Location: Hamilton International Technology Park, office-based, 5 days a week, with occasional travel to our different data centres
About DataVita
DataVita is a next-generation cloud and infrastructure company operating from Tier III-certified data centres in Scotland. We work extensively with AI and automation, integrating these technologies into complex legacy environments to deliver genuine transformation.
DataVita is the fastest growing technology company in Scotland, with plans to deploy and invest over £2 billion in the coming years. You would be joining at a relatively early stage of that trajectory. For the right person, this is a chance to build something from the ground up inside a business that is scaling fast.
About the Role
DataVita operates highly resilient, secure data centre and cloud infrastructure, supporting various customers across the public sector and regulated industry. The Project Manager will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of customer-facing projects. This role requires a delivery-focused individual with strong communication, planning, and leadership skills, and confidence managing customer expectations around critical, always-on infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
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Own the delivery and success of projects against agreed timelines and quality standards. This includes new customer setup, service migrations and changes to existing customer environments.
- Develop clear project plans, RAID logs, and delivery milestones.
- Coordinate internal teams, vendors, and third parties to ensure projects run smoothly.
- Manage day-to-day project activity including status updates, handling changes in scope, resolving issues, and escalating where needed.
- Build strong working relationships with customers, acting as a trusted point of contact, keeping them informed on progress, risks, and dependencies.
- Support procurement and supplier coordination where needed, including onboarding new suppliers and managing equipment logistics.
- Ensure all project work meets relevant compliance and security requirements.
- Contribute to continuous improvement in how projects are delivered, including templates, processes, and communication with customers.
- Manage colocation onboarding activity, including rack and power provisioning, cross-connect and carrier circuit coordination, customer access setup, RAMS review, and coordination with data centre engineering teams.
- Deliver cloud onboarding and migration projects, including tenancy builds, VM migrations, firewall and connectivity delivery, DR setup, cutover planning, and hypercare.
- Manage carrier and third-party dependencies, including wayleaves, circuit lead times, and supplier notice periods.
Essential Experience
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3+ years' experience managing customer-facing projects, ideally within data centres, cloud services, infrastructure, or similar technical environments.
- Public sector delivery experience, with a working knowledge of PRINCE2.
- Comfortable working with senior stakeholders and customers to agree priorities and timelines.
- Good understanding of project management best practices and documentation.
Key Skills
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The ability to build excellent relationships with both customers and suppliers.
- Highly organised, with strong attention to detail.
- Confident communicator, both written and verbal, with the ability to explain things clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Able to manage multiple projects and priorities at once.
- Comfortable using project management tools (e.g. ServiceNow SPM, MS Project).
Desirable Qualifications
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Recognised project management certification (e.g. PRINCE2, AgilePM, PMP).
- Familiarity with public sector delivery frameworks.
- Awareness of relevant compliance standards (ISO27001, Cyber Essentials Plus).
What You Will Get
Career & Growth
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The chance to help shape a growing PMO function inside a fast-scaling business.
- Direct exposure to every area of the company.
- Training and development throughout your time at DataVita.
Benefits
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Competitive salary.
- 33 days annual leave.
- Pension: 5% employee, 5% employer.
- Life assurance at 4x salary.
- Group income protection at 70% of salary for up to 2 years.
- Help@Hand: remote GP, physiotherapy, nutritionist, and more.
- Cycle to Work and EV car salary sacrifice schemes.
- 6 fully expensed company events per year.
- Option to donate to charity through salary.
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