Sr. Technology Project Manager

Strategic Staffing Solutions; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Staffing Solutions in Charlotte, NC, seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead a large-scale enterprise data platform modernization and migration initiative. This role will drive the retirement of the Hadoop ecosystem, coordinating migrations of applications, data assets, workloads, and platform services to strategic target-state platforms, including cloud environments.

You will manage complex programs with multiple teams and senior stakeholders, ensuring governance, risk

Qualifications

• 10+ years of project, program, or portfolio management experience within large-scale enterprise technology environments.
• Strong Technical Program Manager background.
• Proven experience leading large-scale enterprise migration programs.
• Experience managing infrastructure transformation, data platform modernization, cloud migration, application migration, or data center exit initiatives.
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead a large-scale enterprise data platform modernization and migration initiative.
• Oversee retirement of a legacy Hadoop ecosystem and migration of applications, data assets, workloads, and platform services to target-state platforms.
• Coordinate multi-year programs with numerous technical teams and senior stakeholders; manage strategy through execution; govern risk and financials.

Skills

Technical Program Management

Enterprise migrations

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Risk governance

Executive communications

Tools

GCP

AWS

Azure

Job description

Senior Technical Project Manager

Primary Location: Charlotte, NC
Work Model: Hybrid
Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM
Pay:

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Technical Program Manager / Senior Technology Project Manager to lead a large-scale enterprise data platform modernization and migration initiative.

This role will drive the retirement of a legacy Hadoop ecosystem and coordinate the migration of applications, data assets, workloads, and platform services to strategic target-state platforms, including cloud and modern enterprise data environments.

The ideal candidate brings significant experience managing complex enterprise technology migrations, infrastructure transformation programs, platform decommissioning, and multi-year initiatives involving numerous technical teams and senior stakeholders.

This is a highly visible leadership role requiring someone who can manage the program from strategy through execution while navigating technical dependencies, risk, financial governance, executive reporting, and organizational change.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of project, program, or portfolio management experience within large-scale enterprise technology environments.
• Strong Technical Program Manager or senior technology project management background.
• Proven experience leading large-scale enterprise migration programs.
• Experience managing infrastructure transformation, data platform modernization, cloud migration, application migration, or data center/platform exit initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex programs with multiple technical workstreams and dependencies.
• Experience managing multimillion-dollar programs involving senior executives, technology teams, business stakeholders, and third-party vendors.
• Strong understanding of enterprise technology environments, data platforms, infrastructure, and cloud transformation.
• Expertise in program governance, risk management, dependency management, financial management, and executive reporting.
• Experience working with Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise Hadoop migration or retirement programs.
• Knowledge of Hadoop ecosystem technologies such as:
  • Hadoop/HDFS
  • Hortonworks
  • Cloudera
  • MapR
  • Hive
  • Spark
  • Oozie
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, AWS, or enterprise private-cloud environments.
• Understanding of enterprise data engineering, ETL modernization, data governance, and analytics platforms.
• Experience leading large-scale infrastructure decommissioning, application retirement, or technology rationalization initiatives.
• Experience managing technology risk associated with legacy and end-of-life platforms.
• PMP, PgMP, SAFe, Agile, Scrum, or equivalent professional certification.