Mactores - Project Manager - Data Center Migration & Modernization

As the Project Manager, you will be responsible to lead a large-scale Data Center Migration and Modernization project focused on transitioning workloads, applications, and infrastructure to AWS. The ideal candidate will have strong project management expertise, hands-on experience delivering cloud migration programs, and the ability to coordinate cross-functional engineering, architecture, security and business teams. What You Will Do

• Lead end-to-end planning and execution of the data center migration to AWS, including assessment, discovery, design, migration waves, and stabilization.
• Drive modernization initiatives including containerization, refactoring, re-platforming, and automation improvements.
• Develop and maintain project plans, migration wave schedules, RAID logs, communication plans, and status reports.
• Ensure activities align with cloud adoption frameworks, enterprise architecture guidelines, and client business objectives.
• Track scope, priorities, risks, dependencies, delays and deliverables across multiple workstreams.
• Serve as the primary point of contact between engineering teams, leadership, and client stakeholders.
• Conduct steering committee meetings, sprint reviews, and technical workstream syncs.
• Align cross-functional teams including cloud architects, network/security teams, DevOps, and application owners.
• Manage vendor relationships and third-party integrators involved in migration execution.
• Conduct daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint retrospective meeting.
• Facilitate internal and external architecture discussions, review calls, and document decisions with the teams who work in India and three timezones in the US.
• Proactively create meeting notes, weekly customer presentations, and organize project documents and recorded calls.
• Review and approve employee timesheets, leaves and perform team calendar management.
• Enable customer success by proactively communicating project status, risks, requests.
• Take ownership of customer escalations and facilitate the resolution.
• Negotiate the scope changes in the project by producing appropriate project documentation. What Are We Looking For
• 3+ years of proven experience leading data center migration to AWS.
• 5+ years of experience as a Project manager or scrum master with customers in US timezones.
• Strong understanding of AWS cloud services, landing zones, VPC/ networking, IAM, EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, EKS/ECS and migration tools.
• Expertise in using Smartsheet, Jira / Confluence, Clockify.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills.
• Expertise in managing internal and external teams.
• Strong prioritization and problem-solving skills. You Will Be Preferred If You Possess
• Experience in cloud migration projects on AWS.
• Solution Architect Associate Certification.
• Professional Scrum Master certification.
• Managing Jira Projects certification.
• Smartsheet Certification. Life At Mactores
• We care about creating a culture that makes a real difference in the lives of every Mactorian.
• Our 10 Core Leadership Principles that honor Decision-making, Leadership, Collaboration, and Curiosity drive how we work. (ref:hirist.tech)