Project Manager (Data Center Migration & Modernization)

Mactores is a trusted leader among businesses in providing modern data platform solutions. Since 2008, Mactores have been enabling businesses to accelerate their value through automation by providing End-to-End Data Solutions that are automated, agile, and secure. We collaborate with customers to strategize, navigate, and accelerate an ideal path forward with a digital transformation via assessments, migration, or 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 posses

• Experience in cloud migration projects on AWS
• Solution Architect Associate Certification
• Professional Scrum Master™ certification
• Managing Jira Projects certification
• Smartsheet Certification