– Transition and Transformation Program Manager

Practice: Cloud Infrastructure and Security Services

Location: Pune

Employment Type: Full-time

Experience: 15 years overall IT experience, including 10 years in transformation, cloud/infrastructure implementation, migration, transition, or program delivery.

Role Summary

Lead large-scale, multi-workstream technology transformation programs across cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, networking, workplace, data centres, and managed services. Drive end-to-end program delivery from discovery and architecture through implementation, migration, testing, go-live, hypercare, and operational transition, ensuring business outcomes, governance, budget, and timelines are achieved.

Key Responsibilities

1. Transformation Strategy and Mobilization

- Define transformation strategy, program charter, roadmap, business case, budgets, benefits, and success metrics.
- Lead discovery and assessment of IT infrastructure, applications, cloud readiness, cybersecurity, technical debt, dependencies, and operational requirements.
- Translate business and contractual commitments into integrated delivery plans covering architecture, engineering, migration, service transition, and organizational change.
- Govern M&A; integration, divestiture, carve-out, Day-1 readiness, TSA services, and separation or integration milestones, where applicable.

2. Architecture and Implementation Governance

- Oversee target architecture and design governance across cloud platforms, hybrid infrastructure, networking, identity, security, backup, disaster recovery, and automation.
- Coordinate infrastructure build, configuration, integration, remediation, workload migration, and decommissioning activities.
- Ensure security, compliance, privacy, resilience, and non-functional requirements are incorporated into solution designs.
- Establish stage gates and assurance reviews across discovery, design, build, testing, migration readiness, and service acceptance.





3. Testing, Migration and Go-Live

- Lead integrated testing and assurance covering functional, security, performance, resilience, disaster recovery, and business acceptance.
- Govern migration waves, pilot runs, cutover plans, change approvals, go/no-go decisions, rollback strategies, and executive communications.
- Manage cross-program dependencies, defects, risks, and readiness assessments.
- Lead go-live and hypercare governance, ensuring stable transition into steady-state operations.

4. Program Governance and Commercial Management

- Establish steering committees, PMO controls, governance forums, reporting structures, escalation mechanisms, and RAID management.
- Manage program budgets, forecasts, resource planning, supplier performance, contractual milestones, change control, and financial reporting.
- Coordinate with senior stakeholders, architects, engineering teams, security, operations, legal, procurement, and delivery partners.
- Track business benefits, including cloud adoption, modernization, automation, resilience, security improvements, service quality, and cost optimization.
- Ensure successful program closure through documentation, knowledge transfer, asset and CMDB updates, risk ownership, and benefits handover.

Required Experience

- 15 years of overall IT experience, including 10 years leading complex technology transformation or program delivery.
- Strong experience across cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, networking, workplace, or data centre transformation.
- Proven end-to-end delivery experience covering discovery,



architecture, implementation, migration, testing, cutover, hypercare, and operational acceptance.
- Experience managing multi-million-dollar budgets, multiple vendors, distributed teams, executive stakeholders, and business-critical production changes.
- Outsourcing and managed services transformation experience.
- M&A; integration, divestiture, carve-out, or TSA exit experience is an advantage.

Technical and Functional Skills

- Cloud platforms: Azure, AWS, GCP, and private cloud.
- Infrastructure modernization, cloud landing zones, hybrid infrastructure, networking, identity, workplace, and security.
- Backup, disaster recovery, observability, automation, and operational resilience.
- Program and portfolio management, architecture governance, migration management, quality assurance, and advantages realization.
- Security and compliance, Zero Trust, IAM, vulnerability management, SOC integration, and data protection.
- Tools: ServiceNow, Microsoft Project, Jira, Azure DevOps, Power BI, and Microsoft 365.

Qualifications and Certifications

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, IT, Computer Science, or Business Management.
- MBA or postgraduate qualification preferred.
- PMP, PgMP, MSP, PRINCE2, or equivalent program management certification preferred.
- ITIL certification required; ITIL Managing Professional is an advantage.
- Azure, AWS, or GCP certifications desirable.
- Security or governance certifications are beneficial.

Behavioral Competencies

- Strong executive presence and commercial judgment.
- Ability to communicate complex technical and delivery matters to senior stakeholders.
- Decisive leadership, accountability, and adaptability in complex environments.
- Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation, conflict resolution, and vendor management skills.
- Ability to lead large-scale transformations and demonstrate measurable business outcomes.

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