Project Manager (Data Center Migration & Modernization)
Mumbai, MHFull-TimeManagerProduct / Project
What you will do
- Lead end-to-end planning and execution of the data center migration to AWS, including assessment, discovery, design, migration waves, and stabilization.
- Drive modernization initiatives including containerization, refactoring, re-platforming, and automation improvements.
- Develop and maintain project plans, migration wave schedules, RAID logs, communication plans, and status reports.
- Ensure activities align with cloud adoption frameworks, enterprise architecture guidelines, and client business objectives.
- Track scope, priorities, risks, dependencies, delays and deliverables across multiple workstreams.
- Serve as the primary point of contact between engineering teams, leadership, and client stakeholders.
- Conduct steering committee meetings, sprint reviews, and technical workstream syncs.
- Align cross-functional teams including cloud architects, network/security teams, DevOps, and application owners.
- Manage vendor relationships and third-party integrators involved in migration execution.
- Conduct daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint retrospective meeting
- Facilitate internal and external architecture discussions, review calls, and document decisions with the teams who work in India and three timezones in the US
- Proactively create meeting notes, weekly customer presentations, and organize project documents and recorded calls
- Review and approve employee timesheets, leaves and perform team calendar management
- Enable customer success by proactively communicating project status, risks, requests
- Take ownership of customer escalations and facilitate the resolution
- Negotiate the scope changes in the project by producing appropriate project documentation
What are we looking for
- 3+ years of proven experience leading data center migration to AWS
- 5+ years of experience as a Project manager or scrum master with customers in US timezones
- Strong understanding of AWS cloud services, landing zones, VPC/ networking, IAM, EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, EKS/ECS and migration tools
- Expertise in using Smartsheet, Jira / Confluence, Clockify
- Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
- Expertise in managing internal and external teams
- Strong prioritization and problem-solving skills
You will be preferred if you posses
- Experience in cloud migration projects on AWS
- Solution Architect Associate Certification
- Professional Scrum Master™ certification
- Managing Jira Projects certification
- Smartsheet Certification
