Job Summary

Job Summary: Experienced Project Manager whose primary strength is project management and end-to-end delivery governance. The role will manage network, cloud, and data center projects, with particular focus on migrations, upgrades, refreshes, consolidations, and technology transitions. The candidate should have a good understanding of infrastructure technologies to coordinate technical teams, manage dependencies and risks, validate delivery readiness, and communicate technical impacts to business stakeholders. Hands-on engineering or administration is not required.

Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

- Manage projects from initiation and planning through execution, implementation, transition, and closure.
- Define and control project scope, objectives, deliverables, schedules, milestones, resources, budgets, quality, and acceptance criteria.
- Develop and maintain project plans, governance schedules, status reports, RAID logs, dependency trackers, change requests, and decision logs.
- Lead network, cloud, and data center migration, upgrade, refresh, consolidation, and transformation projects.
- Coordinate architects, engineers, security teams, application owners, operations teams, vendors, carriers, OEMs, and cloud service providers.
- Manage project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, changes, actions, decisions, and escalations through timely mitigation and resolution.
- Plan and govern assessments, design reviews, procurement, environment readiness, testing, maintenance windows, cutovers, rollback, hypercare, and operational handover.
- Monitor delivery against scope, schedule, cost, quality, resource, and business-outcome commitments; initiate corrective actions where required.
- Manage budgets, forecasts, purchase requirements, vendor statements of work, invoices, commercial commitments, and financial reporting.
- Facilitate project meetings, technical checkpoints, governance reviews, steering committees, and executive updates.
- Translate technical updates into clear business impacts, risks, options, decisions, and recommendations.
- Ensure adherence to project governance, security, compliance, change management, audit,



documentation, and service-transition requirements.
- Complete project closure, lessons learned, benefits tracking, knowledge transfer, and transition to business-as-usual support.

Skill Requirements

Skill Requirement:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Management, or a related discipline.
- 8-12 years of overall IT experience, including at least 5 years in project-management roles.
- Demonstrated experience managing infrastructure migration and upgrade projects across network, cloud, data center, or hybrid environments.
- Proven ability to deliver medium-to-large projects within agreed scope, schedule, budget, quality, and governance requirements.
- Strong knowledge of project planning, scheduling, budgeting, resource management, RAID management, change control, vendor management, and stakeholder communication.
- Experience managing complex cutovers, technical dependencies, implementation risks, hypercare, and transition to operations.
- Experience working with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams, external vendors, carriers, OEMs, and cloud service providers.
- Strong leadership, negotiation, facilitation, analytical, problem-solving, presentation, and written communication skills.
- PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, or an equivalent project-management certification is preferred.
- ITIL and foundational network, cloud, or data center certifications are advantageous but not mandatory.
- Experience with Microsoft Project, Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, or similar project-management tools is preferred.

Core Competencies

- Strong project-management knowledge and disciplined execution
- End-to-end ownership of migrations, upgrades, and infrastructure projects
- Planning, governance,



monitoring, reporting, and control
- Risk, issue, dependency, change, and escalation management
- Budgeting, forecasting, resource, vendor, and commercial management
- Good understanding of network, cloud, and data center environments
- Leadership of cross-functional, matrixed, and vendor teams
- Stakeholder engagement, negotiation, executive communication, and decision facilitation

Other Requirements

Other Requirement:

Project Management and Technical Knowledge

- Primary skill - Project Management: Strong knowledge of project lifecycle management, scope, schedule, budget, resources, governance, quality, risk, change, vendor, stakeholder, and communication management.
- Ability to create practical delivery plans, establish controls, track milestones and dependencies, manage escalations, and drive teams toward agreed outcomes.
- Network: Good understanding of LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, Wi-Fi, VPN, firewalls, load balancers, routing, switching, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, network security, resilience, and connectivity.
- Cloud: Valuable understanding of Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud infrastructure, virtual networks, compute, storage, identity and access, security controls, connectivity, monitoring, resiliency, and cost considerations.
- Data Center: Good understanding of servers, virtualization, storage, backup, racks, cabling, facilities dependencies, monitoring, capacity, hardware lifecycle, business continuity, and disaster recovery.
- Understanding of migration and upgrade activities, including discovery, assessment, design, planning, testing, compatibility, sequencing, cutover, rollback, stabilization, and decommissioning.
- Ability to understand architecture diagrams, technical designs, migration plans, test plans, cutover runbooks, rollback plans, and operational-readiness documents.
- Familiarity with ITIL change, incident, problem, configuration, release, and service-transition processes.
- Technical understanding is required to govern delivery and support informed decision-making; hands-on configuration or administration is not the primary responsibility.

📌 SME - Program & Project Management (India)
🏢 HCL Technologies
📍 India