Senior Project Manager - Data Platform Transformation

Thermo Fisher Scientific India Pvt Ltd; Bengaluru; Vor Ort; INR 3.500.000 - 6.000.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Thermo Fisher Scientific is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead the Data Platform Transformation within MSD Services. You will coordinate cross-functional teams across MSD Services and Corporate IT to ensure the transformation is delivered on scope, schedule, budget and quality.

The role requires strong technology transformation and migration experience with cloud and modern data platforms to effectively manage risks, dependencies and stakeholders across a global enterprise.

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years project/program management experience delivering complex enterprise technology transformations.
• Experience leading data, cloud, data warehouse or application migration programs.
• Strong project planning, critical-path, dependency and risk-management skills.
• Experience managing multi-workstream programs with distributed/onshore-offshore delivery teams.
• Strong financial, resource and delivery management capability.
• Proven experience managing testing, production cutover and operational transition.
• Strong stakeholder management across business, engineering and enterprise IT organizations.
• Ability to drive accountability and delivery across teams without direct organizational authority.

Aufgaben

• Own integrated implementation and migration plan with milestones and dependencies.
• Establish project governance, RACI, delivery cadence and executive reporting.
• Coordinate readiness of the Data Platform for production workloads.
• Lead planning and execution of D2i and BI/data warehouse migrations.
• Manage testing, data reconciliation, UAT and cutover readiness.

Kenntnisse

Project management

Data platform

Cloud migrations

Stakeholder management

Multi-team leadership

Risk management

DevOps awareness

Agile/SAFe

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Databricks

AWS

Jobbeschreibung

Senior Project Manager - Data Platform Transformation Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions Office Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Position Summary

Thermo Fisher Scientific is undertaking a strategic Data Platform Transformation within MSD Services to modernize its data architecture and enable scalable digital services, analytics and future AI capabilities. We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead the planning and delivery of the implementation and migration program. The role will coordinate cross-functional teams across MSD Services and Corporate IT/Enterprise Data Platform teams to ensure the transformation is delivered to agreed scope, schedule, budget and quality. The role requires strong technology transformation and migration experience, with sufficient knowledge of cloud and modern data platforms to effectively manage technical teams, risks and dependencies.

Key Responsibilities & Deliverables

• Project Planning & Governance Own the integrated implementation and migration plan, including milestones, dependencies, resources and critical path.
• Project Planning & Governance Establish project governance, RACI, delivery cadence and executive reporting.
• Project Planning & Governance Maintain RAID, decision and change-control processes.
• Project Planning & Governance Track delivery against scope, schedule, budget and agreed outcomes.
• Project Planning & Governance Manage resource and capacity requirements across participating teams.
• Implementation & Migration Delivery Coordinate readiness of the Data Platform for production workloads.
• Implementation & Migration Delivery Lead planning and execution of D2i (device telemetry) and BI/data warehouse migrations.
• Implementation & Migration Delivery Establish migration waves, priorities, entry/exit criteria and delivery milestones.
• Implementation & Migration Delivery Coordinate activities across Prepare, Design, Plan, Migrate, Go Live and Aftercare.
• Implementation & Migration Delivery Manage testing, data reconciliation, UAT, defect resolution and production readiness.
• Implementation & Migration Delivery Own integrated cutover planning, migration runbooks and go/no-go governance.
• Implementation & Migration Delivery Coordinate legacy decommissioning following successful migration.
• Stakeholder & Dependency Management Act as the central coordination point across MSD Services, EDP/Corporate IT and technical teams.
• Stakeholder & Dependency Management Manage cross-team dependencies, decisions, risks and escalations.
• Stakeholder & Dependency Management Facilitate planning sessions, delivery reviews and steering meetings.
• Stakeholder & Dependency Management Provide clear and concise status reporting to senior leadership.
• Stakeholder & Dependency Management Ensure business continuity and stakeholder requirements are considered throughout migration.
• Operational Transition Ensure operational readiness is incorporated into migration planning.
• Operational Transition Coordinate documentation, runbooks and knowledge transfer.
• Operational Transition Manage handover to the long-term Run & Maintain / DevOps organization.
• Operational Transition Ensure appropriate support and monitoring arrangements are established before go-live.

Key Skills & Experience Essential

• 8+ years project/program management experience delivering complex enterprise technology transformations.
• Demonstrated experience leading data, cloud, data warehouse or application migration programs.
• Strong project planning, critical-path, dependency and risk-management skills.
• Experience managing multi-workstream programs with distributed/onshore-offshore delivery teams.
• Strong financial, resource and delivery management capability.
• Proven experience managing testing, production cutover and operational transition.
• Strong stakeholder management across business, engineering and enterprise IT organizations.
• Ability to drive accountability and delivery across teams without direct organizational authority.

Technical Knowledge

Sufficient technical knowledge to effectively manage and challenge engineering teams, preferably covering:

• Modern data platforms / Lakehouse architecture.
• Databricks and AWS or comparable technologies.
• Data lakes, data warehouses and ETL/ELT.
• Data migration, testing and reconciliation.
• CI/CD and DevOps.
• Data governance, security and data quality.

Technical architecture or engineering expertise is not required; the role is accountable for successful program delivery.

Key Measures of Success

• Delivery against agreed scope, schedule and budget.
• Successful migration of D2i and BI workloads.
• Predictable milestones, resource requirements and financial forecasts.
• Effective management of cross-team dependencies and risks.
• Production cutovers with minimal business/customer disruption.
• Successful operational handover and knowledge transfer.
• Controlled retirement of legacy capabilities following migration.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent project-management certification preferred.
• Agile / SAFe experience desirable.
• Previous experience delivering a major data-platform or cloud transformation within a large global organization strongly preferred.

Experience Level Senior Level