NOW HIRING: SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER CLOUD MIGRATION & DATA CENTER
Role: Senior Project Manager Cloud Migration & Data Center
Location: Remote
Experience: 15+ Years
Work Authorization: W2 ONLY | USC
Focus: Enterprise Cloud Migration | Data Center Exit | Infrastructure Modernization
Position Summary
We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead large-scale enterprise cloud migration initiatives supporting the modernization of business-critical applications, infrastructure, and technology services. This role will oversee complex, multi-year programs involving cloud adoption, workload migrations, infrastructure modernization, legacy platform retirement, and data center exit activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the planning and execution of enterprise cloud migration programs, including application, infrastructure, network, and platform migrations.
- Develop and manage integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, roadmaps, and executive reporting.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams including infrastructure, cloud engineering, architecture, security, application development, operations, and business stakeholders.
- Manage all phases of cloud migration initiatives, including discovery, assessment, planning, design, migration, testing, cutover, stabilization, and operational transition.
- Facilitate workload assessment, dependency mapping, migration wave planning, and cloud readiness activities.
- Establish program governance frameworks, project controls, communication plans, and executive-level reporting.
- Identify, document, and mitigate risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies across the migration program.
- Lead stakeholder alignment and executive steering committee meetings to ensure timely decisions and successful program execution.
- Monitor project financials, resource planning, vendor activities, and program performance metrics.
- Coordinate change management, communication, training, and operational readiness efforts to support successful adoption.
- Manage migration cutovers, validation activities, and post-migration stabilization efforts.
- Lead legacy infrastructure retirement initiatives, including application transitions, asset disposition planning, hardware retirement, and decommissioning activities.
- Coordinate data center exit planning and execution, ensuring workloads are successfully migrated and dependencies are addressed prior to facility shutdown.
- Ensure all migration, governance, operational transition, and decommissioning documentation is maintained throughout the program lifecycle.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field.
- 10+ years of project or program management experience leading complex enterprise technology initiatives.
- 5+ years of experience managing cloud migration, infrastructure modernization, or data center migration programs.
- Demonstrated experience leading large-scale cloud adoption initiatives involving multiple business units and technology teams.
- Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure, networking, virtualization, storage, cloud platforms, and application architectures.
- Experience managing complex project dependencies, migration schedules, and cross‑functional stakeholders.
- Strong knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid project delivery methodologies.
- Exceptional Communication, Executive Presentation, Facilitation, And Stakeholder Management Skills.
- Experience managing budgets, forecasts, vendor relationships, and program governance activities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting migrations to AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience leading enterprise cloud migrations involving hundreds of applications and infrastructure services.
- Experience with data center consolidation, relocation, modernization, or exit initiatives.
- Knowledge of application portfolio management, CMDB processes, workload assessment, and migration planning methodologies.
- PMP, PgMP, SAFe, PMI-ACP, or equivalent certificati
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