Technology Migration Project Manager

Title: Technology Migration Project Manager

Location: Charlotte, NC (Brevard St.)

Alternative Locations: Chandler, Irving and Minneapolis

Duration: 12 months

Work Engagement: W2

Work Schedule: Hybrid 3 days in office/2 days remote

Benefits on offer for this contract position: Health Insurance, Life insurance, 401K and Voluntary Benefits

Summary:

In this contingent resource assignment, you may: Consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for Project Management. Review and analyze complex multi-faceted, larger scale or longer-term Project Management challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors including intangibles or unprecedented factors. Contribute to the resolution of complex and multi-faceted situations requiring solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements that meet deliverables. Strategically collaborate and consult with client personnel.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Technology Project Manager to lead a large-scale enterprise data platform modernization initiative focused on the retirement of a legacy Hadoop ecosystem and migration of applications, data assets, and platform services to strategic target-state platforms. This role will be responsible for driving end-to-end execution of a multi-year transformation program involving application migrations, infrastructure decommissioning, cloud adoption, risk remediation, stakeholder management, financial governance, and operational readiness activities. The successful candidate will partner with technology leaders, architects, product owners, infrastructure teams, cybersecurity, operations, and business stakeholders to ensure the successful retirement of legacy platforms while minimizing business disruption.

Key Responsibilities:

Program Leadership

• Lead a complex, cross-functional technology modernization program involving retirement of enterprise Hadoop platforms and supporting infrastructure.
• Establish and manage program governance, reporting, executive communications, and steering committee reviews.
• Develop and maintain integrated roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, risk registers, financial tracking, and delivery plans.
• Drive accountability across multiple technology teams and business partners.

Platform Retirement & Migration Execution

• Oversee discovery, assessment, prioritization, and migration of applications, tenants, and data workloads from legacy Hadoop environments.
• Coordinate migration activities across cloud platforms, data platforms, middleware services, security teams, infrastructure providers, and application teams.
• Manage application retirement, tenant offboarding, data archival, infrastructure shutdown, and decommissioning activities.
• Ensure migration readiness reviews, cutover planning, production implementation, and post-migration stabilization are successfully completed. [EDL Platfo...ration_V16 | PowerPoint], [August IBR...ess Review | PowerPoint]

Stakeholder & Executive Management

• Build strong relationships with senior technology leaders and business stakeholders.
• Provide concise executive-level updates on delivery status, risks, financial impacts, and business outcomes.
• Facilitate decision-making and issue resolution across multiple organizations and lines of business.
• Present program health, milestones, and transformation progress to executive leadership.

Risk & Compliance Management

• Lead remediation efforts related to platform vulnerabilities, EOS/EOL technologies, audit findings, and regulatory commitments.
• Drive risk mitigation plans and ensure compliance requirements are incorporated into migration and retirement activities.
• Coordinate with Cyber Security, Infrastructure, Operations, Architecture, and Risk organizations to address dependencies and impediments. [EDT&O Week...2026 Final | PowerPoint], [CDO TechOp...P_20260817 | PowerPoint]

Financial & Business Value Tracking

• Manage budget oversight and forecast delivery against committed business case objectives.
• Monitor benefits realization including infrastructure savings, software license reductions, platform rationalization, and operational efficiencies.
• Develop and maintain executive-level reporting on cost avoidance, run-rate savings, and modernization outcomes. [August IBR...ess Review | PowerPoint], [Q2 CDO Scoreboard | PDF]

Operational Readiness & Change Management

• Coordinate production readiness reviews, business continuity testing, support transitions, and operational acceptance.
• Ensure comprehensive communication, training, documentation, and stakeholder preparedness throughout the program lifecycle.
• Drive organizational change management strategies to support adoption of target-state platforms.

Key Requirements:

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

• 10+ years of project, program, or portfolio management experience within large-scale technology organizations.
• Proven experience leading complex infrastructure transformation, data platform modernization, cloud migration, or data center exit initiatives.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data platforms, distributed computing technologies, and cloud transformation programs.
• Experience managing multimillion-dollar programs with multiple workstreams, vendors, and executive stakeholders.
• Demonstrated expertise in risk management, financial governance, executive reporting, and dependency management.
• Experience using Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Hadoop ecosystems including Hortonworks, Cloudera, MapR, Hive, Spark, Oozie, HDFS, or related technologies.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, AWS, or private cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with enterprise data engineering, ETL modernization, data governance, and analytics platforms.
• Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure decommissioning and application retirement programs.
• PMP, PgMP, Agile, SAFe, or equivalent certification.