Remote TPM: Data Center & Cloud Modernization

Revel-IT-1; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Revel IT is seeking an experienced Technical Program Manager (remote contractor) to lead the Data Center Consolidation & Cloud Modernization initiative. This remote contractor will orchestrate planning, governance, and execution across a multi-year transformation of data centers, virtualization, and cloud migration.

The TPM will partner with Product Management, Architecture, Engineering, Operations, Security, Finance, and external vendors to deliver integrated roadmaps, manage risks, and measure

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience leading large-scale, cross-functional technology programs.
• Proven experience managing infrastructure, platform engineering, cloud, data center, or enterprise modernization initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience migrating on-premises workloads to a public cloud platform; Azure experience preferred.
• Working knowledge of hybrid cloud, virtualization, compute, storage, networking, DR, and operational readiness.
• Experience building integrated roadmaps and managing dependencies across Architecture, Engineering, Operations, Security, Finance, vendors, and applications.
• Strong executive communication, facilitation, financial management, risk management, and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end planning and execution across data center exits, workload migration, platform modernization, capacity readiness, and operational transition.
• Establish integrated program governance, decision forums, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and escalation paths.
• Maintain a multi-year roadmap that connects infrastructure modernization, cloud migration, facility exits, technology rationalization, and end-of-life remediation.
• Drive alignment across stakeholders and ensure interdependent workstreams operate as one coordinated program.
• Coordinate classification and migration of on-premises workloads using a structured approach such as the 7Rs, including waves and readiness.
• Partner with technical teams on hybrid cloud, compute, virtualization, storage, networking, resiliency, disaster recovery alignment, and capacity planning.
• Drive plans for platform transitions, equipment moves, infrastructure retirements, site decommissioning, and operational handoff.
• Ensure migration plans include testing, cutover, rollback, service continuity, security, and application validation requirements.
• Partner with Product Managers and technology leaders to clarify the initiative vision, outcomes, value proposition, investments, and success measures.
• Translate strategic objectives into epics, milestones, roadmaps, and sequenced delivery plans.
• Support business cases and prioritization decisions balancing modernization, technical debt, risk reduction, resiliency, cost savings, and capacity.
• Use feedback to refine priorities and improve the future-state platform and service model.
• Provide concise executive reporting on delivery health, financial performance, decisions, dependencies, risks, and milestones.
• Coordinate affected stakeholders across migrations, outages, testing, or facility exits.
• Track budgets, forecasts, vendor commitments, benefit assumptions, cost avoidance, and savings realization.
• Manage vendor and partner dependencies, including statements of work, deliverables, procurement timelines, and acceptance criteria.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Infrastructure modernization

Cloud migration

Vendor management

Executive communication

Job description

Revel IT is seeking an experienced Technical Program Manager (remote contractor) to lead the Data Center Consolidation & Cloud Modernization initiative. This remote contractor will orchestrate planning, governance, and execution across a multi-year transformation of data centers, virtualization, and cloud migration.

The TPM will partner with Product Management, Architecture, Engineering, Operations, Security, Finance, and external vendors to deliver integrated roadmaps, manage risks, and measure