Technical Project Manager

New York Global Consultants Inc. (NYGCI); United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

New York Global Consultants Inc. (NYGCI) is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to lead a large-scale PowerMax/VMAX storage migration program across multiple data centers.

You will manage end-to-end migration planning, readiness, execution, and cutover, coordinating storage, infrastructure, applications, networking, and operations teams. The role requires strong enterprise storage knowledge, stakeholder management, and the ability to deliver detailed migration schedules, risk analyses,

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on project/program management in enterprise infrastructure migrations.
• Experience managing large-scale storage migration programs.
• Experience with Dell EMC PowerMax environments (VMAX 950F).
• Understanding of SRDF and storage replication is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and execution of a large-scale PowerMax/VMAX storage migration program across multiple sites.
• Manage storage across 14 arrays and hundreds of hosts with multi-site coordination.
• Lead discovery, assessment, planning, and migration readiness activities.
• Coordinate migration events, including pre-migration readiness and post-migration validation.
• Develop and maintain migration schedules, milestones, risks, and dependencies.
• Provide executive reporting and ensure alignment with change-management processes.

Skills

Project management

Enterprise storage migrations

Dell EMC PowerMax

Dell EMC VMAX / VMAX 950F

SRDF

Open Replicator

SAN zoning

Capacity planning

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to lead a large-scale enterprise storage migration program involving Dell EMC PowerMax/VMAX environments across multiple data centers. The candidate will be responsible for end-to-end migration planning, coordination, migration event management, stakeholder communication, technical dependency management, reporting, and production cutover activities.

The environment includes approximately 3.3PB of allocated storage, 1.6PB consumed, 14 VMAX 950F arrays, 477 hosts, and 6 sites, with migration activities targeting PowerMax arrays.

This role requires a strong project manager who understands enterprise storage technologies and can effectively coordinate storage engineers, infrastructure teams, customer stakeholders, vendors, and migration resources.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead planning and execution of a large-scale PowerMax/VMAX storage migration program across multiple sites and enterprise environments.
• Manage approximately 3.3PB of allocated storage and 1.6PB of consumed data across 14 arrays and 477 hosts.
• Lead approximately 2 months of discovery, assessment, planning, and migration readiness activities before production migrations.
• Coordinate migration activities of up to 18 migration events, with up to 2 migration weeks per month and approximately 300TB of migration activity per month.
• Develop and maintain detailed migration schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, resources, and readiness criteria.
• Manage individual migration events, including pre-migration readiness, execution coordination, validation, and post-migration activities.
• Coordinate technical teams responsible for storage, infrastructure, applications, networking, and operations.
• Manage pre- and post-migration performance analysis, including review of array statistics and performance indicators.
• Coordinate pre- and post-migration array health checks and ensure identified issues are tracked through resolution.
• Maintain migration trackers, event status, action items, risks, dependencies, and executive-level reporting.
• Coordinate customer, vendor, engineering, and offshore/onshore resources throughout the migration lifecycle.
• Manage production cutover activities, implementation windows, MOP/SOP documentation, validation, rollback planning, and stabilization.
• Coordinate migration activities involving SRDF replication, including recreation of production SRDF relationships where required.
• Ensure migration activities remain aligned with approved change-management processes and customer schedules.
• Support migration to target PowerMax arrays, including coordination of capacity expansion involving up to four additional PowerMax arrays.
• Coordinate with teams responsible for SAN zoning, storage masking, host connectivity, and automation while maintaining clear ownership boundaries.
• Track and communicate migration risks, technical blockers, schedule impacts, and readiness issues to customer leadership.
• Ensure appropriate documentation and operational handoff following each migration event.

Required Technical Experience

• Strong hands-on project/program management experience in enterprise infrastructure migrations.
• Demonstrated experience managing large-scale storage migration programs.
• Strong experience with Dell EMC PowerMax.
• Experience with Dell EMC VMAX / VMAX 950F environments.
• Strong understanding of SRDF / storage replication.
• Experience with Open Replicator or comparable enterprise storage migration technology.
• Understanding of enterprise SAN/storage environments, including:
• LUN masking
• Host/storage connectivity
• Replication
• Array migrations
• Experience coordinating pre- and post-migration performance analysis.
• Experience managing migration readiness, validation, cutover, and post-migration stabilization.
• Experience working with large-scale, multi-site infrastructure environments.