Project Manager (Data Centre Migration) - Contract

ALPHAEUS PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services company in Singapore is seeking a Project Manager to lead a large-scale Data Centre Migration Project. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in project management, particularly in the banking and financial sectors, and must demonstrate a proven track record in managing large scale data migrations. This role requires excellent stakeholder management and risk mitigation skills to ensure compliance with regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in project management in banking, financial, consulting industries.
• 5+ years managing large scale data center migrations with over 2000 servers.
• Ability to manage project risks and issues till closure.

Responsibilities

• Lead Data Centre Migration Project involving 10,000 virtual machines.
• Oversee vendor migration tracks and manage project lifecycle.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, security, and risk management frameworks.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Vendor management

Problem solving

Team leadership

Presentation skills

Education

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

Job description

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 current incumbent technology provider to two new technology providers, within a hypervisor-based environment.
• Lead and manage migration of physical servers, storage, network equipment and appliances between Data Centres.
• Oversee the two vendor migration tracks, based on a workload distribution ratio of approximately 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 resolve any 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 GTO, 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, 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

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.
• Must have more than 5 years of proven experience in managing large scale data center, infrastructure and application migrations involving > 2000 servers.
• Good problem solver and stay on top of the project risks and issues till closure.
• Good team player and can 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 machines in the regulatory landscape for banks/financial services institution and with technological know-how for datacenter servers.