Senior IT Project Manager - Network Migration & CENELEC

Project overview

For an exciting project with our client in Bern (with a remote component per week), we are looking for a Senior IT Project Manager - Network Migration & CENELEC.

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• Define and agree on project scope, objectives, and boundaries with stakeholders
• Establish transparency regarding applications and services to be migrated and consolidate existing foundations
• Ensure that relevant processes, specifications, and frameworks are known and considered in the project
• Ensure that the necessary foundations and artifacts for type approval are available in a timely manner
• Incorporate results and decisions from type approval into subsequent work packages
• Make dependencies, risks, and decision requirements transparent and address them in the project
• Coordinate the further development of the change process for safety-relevant functions with the functionally responsible party
• Ensure that the required inputs from the program and the involved specialist departments are available
• Consider the impact on migration, approval, and safety evidence across the board
• Feed relevant results and decisions back into the overall project and subsequent work packages
• Coordinate the required contributions to safety evidence with the functionally responsible parties
• Ensure that necessary evidence work is planned, commissioned, and coordinated in a timely manner
• Coordinate contributions from involved departments and partners as well as the required assessment
• Align dependencies, deadlines, and results with other work packages
• Coordinate the migration planning with the functionally responsible party and integrate it into the overall project
• Ensure that prerequisites and results from approval, change process, and evidence management are incorporated into the migration planning in a timely manner
• Feed insights from concrete migrations and pilot projects back into the relevant work packages
• Make overarching dependencies, risks, and decision requirements transparent and track their resolution
• Clarify and document roles, responsibilities, and interfaces with the involved departments
• Appropriately regulate the storage, versioning, and governance of relevant project results and evidence
• Ensure the coordinated transfer of clarified roles, processes, and responsibilities to the responsible organizations
• Plan, structure, and manage the overall project according to the mandate and program roadmap
• Take responsibility for agreed project results, deadlines, budget, risks, and quality
• Manage work packages and their interfaces and dependencies across the board
• Coordinate involved stakeholders from railway technology, energy, telecommunications, safety, engineering, and operations
• Ensure the flow of information and results between work packages and responsible organizational units
• Communicate project progress, risks, and action requirements and report to program management
• Several years of experience in managing technically and organizationally demanding projects, ideally in the railway environment
• Experience in the CENELEC environment or with development, change, or evidence processes for safety-relevant systems
• Sound knowledge of classic project management methods and experience in a complex corporate or organizational environment
• Experience in managing multiple functionally responsible work packages and their dependencies
• Ability to align different specialist areas and stakeholders towards common project goals, even without direct line management responsibility
• Structured and independent way of working, as well as strong communication, moderation, and problem-solving skills
• Basic understanding of data networks and their technical interrelationships
• Open and communicative personality with a quick grasp of things
• Fluent German and English language skills, both written and spoken
• Experience with approval, safety, or evidence processes in the railway environment
• Proficient with migrations of applications or services to new technical platforms
• Assignment duration: immediately or by arrangement until the end of April 2027 (3-6 months) with an option for extension
• Workload: 80-100%
• Location: Bern & Remote (per week)

Project details

16.11.2026

6 months /

Utilization: 100 %

Type of assignment:

Bern

Country: Switzerland

• Start: 2026-11-16
• Duration: 6 Monate /
• Remote: onsite
• Location: Bern, Schweiz, CH
• Languages: German