Senior Project Manager – Active Directory Service Consolidation

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to shape the future of Defra’s underpinning technology. The role involves complex multi-supplier negotiation, holding new AD Management Supplier to delivery outcomes, withdrawal of privileged access across legacy contracts, designing and embedding Tiered Administration boundaries, and ensuring readiness for live service.

• Complex multi-supplier negotiation (removing rights from incumbent suppliers through commercial changes to contracts)
• Holding new AD Management Supplier to delivery outcomes and fixed price costs
• Withdrawal of privileged access across legacy contracts
• Designing and embedding Tiered Administration boundaries
• Ensuring readiness for live service (SDRB, SKMS, ServiceNow, CMDB)
• Coordinating Active Directory recovery rehearsals

Person Specification

• Complex multi-supplier negotiation (removing rights from incumbent suppliers through commercial changes to contracts)
• Holding new AD Management Supplier to delivery outcomes and fixed price costs
• Withdrawal of privileged access across legacy contracts
• Designing and embedding Tiered Administration boundaries
• Ensuring readiness for live service (SDRB, SKMS, ServiceNow, CMDB)
• Coordinating Active Directory recovery rehearsals

Responsibilities

• Complex multi-supplier negotiation (removing rights from incumbent suppliers through commercial changes to contracts)
• Holding new AD Management Supplier to delivery outcomes and fixed price costs
• Withdrawal of privileged access across legacy contracts
• Designing and embedding Tiered Administration boundaries
• Ensuring readiness for live service (SDRB, SKMS, ServiceNow, CMDB)
• Coordinating Active Directory recovery rehearsals

Benefits Delivered By This Role

• Establish Active Directory as a secure, governed and accountable enterprise service
• Appoint a single Service Owner
• Transition to one accountable supplier
• Enforce a Tier0/Tier1/Tier2 administration model
• Eliminate excessive privileged access across five suppliers
• Implement consistent security patterns, immutable backups, and authoritative forest recovery
• Deliver 100% domain controller telemetry into SOC
• Provide a secure and standardised operating model for AD
• Ensure BAU readiness, CMDB/SKMS updates and ServiceNow integration

Skills And Experience

• Technical, security and operational leadership across a deeply federated supplier landscape
• Deep experience in identity/security delivery
• Delivery of AD domain remediation and decommissioning experience
• Experience handling multi-supplier federated environments
• Proven capability in SIEM/SOC onboarding, RBAC, KRBTGT, AD recovery
• Strong stakeholder communication across technical and non-technical communities
• Ability to obtain SC clearance and sensitive systems delivery history
• Prince2, APM, PMP or relevant project management qualification or equivalent experience

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build strong relationships with Domain Leads, Service Owners, Commercial teams, and suppliers
• Maintain clear, consistent communication with stakeholders at all levels

Behaviours

• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing
• Leadership
• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together

Salary and Benefits

Your salary will be £56,375, and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs will contribute £16,331 towards your Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. You will also receive:

• 25 days leave (rising to 30 days over 5 years)
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%
• Access to a range of retail discounts
• Flexible working options such as condensed hours, part-time and flexi time
• 3 paid volunteering days per year
• Funding for professional membership of a recognised professional body
• Learning and development tailored to your role
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• Cycle to work scheme
• Health cash plan to help you manage health costs for a reduced monthly fee
• Employee Assistance Programme open 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Season ticket loan for public transport
• Free access to Headspace for wellbeing