Senior Datacenter Migration Lead (Hybrid, Belgium)

Cognizant; Brussel; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Datacenter Migration Lead in Belgium to drive a complex, large-scale infrastructure migration and datacenter exit for a major bank. You will lead end-to-end migration activities, coordinating with executives, architects, and delivery teams to ensure a successful migration.

You will oversee discovery, planning, cutover, stabilization, and final sign-off, serving as the client’s primary accountability for migration delivery, with hybrid work expectations (2–3 days in

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in IT infrastructure and operations with end-to-end leadership of large datacenter migration programs.
• Proven experience delivering migrations involving thousands of workloads and cutover/stabilization ownership.
• Strong knowledge of datacenter tech: compute, virtualization, storage, networking, backup, DR, databases and middleware.
• Hands-on knowledge of migration methods/tools: P2V/V2V, VMware HCX, Zerto, cloud migration services.
• Strong client-facing/stakeholder management, able to communicate risks and decisions to leadership.
• Experience migrating core banking/payments/trading platforms within regulated financial institutions in EU/Belgium.
• Fluent in English; eligible to work in Belgium.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end datacenter migration programs including discovery, dependency mapping, and wave planning.
• Own migration runbooks, cutover plans, go/no-go criteria and post-migration validation.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across application, infra, database, network, security and vendors.
• Act as trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders; manage governance, risks, schedules and budgets.
• Coordinate Cognizant architects across cloud, network, security, database, mainframe and app modernization.

Skills

Datacenter migration

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Migration tools

Cloud & network familiarity

Regulatory knowledge

Tools

VMware HCX

Zerto

Azure Migrate

AWS Application Migration Service

ServiceNow Discovery

Device42

Flexera

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Datacenter Migration Lead in Belgium to drive a complex, large-scale infrastructure migration and datacenter exit for a major bank. You will lead end-to-end migration activities, coordinating with executives, architects, and delivery teams to ensure a successful migration.

You will oversee discovery, planning, cutover, stabilization, and final sign-off, serving as the client’s primary accountability for migration delivery, with hybrid work expectations (2–3 days in