Cloud Migration Program Lead | Azure & 365 Expert

Al Tayer Group; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Al Tayer Group in Dubai, UAE seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead cloud migration initiatives and oversee post-migration operations across multi-cloud and on-premises environments.

The role demands extensive PMO leadership, vendor management, and coordination of 20+ workstreams with budgets over AED 10m, delivering Azure-centric and Microsoft 365 transformation, security and governance programs.

Qualifications

• 12-15+ years of IT experience with enterprise programmes.
• Experience managing budgets of AED 10m+ and 20+ workstreams.
• Proven Azure migration and Microsoft 365 transformation delivery.
• Experience in Retail, Automotive, Distribution or Enterprise Shared Services environments is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business, IT, finance, QA, audit and vendor teams to strategize migration to cloud-based solutions.
• Establish a project plan, baseline the plan, manage schedule and resource load, and project operation budget.
• Define acceptance criteria for deliverables and secure sign-off.
• Establish governance processes for decision-making and stakeholder communication.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure seamless migration and post-migration operations.
• Identify risks and mitigation strategies and provide regular status reports to leadership.
• Drive on-time delivery within budget and quality standards while minimizing disruption.
• Lead multi-workstream programmes (20+ workstreams, AED 10m+ budgets) and oversee vendor partners.

Skills

Project management

Cloud migration

Azure

AWS

Vendor management

Stakeholder management

Multi-cloud governance

PMO experience

Budget management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Nagios

Zabbix

VMware

Hyper-V

Azure

AWS

Microsoft 365

Job description

Al Tayer Group in Dubai, UAE seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead cloud migration initiatives and oversee post-migration operations across multi-cloud and on-premises environments.

The role demands extensive PMO leadership, vendor management, and coordination of 20+ workstreams with budgets over AED 10m, delivering Azure-centric and Microsoft 365 transformation, security and governance programs.