Project Manager Data Migration

Creative Solutions Services, LLC; Middletown Township (PA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Creative Solutions Services, LLC in Middletown, PA, seeks an experienced Project Manager specialized in data migration to lead enterprise-scale initiatives. You will plan, execute, monitor, and deliver data migration activities, coordinating across business stakeholders, data architects, vendors, and IT teams to minimize business disruption.

The role requires strong governance, risk management, and cutover planning, with a track record of successful migrations, data quality controls, and proven

Qualifications

• 8+ years of IT project management experience, with data migration focus.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end data migration projects from planning through cutover.
• Develop and maintain project plans, milestones, dependencies, and resource plans.
• Coordinate with Data Migration, ETL, Data Architecture, Application, QA, Business, Infrastructure, and Production Support teams.
• Define migration scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, and success criteria.
• Manage migration activities including data extraction, transformation, cleansing, mapping, validation, reconciliation, loading, and cutover.
• Coordinate multiple migration waves and ensure readiness for each migration cycle.
• Establish and track data migration milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, and action items.
• Work with technical teams to monitor ETL/data migration development and testing progress.
• Coordinate SIT, UAT, mock migrations, dress rehearsals, production migration, and post-migration validation.
• Ensure data quality, completeness, accuracy, and reconciliation requirements are met before production cutover.
• Develop and manage cutover plans, rollback plans, migration runbooks, and contingency plans.
• Identify project risks and proactively develop mitigation and contingency strategies.

Skills

Data Migration

Project Management

Enterprise IT

Stakeholder Management

Agile/Scrum

Tools

ETL Tools

Data Modeling

Jira

Job description

Job Title: Project Manager – Data Migration

Location: Middletown, PA (Hybrid)

Duration; Long Term

Note: Hybrid work environment is expected to be primarily remote off-site with one or two week per month on-site in Middletown, PA; varying with project needs.

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager with strong Data Migration experience to lead and manage end-to-end data migration initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record managing complex enterprise data migration projects, coordinating cross-functional teams, managing project timelines and risks, and ensuring successful migration with minimal business disruption.

The Project Manager will work closely with business stakeholders, technical teams, data architects, application teams, vendors, and leadership to plan, execute, monitor, and deliver data migration activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end data migration projects, from planning and assessment through migration, validation, cutover, and post-migration support.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, and resource plans.
• Coordinate with Data Migration, ETL, Data Architecture, Application, QA, Business, Infrastructure, and Production Support teams.
• Define migration scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, and success criteria.
• Manage migration activities including data extraction, transformation, cleansing, mapping, validation, reconciliation, loading, and cutover.
• Coordinate multiple migration waves and ensure readiness for each migration cycle.
• Establish and track data migration milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, and action items.
• Work with technical teams to monitor ETL/data migration development and testing progress.
• Coordinate SIT, UAT, mock migrations, dress rehearsals, production migration, and post-migration validation.
• Ensure data quality, completeness, accuracy, and reconciliation requirements are met before production cutover.
• Develop and manage cutover plans, rollback plans, migration runbooks, and contingency plans.
• Identify project risks and proactively develop mitigation and contingency strategies.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in IT Project Management, with significant experience managing Data Migration projects.
• Proven experience leading enterprise-scale data migration or application modernization initiatives.
• Strong understanding of the data migration lifecycle, including extraction, transformation, cleansing, mapping, validation, reconciliation, loading, and cutover.
• Experience managing multiple migration waves and complex dependencies.
• Experience coordinating technical teams including Data Engineers, ETL Developers, Data Architects, QA, Business Analysts, and Application teams.
• Strong experience with project planning, risk management, issue management, dependency tracking, and stakeholder management.
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or hybrid project methodologies.
• Strong communication, leadership, presentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working with distributed onshore/offshore teams.

Preferred Certifications

• PMP
• PMI-ACP
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
• SAFe certification
• ITIL certification