Location: Pune, India (Hybrid: 1 week/month in-office)
Contract: 1-Year (extendable)
Project: VMware-to-Open Shift Virtualization migration Project
Role Summary:
We seek an experienced Project Manager to lead a high-stakes infrastructure transformation program. You will orchestrate the end-to-end migration from legacy VMware to Red Hat Open Shift Virtualization, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery while managing stakeholder expectations, risks, and regulatory compliance in a complex FSI setting.
Key Responsibilities:
Project Planning & Execution: Define migration roadmap, milestones, and resource plans. Coordinate with technical leads (Platform, Build, Automation, QE) to track progress against KPIs (migration velocity, downtime windows, test pass rates). Stakeholder & Vendor Management: Serve as primary liaison between Red Hat delivery teams, client leadership, and third-party vendors. Present regular status updates to steering committees and negotiate scope/timeline changes. Risk & Governance: Proactively identify, mitigate, and report risks (data integrity, performance,
compliance). Establish governance frameworks, change control processes, and contingency plans (e.g., rollback strategies). Team Leadership: Lead a cross-functional team of 15–25 engineers and architects. Foster collaboration, clarity of roles, and effective communication between technical and business stakeholders. Reporting: Produce weekly/monthly dashboards covering budget, timeline, milestones, and issues for executive sponsors. Mandatory Qualifications:
12+ years total experience, with 5+ years in project management (infrastructure modernization/cloud migration preferred). Proven track record managing large-scale migration projects in complex, matrixed organizations. Strong stakeholder management and negotiation skills – experience engaging C-suite, IT directors, and operational teams. Excellent verbal/written communication – Able to translate complex technical details into transparent, bus
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