Technical Program Manager – Data Center Modernization

ViziRecruiter,LLC.; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in Charlotte, NC, is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager for a 6-12 month contract. You will provide program oversight for a multi-data center modernization initiative, ensuring synchronization across multiple teams. The ideal candidate has over 10 years of experience in technical program management and possesses a strong understanding of enterprise data center architecture. This hybrid role offers competitive compensation based on qualifications and experience.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in technical program management, infrastructure leadership, or large-scale IT transformation.
• Experience leading complex data center or infrastructure modernization programs.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data center architecture, including compute, storage, networking, and virtualization.

Responsibilities

• Provide program oversight for a multi-data center modernization initiative.
• Establish and maintain program structure, timelines, and milestones.
• Serve as the technical liaison between engineering teams and stakeholders.

Skills

Technical Program Management

Stakeholder Management

Risk Identification

Job description

Introduction

Be part of the team that drives our company forward, transforming ideas into real‑world tools and platforms that support the business and spur innovation.

Overview

What We Do

We calm the confusion of IT by guiding the connection between people and technology. If a customer is looking for a better way to manage their warehouse inventory, equip their workforce, or secure their data, we make it happen. All it takes is finding the right combination of tech hardware, software, cloud solutions, and support services. That’s what we do. We’re the IT Department’s IT Department.

This is a 6‑12‑month contract role. Could get extended longer. Hybrid to Charlotte, NC location.

Pay range per hour: Open per qualifications and experience.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

We are seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to support a large‑scale data center modernization initiative. This role operates at the intersection of program leadership and deep infrastructure technology expertise, ensuring complex engineering initiatives remain coordinated, risks are surfaced early, and multiple teams move forward in alignment.

The individual will serve as a central coordination point across engineering, infrastructure, and platform teams as the organization transitions from a VMware‑centric environment toward a modern three‑tier architecture across multiple data centers.

This role requires someone who can engage credibly with highly technical engineering teams while maintaining program‑level oversight, ensuring workstreams remain synchronized and aligned with overall transformation goals.

Responsibilities

Program Leadership

• Provide program oversight for a multi‑data center modernization initiative involving numerous internal infrastructure and engineering teams.
• Establish and maintain program structure, timelines, milestones, and cross‑team coordination mechanisms.
• Drive alignment across workstreams to ensure progress remains synchronized across infrastructure, networking, platform, and application teams.
• Track key dependencies and proactively surface delivery risks to leadership.

Technical Coordination

• Serve as the technical liaison between engineering teams, infrastructure architects, and program stakeholders.
• Translate complex technical workstreams into clear program‑level visibility and reporting.
• Identify and elevate architectural or integration risks that could impact delivery timelines.

Transformation Enablement

• Support the transition from VMware‑based virtualization to a modernized three‑tier architecture.
• Ensure coordination across containerization, orchestration, compute, storage, and networking layers.
• Facilitate collaboration between platform teams working on containerization and Kubernetes‑based environments.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Work closely with senior IT leadership to maintain visibility into program progress and key risks.
• Facilitate program governance meetings and executive updates.
• Act as the connective layer across teams to ensure communication remains consistent and effective.

Delivery Oversight

• Monitor progress across workstreams spanning multiple data centers.
• Ensure key milestones remain on track and that teams are aligned on priorities and dependencies.
• Help remove blockers and maintain forward momentum across the program.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in technical program management, infrastructure program leadership, or large‑scale IT transformation initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex data center or infrastructure modernization programs.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data center architecture, including compute, storage, networking, and virtualization.
• Experience coordinating large technical programs across multiple engineering teams.
• Ability to identify and communicate technical risk within complex engineering environments.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to interact with senior IT leadership and technical teams.
• Experience delivering work within large enterprise environments.

Preferred Technical Background

• Familiarity with VMware environments and virtualization platforms.
• Experience supporting migrations toward three‑tier infrastructure architectures.
• Working knowledge of containerization technologies and Kubernetes.
• Experience with modern platform and infrastructure transformation initiatives.
• Exposure to hybrid infrastructure environments spanning multiple data centers.

Key Success Characteristics

• Able to quickly establish credibility with senior engineers and infrastructure architects.
• Comfortable operating in complex, evolving technical environments.
• Skilled at translating between technical teams and program leadership.
• Strong at identifying dependencies, surfacing risks, and maintaining delivery momentum.
• Capable of stepping into an active program and driving coordination immediately.

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