Data Center Migration Manager — Banking & Cloud Transformation

EY; New York (NY); On-site; USD 139,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k)

Paid time off options

Job summary

EY seeks an experienced Manager to lead complex data center and Cloud infrastructure transformations for financial services clients in NYC. The role requires deep knowledge of infrastructure stacks, migration governance, and risk-aware execution across facilities, networks, compute, storage, and cyber domains.

You will direct multi-team efforts, challenge assumptions, and ensure formal readiness, testing, and cutover plans are executed with discipline.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or related discipline.
• At least 7 years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, data center or Cloud transformation, migrations, operations, resiliency or technology consulting.
• Leadership on at least one complex Cloud or data center consolidation, exit, colocation move or infrastructure migration involving business-critical workloads.
• Experience communicating with senior technology, risk, business and operations stakeholders in a controlled change environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead assessment of data center and Cloud hosted compute, virtualization, storage, network, load balancing, DNS/IPAM, backup, recovery, monitoring, security, platform and support dependencies.
• Define or validate hosting, workload-placement, consolidation, exit and migration strategies across enterprise-owned data centers, colocation and cloud environments.
• Direct discovery, CMDB reconciliation, dependency mapping, disposition decisions, migration-wave design, and detailed cutover planning.
• Establish migration-factory and control-tower governance, including entry/exit criteria, wave plans, readiness evidence, RAID management, decision forums and executive reporting.
• Lead planning for virtualization, physical, platform, storage, network, database and application moves, including rollback and continuity requirements.
• Drive go/no-go decisions based on testing, connectivity, replication, security, observability, support coverage, recovery, business validation and change approvals.
• Oversee cutover command, escalation, validation, hypercare, transition to operations, exit and decommission tracking.
• Connect data center capacity, rack/room readiness, network availability and facility commissioning milestones to migration sequencing.
• Advise leaders on service continuity, operational resilience, recovery objectives, concentration risk, dependencies and trade-offs.
• Lead EY and client teams, economics, quality, methods, accelerators, proposals and market development.

Skills

Data center infra

Cloud migration

Leadership

Governance

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

ServiceNow CMDB/ITSM/ITOM

VMware HCX

Azure/AWS migration tools

Jira/Azure DevOps

Power BI

Job description

EY seeks an experienced Manager to lead complex data center and Cloud infrastructure transformations for financial services clients in NYC. The role requires deep knowledge of infrastructure stacks, migration governance, and risk-aware execution across facilities, networks, compute, storage, and cyber domains.

You will direct multi-team efforts, challenge assumptions, and ensure formal readiness, testing, and cutover plans are executed with discipline.