Datacenter Migration Lead — Banking IT Transformation (Hybrid)

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Brussel; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation in Belgium seeks a Datacenter Migration Lead to steer a large-scale, end-to-end infrastructure migration and datacenter exit for a major bank. You will drive discovery, planning, cutover, stabilization and sign-off, coordinating with client executives and vendor teams.

You will act as the primary delivery lead, managing governance, budgets and schedules, ensuring a smooth migration across compute, storage, network, databases and platforms, with a focus

Qualifications

• Extensive IT infrastructure leadership of large datacenter migrations.
• Experience migrating 1,000+ workloads and managing cutover.
• Knowledge of datacenter technologies: compute, virtualization, storage, networking, DR, databases.
• Hands-on with migration methods/tools: P2V/V2V, VMware HCX, Zerto, cloud migration services.
• Strong client-facing and governance/risks management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end datacenter migration programs, from discovery to exit.
• Own migration runbooks, cutover and rollback plans, go/no-go criteria, validation.
• Act as trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders on delivery and risks.
• Coordinate Cognizant architects across cloud, network, security, database, mainframe, app modernization.
• Establish scalable migration factory practices and reusable assets.

Skills

Datacenter migration

Infrastructure leadership

Stakeholder management

Cloud/modernization

Regulatory awareness

Banking sector experience

Migration tools knowledge

Tools

VMware HCX

Zerto

Azure Migrate

AWS Application Migration Service

ServiceNow Discovery

Device42

Flexera

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation in Belgium seeks a Datacenter Migration Lead to steer a large-scale, end-to-end infrastructure migration and datacenter exit for a major bank. You will drive discovery, planning, cutover, stabilization and sign-off, coordinating with client executives and vendor teams.

You will act as the primary delivery lead, managing governance, budgets and schedules, ensuring a smooth migration across compute, storage, network, databases and platforms, with a focus