Job Title: Senior Technical Project Manager - Microsoft 365 Migration (A&D)

Experience: 10+ Years Overall | 7+ Years in Project Management

Location: Raritan, New Jersey, USA

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to lead Microsoft 365 (M365) migration initiatives in the context of Acquisitions and Divestitures (A&D).

The candidate will be responsible for managing the discovery, planning, coordination, and execution of enterprise M365 migration projects across multiple Microsoft 365 tenants. The role involves assessing data and services across collaboration, communication, and productivity platforms, ensuring seamless migration, data governance, security, and business continuity.

The ideal candidate will have strong project management experience, a solid understanding of Microsoft 365 services, and experience coordinating complex enterprise migration programs involving multiple stakeholders and IT teams.

Key Responsibilities

1. Microsoft 365 Migration Project Management

• Lead and manage end-to-end Microsoft 365 migration projects associated with acquisitions and divestitures.

• Plan and coordinate migration activities across Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Power Platform, and other M365 services.

• Manage project scope, timelines, budgets, resources, dependencies, risks, and deliverables.

• Coordinate discovery and assessment of data across multiple Microsoft 365 tenants.

• Develop migration roadmaps, project plans, milestones, and execution strategies.

• Monitor migration progress and ensure delivery within agreed timelines.

2. Acquisitions & Divestitures (A&D) Coordination

• Serve as the single point of contact for IT-related acquisition and divestiture activities.

• Coordinate with infrastructure, security, application, collaboration, and business teams.

• Assess existing Microsoft 365 environments and identify migration dependencies.

• Coordinate tenant separation, consolidation, access transition, and data migration activities.

• Ensure business continuity and minimize disruption during migration and transition activities.

3. Microsoft 365 Services & Technical Coordination

• Manage projects involving the following Microsoft 365 services:

  • Exchange / Exchange Online

  • SharePoint / SharePoint Online

  • OneDrive for Business

  • Microsoft Teams

  • Power Platform

  • Azure Active Directory / Microsoft Entra ID

  • Microsoft Planner

• Work closely with M365 administrators, architects, migration engineers, and technical teams.

• Understand tenant configurations, identity management, access controls, permissions, and data dependencies.

• Coordinate technical discovery, migration readiness, testing, validation, and post-migration support.

4. Data Governance, Security & Compliance

• Ensure appropriate data governance practices throughout migration activities.

• Coordinate data discovery, classification, ownership, access permissions, and retention requirements.

• Work with security and compliance teams to address identity, access, and data protection requirements.

• Track migration risks, data integrity issues, compliance requirements, and remediation activities.

• Ensure appropriate documentation and governance controls are maintained.

5. Project Governance & Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary communication point across business stakeholders, IT leadership, and technical teams.

• Lead project status meetings, steering committee discussions, and stakeholder reviews.

• Prepare project plans, status reports, RAID logs, dashboards, and executive updates.

• Manage vendor relationships, resource allocation, dependencies, and escalations.

• Ensure clear communication of project progress, risks, issues, and decisions.

6. Agile & Waterfall Delivery

• Apply Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid project management methodologies based on project requirements.

• Manage project activities using Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft Project.

• Coordinate sprint planning, project reviews, milestone tracking, and delivery governance.

• Ensure project documentation, knowledge transfer, and closure activities are completed.

Mandatory Qualifications

• 10+ years of overall IT experience.

• Minimum 7+ years of technical project or program management experience.

• Proven experience managing enterprise technology and infrastructure projects.

• Strong understanding of Microsoft 365 services and their enterprise capabilities.

• Experience managing projects involving Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Power Platform, and Azure Active Directory.

• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall.

• Experience with project planning, budgeting, risk management, dependency tracking, and stakeholder coordination.

• Strong understanding of enterprise data governance, security, and compliance.

• Proficiency in Jira, Confluence, and other project management tools.

• Excellent communication, presentation, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing Microsoft 365 migration projects.

• Hands-on exposure to tenant-to-tenant M365 migrations.

• Experience with Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, and Teams migrations.

• Experience working in hybrid Microsoft 365 environments.

• Familiarity with Microsoft 365 administration and tenant configurations.

• Experience supporting acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, and enterprise separation initiatives.

• Experience coordinating migration tools and solutions such as ShareGate or BitTitan.