Project Manager Work Model: Hybrid – 3 Days per Week in Office

Role Description The Project Manager will lead and oversee cloud migration initiatives, ensuring successful planning, execution, governance, and delivery aligned with business objectives.

Roles & Responsibilities

1. Project Planning & Strategy Define migration strategy and roadmap (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Rebuild). Develop detailed project plans, timelines, and milestones. Identify scope, objectives, and deliverables aligned with business goals. Plan phased migration waves, including application grouping and dependency mapping. Conduct feasibility assessments and readiness analysis.
2. Stakeholder Management Act as the primary point of contact for stakeholders including business, IT, and vendors. Facilitate alignment between business and technical teams. Conduct steering committee meetings and status reporting. Communicate risks, progress, and decisions clearly. Manage expectations across senior leadership and delivery teams.
3. Governance & Delivery Management Establish governance frameworks and project cadence (daily/weekly reviews). Track progress against timelines, budget, and scope. Ensure adherence to organizational standards and compliance requirements. Manage change requests and scope creep. Maintain RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies).
4. Migration Execution Oversight Coordinate execution of: Application and infrastructure migration. Data migration and validation. Environment setup (Development, UAT, Production). Additional responsibilities: Oversee cutover planning and execution. Ensure minimal downtime and business disruption. Coordinate go-live and hypercare support.
5. Risk & Issue Management Identify and mitigate technical risks including compatibility, performance, and dependencies. Identify and mitigate operational risks including downtime, data loss, and security gaps. Drive issue resolution and escalation management. Define and activate contingency and rollback plans.
6. Resource & Vendor Management Manage: Cross-functional teams including cloud, infrastructure, application, network, and security teams. Onshore and offshore delivery models. Third-party vendors and cloud providers. Additional responsibilities: Ensure resource allocation aligns with migration waves.
7. Budget & Cost Management Track migration budget and cost estimates. Monitor cloud consumption and migration costs. Ensure cost optimization during migration and post-migration. Provide financial forecasting and reporting.
8. Quality Assurance & Testing Coordination Ensure execution of: Functional Testing. Performance Testing. Security Validation. Additional responsibilities: Coordinate UAT and sign-offs. Validate data integrity and system stability post-migration.
9. Tools & Reporting Tools: Azure Migrate AWS Migration Hub Google Migrate JIRA MS Project Azure DevOps Reporting: Weekly status reports. Executive dashboards. Migration progress tracking (wave-wise). Essential Skills Digital: Cloud Application Migration Agile Way of Working Desirable Skills Azure certifications validating expertise in Azure technologies. Advanced Python programming skills. Experience with Terraform and FLUX for infrastructure management. Familiarity with Azure Data Factory for orchestrating data workflows.