Role Title: Senior Project Manager, SAP to AWS Migration

Location:
India (Remote)

Job Type
9 Month Contract Role Overview We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager on a contractor basis to lead delivery of the business-critical SAP infrastructure migration from vendor hosted infrastructure to Client-managed AWS. This is a like-for-like infrastructure migration with application functionality unchanged; SAP functional redesign and application upgrades are outside the migration scope. This individual will own the end-to-end delivery plan, coordinating SAP, Infrastructure, Cloud, Network, Security, application teams, business stakeholders, and external service providers. The successful candidate should have direct experience managing SAP infrastructure migrations to AWS and understand the operational and technical dependencies involved in moving a complex production SAP environment. This contractor role is based in India. As the migration effort operates in a US-based time zone, the successful candidate is expected to work hours that cover mornings in US Pacific Time (PST). You will coordinate agreement across Cloud Operations, Core Operations, SAP Basis, application teams and Security on patch scheduling and execution, SAP and database monitoring, incident escalation, backup and recovery, and memory and disk capacity management. Track tooling, staffing and knowledge-transfer dependencies to closure.

Key Responsibilities
• Own and drive the end-to-end SAP-to-AWS migration program, including planning, execution, cutover, stabilization, and exit from the existing hosting environment.
• Develop and maintain the integrated migration plan covering infrastructure, SAP, networking, security, data migration, testing, business readiness,



cutover and decommissioning. Evaluate and baseline phased non-production and production migration windows with application owners and hosting vendor, including testing dependencies, resource availability, coexistence and hosting continuity.
• Coordinate activities across SAP Basis, AWS/cloud engineering, networking, IAM, security, database, application, and business teams.
• Manage third-party vendors and hosting partners, ensuring clear ownership, dependencies, milestones, and contractual deliverables.
• Drive migration readiness and ensure technical and business prerequisites are completed before cutover.
• Establish and manage RAID tracking, including risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and critical-path items.
• Coordinate development, QA, staging, and production migration activities.
• Lead cutover planning, including detailed runbooks, go/no-go criteria, rollback planning, communications, escalation paths, and command-center coordination.
• Coordinate SAP application and integration testing, business validation, performance testing, disaster recovery validation, and production readiness.
• Manage dependencies with systems integrating with SAP, including identity, network connectivity, middleware, file transfers, monitoring, backup, and security services.
• Track budget, resources, milestones, vendor commitments, and overall program health.




• Provide concise executive-level reporting covering progress, risks, decisions required, and actions.
• Manage hypercare following migration and ensure structured transition into operational support.
• Coordinate the retirement and exit of the legacy hosting environment after successful migration. Required Experience
• 8+ years of IT project/program management experience, ideally within infrastructure, cloud, ERP, or enterprise transformation programs.
• Demonstrated experience successfully managing at least one SAP migration from on-premises or hosted infrastructure to AWS.
• Strong understanding of SAP infrastructure and migration concepts, including SAP Basis, networking, storage, backup/recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, and application dependencies.
• Experience working with AWS services supporting enterprise SAP environments, such as EC2, VPC, Direct Connect, EBS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, AWS Backup, and Route 53.
• Experience managing complex production cutovers where downtime, rollback, and business continuity are critical.
• Strong vendor-management experience, ideally involving managed-service providers and AWS partners.
• Ability to manage multiple technical workstreams while maintaining a single integrated delivery plan.
• Robust risk management and executive communication skills. Preferred Experience
• Experience with SAP migrations and large enterprise databases.
• Experience migrating SAP environments from VMware-based infrastructure.
• Familiarity with AWS Migration and AWS Well-Architected principles.
• PMP, PRINCE2, SAFe, or similar project/program management certification.

📌 Senior Project Manager, SAP to AWS Migration (India)
🏢 Kani Solutions
📍 India