Senior Project Manager

Key Responsibilities

Program & Project Delivery

• Own the end-to-end project plan for each assigned migration, including scope, schedule, budget, risks, and dependencies.
• Manage multiple concurrent project tracks without compromising quality or delivery timelines.
• Define and maintain detailed project charters, RACI matrices, and milestone trackers.
• Lead project kick-offs, sprint reviews, steering committee sessions, and retrospectives.
• Drive accountability across all workstream owners and escalate blockers proactively.

Stakeholder Management & Reporting

• Serve as the primary point of contact for project stakeholders, including executives, architecture leads, and business unit owners.
• Prepare and deliver clear, concise status reports, executive dashboards, and risk registers.
• Facilitate alignment between cloud engineering teams, network/security teams, and application owners.
• Translate technical migration complexity into business-friendly language for leadership audiences.
• Manage third-party vendors and implementation partners where applicable.

Cost Savings & Value Tracking

• Partner with FinOps and finance stakeholders to quantify and track cost savings realized through each migration.
• Flag scope changes or decisions that impact cost savings commitments and drive resolution.
• Maintain a benefits realization tracker for each project aligned to program-level KPIs.
• Identify and surface optimization opportunities during migration planning and execution phases.

Risk & Issue Management

• Maintain a living risk and issues log, with owners and mitigation plans, updated for each project.
• Anticipate technical and organizational risks inherent in cloud migrations and repatriation projects.
• Coordinate rollback planning with engineering teams for each migration cutover.
• Ensure all dependencies across concurrent projects are mapped and monitored.

Core Technical Skills

• Cloud Migrations (GCP / AWS / OCI)
• Project & Program Management
• Executive Stakeholder Reporting
• FinOps & Cost Savings Tracking
• Risk & Issue Management
• RACI / Charter / Milestone Tracking
• Agile / Waterfall / Hybrid PM
• Vendor & Contract Management
• Jira / Smartsheet / MS Project
• GCVE / VMware Repatriation
• Change & Cutover Management
• Benefits Realization Tracking
  

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical project management experience in IT infrastructure, cloud, or data center environments.
• Proven track record managing multiple concurrent, high-visibility projects with cross-functional stakeholders.

• Strong understanding of cloud platforms and data center operations.

• Experience delivering projects with meaningful cost savings or efficiency mandates.
• Expertise in project management methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid frameworks.
• Exceptional communication skills — able to translate technical complexity for executive audiences.
• Proficiency with PM tooling (Jira, Smartsheet, MS Project, or equivalent).
• Demonstrated ability to manage risk, resolve blockers, and escalate issues effectively.
• PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent certification preferred.

• Direct experience managing cloud migration programs (GCP, AWS, or VMware-based workloads strongly preferred).

• Familiarity with GCVE, VMware vSphere, or virtualization repatriation concepts is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with limited oversight in a contract or consulting capacity.

Preferred Qualifications

• OCI, GCP, or AWS cloud practitioner or architect-level certification.
• Experience managing migration programs with explicit cost-savings mandates.
• Background in FinOps or cloud financial management.
• Familiarity with ITIL, change management, or ITSM frameworks.
• Prior consulting or contract delivery experience across multiple clients or business units.