Viaccess-Orca (VO) is a leading provider of end-to-end TV platforms, OTT and content-protection solutions, deployed at over 100 customers in more than 35 countries as part of the Orange Group. We are seeking a Senior Project Manager – Platform Modernisation to drive the transformation of our legacy platform into a resilient microservices architecture spanning on-premises, private-cloud, and hybrid environments. This highly complex role requires exemplary leadership skills and the ability to collaborate across global, multi-disciplinary teams to deliver multiple parallel-running projects on-time, on-scope and within budget. A solid background on cloud and container-based architectures is a plus.
Role Overview
As Senior Project Manager, you will manage the end-to-end delivery of VO’s modernization initiative, defining the roadmap, coordinating architecture, development, QA, and operations teams, and shepherding the solution through planning, execution, and go-live. You will liaise directly with executive stakeholders, third-party vendors, and internal owners to ensure alignment on scope, risk mitigation, budget, and success criteria.
What You’ll Do
- Roadmap & Planning: Develop and maintain the modernization roadmap with detailed timelines, resource allocations, and risk registers.
- Project Tracking & Analysis: Leverage integrated real-time dashboards (e.g., Power BI, Jira Analytics) combined with predictive analytics to continuously monitor KPIs, such as schedule and budget variance, and forecast potential risks, enabling proactive mitigation and data-informed decision-making across stakeholders
- Stakeholder Management: Serve as the primary point of contact for senior leadership, clients, and vendors; facilitate steering-committee meetings and status updates.
- Deployment Coordination: Coordinate between planning and execution for migrations and rollouts between project managers for involved customers
- Risk Monitoring & Control – Emphasizes continuous oversight of project risks and test outcomes, plus the development and execution of rollback and run-book procedures.
Must-Have Qualifications
- 5+ years’ proven experience managing large-scale technical transformation projects (modernisation, migration).
- Expert Jira skills: design custom workflows, boards, automation rules and analytics dashboards to drive visibility and on-time delivery.
- Advanced data-analysis capability: extract and interpret delivery metrics (cycle time, earned value, defect leakage) using, Excel, Power BI or equivalent.
- Mandatory Project-Management certification: PMP®, PRINCE2 Practitioner, AgilePM® or equivalent.
- Infrastructure expertise: hands-on experience orchestrating on-premises and private-cloud environments (e.g., Kubernetes, Helm, PV/PVC strategies)
- Strong intercultural communication skills and proven ability to perform under both internal and customer pressure.
- Language skills: English fluency (written & spoken); proficiency in French is a significant advantage
- Flexibility to work occasional Fridays and travel up to ~20% for kick-offs, audits and go-lives.
Why Join Us
You’ll play a pivotal role in transforming our flagship platform into a microservices ecosystem, gaining deep expertise in microservices, containerization and cloud-native operations, while working alongside seasoned professionals in a collaborative, forward-leaning environment.
