Experience
12+ years of IT project/program management experience, with 5+ years leading large-scale legacy modernization or mainframe migration/decommissioning programs (USD 5M+ budgets, multi-year, multi-vendor).
At least one completed mainframe-to-cloud or mainframe-to-distributed migration delivered end-to-end (through parallel run, cutover, and decommissioning), preferably to a Data Lake/big-data target (Databricks, Spark, Snowflake, EMR, or similar).
3+ years in insurance (life, P&C;, or health) or an equivalently regulated financial-services workplace, with direct exposure to regulatory/statutory reporting cycles and audit interactions.
Demonstrated experience managing parallel-run and output-reconciliation programs where byte-level or tolerance-based parity was a formal acceptance criterion.
Experience managing global, blended onshore/offshore delivery teams (15+ FTE) and third-party SI or code-conversion tooling vendors.
Technical Fluency (working knowledge; hands-on coding not required)
Mainframe ecosystem understanding
Target platform: Databricks architecture (workspaces,



clusters/serverless compute, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Databricks Workflows), PySpark/Spark SQL processing paradigms, medallion/lakehouse design patterns, and cloud foundations (Azure or AWS)
Data governance: data lineage, data quality frameworks, metadata/catalog management, retention and archival, and security models (RBAC, encryption, PII handling) in regulated environments.
Scheduling/orchestration transition: CA-7, Control-M, or equivalent mainframe schedulers and their mapping to contemporary orchestration (Databricks Workflows, Airflow, ADF).
Project Management & Methodology
Expert command of hybrid delivery: waterfall-style wave/cutover planning combined with Agile/Scrum execution for conversion and data engineering sprints.
Robust financial management: estimation, forecasting, earned value or equivalent tracking, and vendor/SOW commercial management.
Rigorous risk and quality managem

📌 Senior Project Manager – Mainframe To Databricks Migration Bengaluru (India)
🏢 Visionet Systems
📍 India