Primary Responsibilities
• Define and drive the lift-and-shift migration strategy, roadmap, migration factory approach, and execution plan across all migration waves.
• Review and validate discovery outputs, workload classifications, dependency mapping, and migration wave plans to ensure migration readiness.
• Own end-to-end migration delivery governance from a Cognizant perspective, covering scope, schedules, milestones, risks, dependencies, and quality objectives.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership and architectural guidance for AWS target environments, including compute, storage, networking, security, and operational readiness.
• Coordinate closely with client SMEs, AWS ProServe, application owners, infrastructure teams, database teams, and Cognizant offshore migration pods.
• Lead migration wave planning, readiness reviews, cutover planning, execution oversight, and go-live activities.
• Act as the primary escalation point for migration-related technical challenges, deployment issues, cutover risks, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Drive status reporting, risk management, issue management, and executive stakeholder communications, ensuring alignment across all participating teams.
• Ensure migration quality, runbook compliance, performance validation, rollback readiness, and operational acceptance across all migration waves.
• Support troubleshooting and resolution of issues related to migrated servers, operating systems, databases, network connectivity, security controls, and application dependencies.
• Oversee migration factory operations, including migration tooling, automation processes, workload tracking, and migration execution governance.
• Ensure adherence to security, compliance, audit, and regulatory requirements throughout the migration lifecycle.
Secondary Responsibilities
• Validate landing zone, connectivity, account structure, security controls, and environment readiness with client and AWS teams.
• Review and approve migration runbooks, SOPs, cutover plans, rollback procedures, and migration best practices.
• Guide and mentor migration engineers and offshore migration teams during planning, execution, and stabilization phases.
• Support testing coordination, defect resolution, business validation activities, and hypercare stabilization following migrations.
• Drive automation adoption through migration factory tooling, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), scripting, and operational efficiencies.
• Coordinate dependency management across infrastructure, application, network, database, security, and operations teams.
• Facilitate knowledge transfer and transition of migrated workloads to operations and managed services teams.
• Participate in governance reviews, architecture discussions, milestone assessments, and executive reporting activities.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities to optimize migration processes, tooling, and delivery models.
• Ensure migration documentation, execution records, lessons learned, and operational handoff artifacts are completed and maintained.
Required Skills & Experience
• Strong experience leading large-scale VMware, physical server, and cloud migration programs.
• Proven experience managing migration factories, migration waves, cutover activities, and workload modernization initiatives.
• Deep understanding of AWS infrastructure services, networking, security, identity management, and operational best practices.
• Experience with migration tooling such as AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), Cloud Migration Factory (CMF), AWS Transform, and related migration technologies.
• Strong knowledge of Windows and Linux server platforms, networking, storage, and enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Experience coordinating infrastructure, application, database, security, and operations teams in complex migration engagements.
• Strong troubleshooting, risk management, stakeholder management, and delivery governance skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with executives, technical teams, and client stakeholders.
• Experience supporting regulated, government, or highly governed environments is preferred.
• AWS Certifications and migration-related certifications are highly desirable.
Never miss an opportunity! Create an alert based on the job you applied for.
