Infrastructure Project Manager – Data Center Migration
Experience: 10+ years in Infrastructure project/program management (preferred) | Focus: Enterprise Data Center Migration
Job Summary
We are seeking an Infrastructure Project Manager with strong Infrastructure project management expertise to lead complex enterprise data center exits, consolidations, relocations, and phased infrastructure and application migrations. The role requires a deep understanding of infrastructure and application dependencies, client-specific configurations, migration sequencing, operational risk, and readiness. The successful candidate will coordinate engineering, architecture, security, application, implementation, operations, vendors, and client stakeholders to deliver controlled migrations with minimal business disruption, particularly in regulated, high-availability environments.
Skills & Expertise Required
- Enterprise data center exit, consolidation, relocation, and phased migration program leadership.
- Technical dependency mapping across servers, databases, storage, networks, middleware, authentication, batch jobs, file transfers, APIs, and third-party integrations.
- Infrastructure fundamentals: compute, storage, networking, virtualization, operating systems, databases, cloud/hybrid hosting, and disaster recovery.
- Migration planning: application portfolio assessment, wave sequencing, readiness criteria, cutover plans, rollback procedures, and hypercare.
- Risk and governance: RAID registers, impact assessments, mitigation plans, change controls, auditability, and stakeholder reporting.
- Technical documentation and leadership: dependency maps, system diagrams, configuration inventories, runbooks, dashboards, and executive communication.
Key Roles & Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end planning and execution of enterprise data center exits, consolidations, relocations, and phased infrastructure/application migrations.
- Assess application portfolios and client environments by business criticality, technical complexity, dependency density, configuration differences, recoverability, and readiness.
- Identify and document cross-system dependencies involving compute, storage, network, databases, middleware, authentication, batch processing, file transfers, APIs, and external integrations.
- Analyze client-specific workflows, schedules, interfaces, integrations, and implementation exceptions to determine migration impacts and testing needs.
- Define migration strategies, coordinated waves, sequencing, ownership, milestones, and dependencies across production, non-production, and disaster recovery environments.
- Coordinate infrastructure, application, database, network, security, client implementation, operations, and vendor workstreams to resolve dependencies and execution issues.
- Identify and manage downtime, legacy-system, data integrity, security, compliance, capacity, performance, and rollback risks through documented mitigation and escalation.
- Establish entry/exit readiness criteria, go/no-go checkpoints, testing and validation plans, cutover runbooks, rollback approaches, and post-migration hypercare.
- Ensure migration execution aligns with change management, data protection, auditability, availability, and operational resilience expectations in regulated environments.
- Maintain accurate technical documentation, including dependency maps, architecture inventories, client configuration records, RAID logs, decision logs, migration playbooks, and status dashboards.
- Communicate timelines, risks, decisions, business impacts, and escalations clearly to technical teams, client stakeholders, and executive leadership.
- Monitor migration progress, resolve blockers, validate post-cutover service stability, and coordinate transition to steady-state operations.
Mandatory Skills & Expertise –
- Enterprise Data Center Migration Leadership – Proven experience leading complex data center exits, consolidations, relocations, and phased migrations.
- Technical Dependency Mapping – Strong ability to analyze infrastructure/application integrations and plan dependency-driven migration waves.
- Client Configuration Analysis – Expertise assessing client-specific workflows, interfaces, schedules, and configuration exceptions affecting migration.
- Infrastructure & Application Knowledge – Working understanding of compute, storage, networking, virtualization, databases, cloud/hybrid platforms, and disaster recovery.
- Migration Risk, Readiness & Cutover Management – Hands-on experience with RAID management, readiness assessments, go/no-go decisions, cutover/rollback planning, and hypercare.
Good-to-Have Skills & Expertise
- Experience with core banking, configurable financial platforms, or other regulated high-availability environments.
- Experience managing client-facing cutovers involving sensitive downtime, data protection, and compliance requirements.
- Experience producing migration dashboards, architecture inventories, system interaction diagrams, and executive-level reporting.
- Familiarity with disaster recovery patterns, operational resilience, and post-migration stabilization.
