You will be responsible for overseeing and driving the end-to-end process of migrating data centre infrastructure for large-scale organizations. This includes managing the planning, coordination, and execution of all technical, logistical, and operational aspects of the migration, ensuring minimal disruption to services. You will lead cross-functional teams, work closely with stakeholders, and communicate progress, risks, and issues to executive leadership. You will develop detailed project timelines, resource allocation plans, and contingency strategies, ensuring the migration is completed on time, within budget, and with high-quality standards. Expertise in data centre technologies, cloud platforms, and risk management is essential, along with the ability to manage complex vendor relationships and external dependencies.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage a large-scale Data Centre Migration Project involving the transition of close to 10,000 virtual machines from a current incumbent technology provider to two new technology providers, within a hypervisor-based environment.
- Lead and manage migration of physical servers, storage, network equipment and appliances between Data Centres.
- Oversee the two vendor migration tracks, based on a workload distribution ratio of approximately between the two platforms, ensuring clear accountability, progress tracking, and vendor performance management.
- Drive the project across its full lifecycle (estimated 2.5 years), covering planning, infrastructure design, build, cutover, and post-migration stabilization, in compliance with the bank’s regulatory, security, and risk management frameworks.
- Responsible for coordinating with infra delivery resources required to complete the infrastructure build, and implementation, working with the infrastructure architects, the engineering team, and the build team.
- Highlight and resolve any conflicting resource, timeline, or unrealistic expectation of infrastructure delivery/build time.
- Monitor and analyse the implementation of each infrastructure project. Recommend reprioritisation based on the sensitivity, urgency, priority, and type of projects (e.g. compliance/regulatory) and the approval requirement.
- Consolidate the plan against the actual end-to-end cost required to deliver infrastructure projects. Recommend optimization of cost by consolidating similar infrastructure components and timelines.
- Responsible and track the quality, scope, timeline, effort (co-related to estimation, CR’s, complexity), resources (includes GTO, business, contractor, Professional Services resources as well as operations),
- Develop and execute the overall project plan and analyse project proposals which impacts the schedule and budget variance which in turn contribute to meeting the overall objectives of the project.
- Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones and required activities and tasks.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or similar domain
- At least 10 years’ experience in project management in banking, financial, consulting industries with proven track record.
- Must have more than 5 years of proven experience in managing large scale data centres, infrastructure and application migrations involving > 2000 servers.
- Good problem solver and stay on top of the project risks and issues till closure.
- Good team player and can exercise formal and informal ways to lead the vertical teams in achieving the common project targets.
- Excellent presentation skills and able to front with the senior stakeholders at C level.
- Passionate, diligent, and resilient individual with ability if thrive in ambiguity.
- Previous exposure in managing Large Scale Data Migration Projects involving physical machines and virtual machines in the regulatory landscape for banks/financial services institutions and with technological know-how for datacenter servers.
- PMP / ACP / Prince2 certification or equivalent.
Interested candidates may send their CV to MAC (Reg No. R1221300) at [email protected] quoting the job title in the Subject line. We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
