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Luke Ingham

Chartered IT programme & project manager

Verified email Founding Contractor · 2026

Contractor snapshot

Primary specialism Project & Programme Management
Location / working location London
Current availability Available now Confirmed 13 Aug 2026
Profile status Active contractor profile

Professional profile

A highly capable Chartered IT programme and project manager who manages large, complex technology initiatives end-to-end — delivering effective global solutions that save organisations money, time and risk exposure. Brings significant programme and project experience across investment banking and financial services, quickly establishing control of new and in-flight programmes, building strong stakeholder relationships up to board level, and delivering outcomes on time by nurturing high-performing teams while closely managing scope, risk and issues. Provides continual assurance of programme integrity using industry best practice and in-house governance frameworks.

Core skills

Planning stakeholder management delivery governance cloud technologies infrastructure architecture service management team management reporting documentation

What I’m looking for next

Target roles: Programme Manager · Senior Project Manager · Delivery Lead

Contract preferences

Working preferenceRemote · Hybrid
Will workLondon, Essex
IR35 preferenceOutside IR35 · Inside IR35
SenioritySenior
Contract length6–12 months
IT experience27 years
Contracting experience12 years
Available from13 Aug 2026

Relevant work experience

Chartered IT programme/project manager and service-readiness lead with 10+ years delivering complex global transformation across investment banking, asset management, financial services and public-sector savings. Leads end-to-end planning, governance, RAID, budgets, vendors, engineering teams, solution approval, cutover, operational readiness and stakeholder engagement to C-level. Programmes span cloud migration, ITSM, data lakes, email, IAM, modern desktop and legacy-platform retirement. Technologies include GCP, Azure, M365/Exchange, ServiceNow, ITIL, Kubernetes, AD/MIM, SharePoint, VDI and Agile/Kanban. Outcomes include rescuing red programmes, launching a 112,000-user cloud email service, enabling 290,000 deployments across 63 countries, retiring 350+ servers and 19,000+ mailboxes, and delivering governance-ready, resilient services.

Experience & credentials

Certifications, sector experience and security clearance are self-declared unless specifically marked as independently verified by IT Contractors UK.

Sector experience

Financial Services · Government

Certifications

Atlassian Agile Project Management Professional Certificate (2024) · Google Professional Cloud Architect (2024) · Google Associate Cloud Engineer (2024) · Google Cloud Digital Leader (2023) · APM Chartered Project Professional (2021–ongoing) · Azure Architect Design AZ-304 (2021) · Azure Architect Technologies AZ-303 (2021) · Microsoft 365 Fundamentals (2020) · Praxis Framework Practitioner (2019) · Certified ScrumMaster (2019) · AgilePM Practitioner (2017) · ITIL Service Strategy (2014)

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