Roles and Responsibilities
• Manage the project teams including Align, the client and the vendors throughout the project
• Manage the process with a deep understanding of risk mitigation and chain of custody for physical servers
• Gather documentation and build and develop a delivery plan for all the work streams
• Advise clients on potential risk, and manage client expectations
• Continually improve the process and framework and update our migration solution
• Develop and maintain project plans including charter, scope, work breakdown structures, estimates, resource plans, budget, task dependencies, schedule, open issues, and risk assessment, management and mitigation plans across multiple work streams.
• Work with resource managers, technical staff and business subject matter experts to orchestrate project delivery to ensure projects are delivered and executed in alignment with the overall project plan, driving customer outcomes, and customer satisfaction.
• Define and manage overall project risks and take corrective action in a proactive manner to mitigate risks and prevent issues.
• Direct and monitor work efforts on a daily basis, identify resource needs, perform quality review; and escalate functional, quality, timeline issues appropriately.
• Provide clear and timely communication regarding the status of the project – schedule, budget, progress to date, risks etc. - to relevant stakeholders.
• Must enjoy working with leading edge technology and being an intrinsic part of a fantastic team
Knowledge, skills and attributes
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Ability to establish and create excellent client relationships with their technical expertise
• Knowledgeable in core frameworks used
• Strong knowledge of the problem domain that their systems are to provide solutions for
• Excellent organizational, collaboration, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Intimate knowledge of change management, risk management, setting up and initiating projects.
• Proven experience taking proactive lead and ownership of desired project outcome success.
• Strong work ethic and accountability
Experience required:
• Preferably candidate should have 10-15 years of professional experience
• Minimum of 5+ years of Data Center Migration and IT transformation project experience (assessments, migrations, consolidations, virtualization projects, etc. )
• Must have prior experience managing one or more complex, enterprise-level data center migration or consolidation projects
• A holistic understanding of IT infrastructure inclusive of server, storage, network, database, systems, DR/business recovery and continuity practices, etc.
• Understands application and workload move dispositions (cloud, P2V, V2V, P2P, Lift and Shift) and the methodologies around each
• Proven client engagement and development consulting experience
• Experience presenting technical solutions to non-technical audiences
• Experience working in an agile development environment
• Ability to create and manage budgets
• Familiar with project schedules and dependencies (Microsoft Project)
• Experience in executing change control, quality, risk management and communications throughout the project
Technical Qualifications
• Applied understanding of data center functions,(including basis Data Center Facilities knowledge) technologies and interdependencies:
• PMP certification is desired
• IT BCP, ITIL and ITSM knowledge and certifications desired
• Professional Certification such as Network, Security, Compute, Storage, Virtualization, application are desired.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred
