Data Center Migration Project Manager (Contractor)

Core Responsibilities

• Lead the physical migration of compute, storage, and network infrastructure as part of a multi-year data center relocation initiative.
• Develop and maintain the overall project schedule, work breakdown structure, and controls for scope, budget, timelines, risks, issues, dependencies, and change management.
• Partner closely with BIT leadership, project managers, application support teams, infrastructure teams, and vendors to coordinate migration activities and resolve competing requirements.
• Ensure the new facility is operationally ready, including power, cooling, fire suppression, and physical access controls.
• Cook up resilient network connectivity and telecommunications carrier integration at the new hosting location.
• Govern structured infrastructure and application testing to support a seamless transition.
• Manage vendor deliverables and performance while ensuring alignment with State security policies and compliance standards.
• Maintain clear, consistent communications for technical stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Lead project management best practices, maintain complete project documentation, and support knowledge transfer and transition activities for State staff at project completion.

Qualifications

• Required Technical Experience: 5–7 years of IT Project Management experience, including the ability to manage schedules, work breakdown structures, scope, budgets, timelines, project documentation, communications, risks, issues, dependencies, and change activities.
• Data Center Migration Leadership experience: Direct experience leading data center migration projects, including coordinating the physical relocation of compute, storage, and network infrastructure and managing the interdependencies between facility, infrastructure, network, carrier, vendor, and application teams.
• Infrastructure and Facility Readiness experience: Experience overseeing data center or facility readiness activities involving power, cooling, fire suppression, physical security, and access controls.
• Testing, Vendor, and Compliance experience: Experience managing structured infrastructure and application integration testing, overseeing vendor deliverables, and ensuring compliance with State security policies and standards.
• Tools And Communication Skills: Experienced with Microsoft Project, SharePoint, and analysis tools. Strong leadership, organization, and communication skills are required, including the ability to work effectively with technical teams, business stakeholders, external vendors, and executive-level leadership.

Education

• Preferred Qualifications: A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience is required. PMP certification is preferred.
• Ideal candidates will have successfully led at least one large-scale data center migration from initial planning through execution. Experience collaborating across infrastructure teams, application managers, external vendors, and executive stakeholders is highly valued.
• The strongest candidates will be comfortable translating strategic goals into actionable migration plans and guiding stakeholders through significant technical and operational change.