Technical Project Manager

Technical Project Manager

We are seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to lead and coordinate complex datacenter and cloud migration initiatives across enterprise environments. The ideal candidate will possess a strong blend of project management expertise, technical acumen, stakeholder management, and delivery leadership. This role will be responsible for driving infrastructure transformation projects, including on-premises datacenter migrations, cloud adoption (AWS/Azure), VMware platform transitions, and application migration programs while ensuring quality, budget, and schedule objectives are achieved.

Key Responsibilities

Project Planning & Delivery Management

• Lead end-to-end planning, execution, and delivery of datacenter and cloud migration projects.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Track project progress, manage scope changes, and ensure timely delivery within budget.
• Drive project governance and adherence to organizational delivery standards.

Technical Coordination & Architecture Alignment

• Partner with solution architects, infrastructure teams, cloud engineers, and application owners to define migration strategies and technical roadmaps.
• Coordinate technical design reviews and ensure all dependencies are identified and managed.
• Maintain current-state and target-state architecture documentation, migration plans, and deployment schedules.
• Facilitate migration readiness assessments and cutover planning activities.

Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Management

• Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, engineering teams, vendors, and leadership.
• Facilitate communication across infrastructure, networking, security, cloud, and application teams.
• Drive decision-making, issue resolution, and stakeholder alignment throughout the project lifecycle.

Agile & Delivery Governance

• Manage Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid project delivery methodologies.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, status reviews, and steering committee meetings.
• Ensure teams remain aligned on priorities, deliverables, and project objectives.

Risk, Quality & Issue Management

• Proactively identify project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies (RAID).
• Develop mitigation and contingency plans to minimize delivery impact.
• Coordinate testing activities including integration testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), and post-migration validation.
• Ensure quality standards and operational readiness requirements are met before production deployment.

Budget & Resource Management

• Develop project budgets and resource plans in collaboration with technical teams and vendors.
• Track project expenditures and forecast future resource requirements.
• Monitor budget adherence and provide financial reporting to leadership.

Executive Reporting & Metrics

• Prepare executive dashboards, status reports, and presentation materials for leadership and steering committees.
• Track and report key performance indicators, including:
• Schedule adherence
• Budget performance
• Migration success rates
• Defect trends
• Team velocity
• Resource utilization

Vendor & Partner Management

• Coordinate vendor onboarding, Statements of Work (SOWs), and contract-related activities.
• Manage vendor deliverables, timelines, and performance metrics.
• Ensure third-party resources align with project objectives and service expectations.

Documentation & Knowledge Management

• Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including:
• Project charters
• Migration plans
• Architecture diagrams
• RAID logs
• Meeting minutes
• Status reports
• Cutover and rollback plans

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of project/program management experience in enterprise IT environments.
• Proven experience managing datacenter, infrastructure, cloud, or application migration programs.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional technical teams and external vendors.
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Demonstrated experience managing project budgets, schedules, and risks.
• Strong knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and Hybrid delivery models.