PMO Lead

NTT DATA is seeking a PMO Lead to support the LAUSD AWS Transformation Migration program in Los Angeles, California. This client-facing role requires a highly organized delivery leader with strong technical understanding of AWS cloud migration, infrastructure modernization, application migration planning, security, networking, dependency management, and operational transition.

About the role

This role is based in Los Angeles, California and requires onsite presence at the LAUSD office two to three days per week, including participation in customer meetings, governance sessions, technical workshops, and other program-related activities.

Responsibilities

• Lead PMO activities for the LAUSD AWS Transformation Migration program, including governance, integrated planning, workstream coordination, schedule management, risk tracking, issue resolution, and executive status reporting.
• Coordinate across LAUSD stakeholders, NTT DATA delivery teams, AWS architects, application owners, infrastructure teams, security teams, operations teams, vendors, and third-party partners to maintain alignment and accountability.
• Develop and maintain integrated migration plans, dependency logs, RAID logs, decision logs, cutover plans, status dashboards, and executive-ready program materials.
• Partner with AWS architects and technical leads to track application readiness, infrastructure readiness, security requirements, migration waves, data dependencies, testing plans, cutover activities, and post-migration stabilization.
• Facilitate program governance meetings, technical working sessions, customer briefings, risk reviews, migration readiness reviews, steering committee preparation, and onsite customer meetings at LAUSD locations as required.
• Provide confident, fact-based communication when urgent decisions are required, including clearly presenting options, impacts, risks, tradeoffs, and recommended actions.
• Serve as a customer-facing escalation point for schedule conflicts, technical blockers, dependency gaps, migration risks, and cross-team coordination issues.
• Drive accountability across matrixed teams while maintaining a professional, calm, transparent, and solution-oriented approach with LAUSD leadership and delivery stakeholders.
• Support operational transition activities, including runbook readiness, support model alignment, SLA/KPI expectations, knowledge transfer, escalation procedures, and handoff to managed services operations.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience leading complex technology programs, cloud transformation initiatives, infrastructure modernization efforts, application migrations, or large-scale IT delivery programs, with a proven record of successful outcomes.
• 5+ years of experience in PMO leadership, program management, delivery governance, or portfolio coordination within matrixed enterprise environments.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related field preferred; equivalent professional experience will be considered.
• Availability to work onsite at the LAUSD office in Los Angeles, California two to three days per week and participate onsite in customer meetings, workshops, and program governance sessions as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on technical understanding of AWS cloud migration concepts, including landing zones, networking, identity and access management, security controls, compute, storage, databases, application dependencies, migration waves, testing, and cutover planning.
• Experience supporting public-sector, education, government, or highly regulated clients where governance, compliance, stakeholder management, and executive communications are critical.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate with technical architects, engineers, business stakeholders, customer executives, vendors, and operations teams in a clear and credible manner.
• Proven ability to make quick, sound decisions under pressure by assessing facts, identifying risks, escalating appropriately, and recommending practical recovery actions.
• Experience developing executive status reports, migration dashboards, integrated schedules, RAID logs, dependency trackers, action item registers, and formal governance documentation.
• PMP certification preferred; AWS, Agile, ITIL, infrastructure, cloud, or security-related certifications are strongly preferred.

Skills

• Strong technical credibility with the ability to understand AWS migration sequencing, application dependencies, infrastructure readiness, security impacts, network constraints, operational support needs, and customer risk considerations.
• Customer-facing presence with the ability to represent NTT DATA professionally in onsite and remote meetings with LAUSD leadership, technical teams, project stakeholders, and vendor partners.
• Ability to think quickly, remain calm under pressure, and make practical decisions when faced with urgent issues, conflicting inputs, incomplete information, or time-sensitive migration events.
• Excellent facilitation, communication, negotiation, conflict-resolution, meeting management, and follow-through skills.
• Ability to create structure in ambiguous environments, drive accountability, and maintain disciplined documentation across fast-moving migration workstreams.
• Comfortable working in a high-pressure delivery environment where customer confidence, AWS migration timelines, technical blockers, security requirements, and vendor coordination must be managed simultaneously.
• Experience supporting K-12 education, large public-sector clients, or enterprise environments with complex governance, procurement, security, and stakeholder communication requirements is a plus.

Pay

The starting pay range for this role is $117,232 - $195,388. This range reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation for the position across all US locations. Actual compensation will depend on the candidate’s actual work location, relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications. This position may also be eligible for incentive compensation based on individual and/or company performance.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer contribution
• Flexible spending or health savings account
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Short and long term disability coverage
• Paid time off
• Employee assistance program
• 401k program with company match
• Additional voluntary or legally-required benefits