effectively.

• Ensure operational processes, support arrangements and documentation are in place before services go live.

• Maintain service continuity and minimise disruption during technology and application changes.

• Provide clear reporting on transition progress, readiness and outstanding actions.

Essential Experience

• Proven experience as a Transition Manager within IT services, technology transformation or application modernisation programmes.

• Strong understanding of IT service transition, operational readiness and service handover.

• Experience defining and validating readiness criteria, including SLAs, support models and non-functional requirements.

• Ability to coordinate technical and operational teams through complex transition activities.

• Experience managing risks, dependencies and go-live readiness.

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

• Ability to work independently in a remote delivery environment.

Residency Requirements

Applicants must have a minimum of five years’ UK residency and must currently be living in the UK.

Contract Details

• Rate: £635.51 per day

• Duration: 9 November 2026 – 30 June 2027

• Location: Predominantly remote

• Travel: Approximately fortnightly or monthly to London or Manchester

• Role: Transition Manager – IT Transition Services

Reasonable Adjustments:

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