Archival Program Lead — Enterprise Data & Compliance

Computer Task Group; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 103,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

CTG is seeking an experienced Archival Project Manager to lead enterprise data and application archiving initiatives, focusing on retirement strategies, data governance, and regulatory compliance.

You will coordinate cross-functional teams, manage decommissioning projects, and establish retention requirements across applications, databases, and content repositories, while reporting to senior leadership and guiding audits and vendor implementations.

Qualifications

• PMP certification required.
• 5+ years leading enterprise IT PM initiatives.
• 5+ years managing legacy archival, application retirement, data retention, or decommissioning programs.
• Strong records management, information governance, and data lifecycle knowledge.
• Experience developing archival strategies for enterprise applications, databases, and document repositories.
• Demonstrated success managing large cross-functional projects with business, legal, compliance and technical teams.
• Experience with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid PM methodologies.
• Strong risk, stakeholder, and executive communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex archival and legacy system retirement projects from planning through execution.
• Develop and implement enterprise archival strategies for applications, databases, and unstructured content.
• Partner with business stakeholders, compliance teams, legal departments, and IT leadership to establish retention and disposition requirements.
• Create project plans, schedules, risk mitigation strategies, and communication plans.
• Coordinate data extraction, migration, validation, and archival activities across multiple technology platforms.
• Manage application decommissioning initiatives while ensuring continued access to historical records.
• Facilitate governance reviews and ensure adherence to regulatory, legal, and organizational data retention policies.
• Oversee vendor relationships and third-party archival solution implementations.
• Conduct stakeholder meetings, status reporting, and executive-level project updates.
• Identify and mitigate project risks related to data integrity, security, compliance, and business continuity.
• Establish success metrics and documentation for archival projects and system retirement efforts.
• Support audits and regulatory inquiries related to archived data and retired applications.

Skills

PMP certification

PM experience

Legacy decommissioning

Records governance

Archival strategies

Cross-functional leadership

PM methodologies

Stakeholder management

Job description

CTG is seeking an experienced Archival Project Manager to lead enterprise data and application archiving initiatives, focusing on retirement strategies, data governance, and regulatory compliance.

You will coordinate cross-functional teams, manage decommissioning projects, and establish retention requirements across applications, databases, and content repositories, while reporting to senior leadership and guiding audits and vendor implementations.