OVERALL PROJECT MANAGEMENT:

• 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 re-prioritisation 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:

Technical Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, business, finance, or equivalent.
• 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 center, 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 institution and with technological know-how for datacenter servers.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or similar domain

KEY DOMAIN/ TECHNICAL SKILLS:

(Indicate up to 3 areas)

• PMP or equivalent

Please refer the Job description for details