Technical Project Manager

Technical Project Manager

Irvine, CA
8+ Months
Hybrid
$75/hr on W2


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.