IT Infrastructure Project Manager (Data Centre Migration)

D L Resources Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT professional services firm in Singapore is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead a large-scale Data Centre Migration Project. The role involves overseeing vendor management, project governance, and compliance, ensuring all requirements and risks are effectively managed. Candidates should have over 10 years of experience in project management, particularly within banking or financial services, and possess excellent leadership and presentation skills.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years experience in project management in banking, financial, or consulting industries.
• Experience managing large-scale data migration projects.
• Excellent presentation skills for C-level stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a Data Centre Migration Project.
• Oversee vendor migration tracks and ensure progress tracking.
• Manage project risks and implement mitigation plans.
• Prepare project proposals and reports for stakeholders.

Skills

Project management

Problem-solving

Team leadership

Presentation skills

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT, business, finance, or equivalent

Professional certifications (PMP, Prince2)

Job description

Key Responsibilities:

Overall Project Management:

- Lead and manage a large-scale Data Centre Migration Project involving the transition of close to 10,000 virtual machines from a single incumbent technology provider to two new external providers, within a hypervisor-based environment.

- Oversee one of the two vendor migration tracks, based on a workload distribution ratio of approximately 40%–60% between the two platforms, ensuring clear accountability, progress tracking, and vendor performance management.

- Drive the project across its full lifecycle (estimated 2.5 years), covering planning, infrastructure design, build, cutover, and post-migration stabilization, in compliance with the bank’s regulatory, security, and risk management frameworks.

- Responsible for coordinating with infra delivery resources required to complete the infrastructure build, and implementation, working with the infrastructure architects, the engineering team and the build team.

- Highlight and propose a revised plan if there is a conflicting resource, timeline or unrealistic expectation of infrastructure delivery/build time.

- Monitor and analyse the implementation of each infrastructure project. Recommend re-prioritisation based on the sensitivity, urgency, priority, and type of projects (e.g. compliance/regulatory) and the approval requirement.

- Consolidate the plan against the actual end-to-end cost required to deliver infrastructure projects. Recommend optimization of cost by consolidating similar infrastructure components and timelines.

- Responsible and track the quality, scope, timeline, effort (co-related to estimation, CR’s, complexity), resources (includes Technology Operations department , business, contractor, Professional Services resources as well as operations),

- Develop and execute the overall project plan and analyse project proposals which impacts the schedule and budget variance which in turn contribute to meeting the overall objectives of the project.

- Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones and required activities and tasks.

Stakeholder Management & Vendor Management:

- Partner respective project stakeholders for collaboration and manage external vendors.

- Collaborate with infrastructure architects, engineering teams, and build teams to plan infrastructure sizing, validate technical designs, and ensure timely execution of the build and implementation activities.

Scope Management:

- Manage all changes to the agreed scope of work Review and assess all changes and impact to timeline and ensure all changes are approved by PSC

Project Governance & Compliance:

- Prepare and present investment decks for project approvals at ITC/TPWC. Organize and lead PSC and Project Working Committee (PWC) meetings. Ensure strict adherence to process assurance gates, regulatory and audit requirements, and bank-wide development methodologies applicable to financial institutions.

Risk & Issue Management:

- Manage overall project risk, track risk aging, work through escalations, change governance and related issues. Implement the risk mitigation plans.

Project Reporting:

- Measure, monitor and report progress to stakeholders at various levels of organization across the enterprise with the right quality, consistency in content.

- Implement project communication plan and review status reports prepared by project personnel and modify schedules or plans as required

Requirements:

Technical Skills & Experience

- Bachelor’s degree in IT, business, finance, or equivalent.

- At least 10 years experience in project management in banking, financial, consulting industries with proven track record.

- Good problem solver and stay on top of the project risks and issues till closure.

- Good team player and is able to exercise formal and informal ways to lead the vertical teams in achieving the common project targets.

- Excellent presentation skills and able to front with the senior stakeholders at C level.

- Passionate, diligent, and resilient individual with ability if thrive in ambiguity.

- Previous exposure in managing Large Scale Data Migration Projects involving physical machines and virtual machine in the regulatory landscape for banks/financial services institution and with technological know-how for data centre servers.

Education

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or similar domain

- Related professional/technical qualification will be advantageous although not mandatory

- Good to have PMP, Prince2 certification

About us:
D L Resources Pte Ltd is a leading provider of IT Professional Services & Banking outsourced staffing solutions, serving a diverse portfolio of clients across various industries including Financial Services Institutions, Banks & MNCs.


Interested candidates may reach out directly to our recruiters on whatsapp (Edwin: [phone] | EA License No: 24C2333 | EA Personnel No: R24123520)