Project Manager 4 - Contingent

Client is seeking an experienced Senior Technology Project Manager to lead a large-scale enterprise data platform modernization initiative focused on the retirement of a legacy Hadoop ecosystem and migration of applications, data assets, and platform services to strategic target-state platforms. A strategic technology leader who combines strong program management discipline with the ability to navigate complex enterprise environments, influence senior stakeholders, manage large-scale transformation efforts, and deliver measurable business outcomes through modernization and platform retirement initiatives.

Position: IT Project Manager
Location: Charlotte, NC/ Irving, Chandler, Minneapolis (Hybrid)
Duration: 12 months

Job Description:

• Client is seeking an experienced Senior Technology Project Manager to lead a large-scale enterprise data platform modernization initiative focused on the retirement of a legacy Hadoop ecosystem and migration of applications, data assets, and platform services to strategic target-state platforms.
• This role will be responsible for driving end-to-end execution of a multi-year transformation program involving application migrations, infrastructure decommissioning, cloud adoption, risk remediation, stakeholder management, financial governance, and operational readiness activities.
• The successful candidate will partner with technology leaders, architects, product owners, infrastructure teams, cybersecurity, operations, and business stakeholders to ensure the successful retirement of legacy platforms while minimizing business disruption.

Key Responsibilities:
Program Leadership

• Lead a complex, cross-functional technology modernization program involving retirement of enterprise Hadoop platforms and supporting infrastructure.
• Establish and manage program governance, reporting, executive communications, and steering committee reviews.
• Develop and maintain integrated roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, risk registers, financial tracking, and delivery plans.
• Drive accountability across multiple technology teams and business partners.

Platform Retirement & Migration Execution:

• Oversee discovery, assessment, prioritization, and migration of applications, tenants, and data workloads from legacy Hadoop environments.
• Coordinate migration activities across cloud platforms, data platforms, middleware services, security teams, infrastructure providers, and application teams.
• Manage application retirement, tenant offboarding, data archival, infrastructure shutdown, and decommissioning activities.
• Ensure migration readiness reviews, cutover planning, production implementation, and post-migration stabilization are successfully completed. [EDL Platfo...ration_V16 | PowerPoint], [August IBR...ess Review | PowerPoint]
• Stakeholder & Executive Management
• Build strong relationships with senior technology leaders and business stakeholders.
• Provide concise executive-level updates on delivery status, risks, financial impacts, and business outcomes.
• Facilitate decision-making and issue resolution across multiple organizations and lines of business.
• Present program health, milestones, and transformation progress to executive leadership.

Risk & Compliance Management

• Lead remediation efforts related to platform vulnerabilities, EOS/EOL technologies, audit findings, and regulatory commitments.
• Drive risk mitigation plans and ensure compliance requirements are incorporated into migration and retirement activities.
• Coordinate with Cyber Security, Infrastructure, Operations, Architecture, and Risk organizations to address dependencies and impediments. [EDT&O Week...2026 Final | PowerPoint], [CDO TechOp...P_20260817 | PowerPoint]

Financial & Business Value Tracking

• Manage budget oversight and forecast delivery against committed business case objectives.
• Monitor benefits realization including infrastructure savings, software license reductions, platform rationalization, and operational efficiencies.
• Develop and maintain executive-level reporting on cost avoidance, run-rate savings, and modernization outcomes. [August IBR...ess Review | PowerPoint], [Q2 CDO Scoreboard | PDF]

Operational Readiness & Change Management

• Coordinate production readiness reviews, business continuity testing, support transitions, and operational acceptance.
• Ensure comprehensive communication, training, documentation, and stakeholder preparedness throughout the program lifecycle.
• Drive organizational change management strategies to support adoption of target-state platforms.

Required Qualifications:

• 10 plus years of project, program, or portfolio management experience within large-scale technology organizations.
• Proven experience leading complex infrastructure transformation, data platform modernization, cloud migration, or data center exit initiatives.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data platforms, distributed computing technologies, and cloud transformation programs.
• Experience managing multimillion-dollar programs with multiple workstreams, vendors, and executive stakeholders.
• Demonstrated expertise in risk management, financial governance, executive reporting, and dependency management.
• Experience using Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Hadoop ecosystems including Hortonworks, Cloudera, MapR, Hive, Spark, Oozie, HDFS, or related technologies.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, AWS, or private cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with enterprise data engineering, ETL modernization, data governance, and analytics platforms.
• Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure decommissioning and application retirement programs.
• PMP, PgMP, Agile, SAFe, or equivalent certification.

Success Measures:

• Within the first 12 months, the successful candidate will:
• Deliver critical migration milestones for remaining Hadoop applications and tenants.
• Successfully coordinate platform decommissioning and infrastructure retirement activities.
• Reduce technology risk associated with legacy platforms and end-of-life technologies.
• Achieve committed modernization, cost optimization, and operational efficiency objectives.
• Establish transparent executive reporting and governance processes that enable predictable program delivery.
• Ideal Candidate Profile
• A strategic technology leader who combines strong program management discipline with the ability to navigate complex enterprise environments, influence senior stakeholders, manage large-scale transformation efforts, and deliver measurable business outcomes through modernization and platform retirement initiatives.

Top Skillsets:

• Senior project management experience
• Enterprise migration experience

In this contingent resource assignment, candidates may:

• Consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for Project Management.
• Review and analyze complex multi-faceted, larger scale or longer-term Project Management challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors including intangibles or unprecedented factors.
• Contribute to the resolution of complex and multi-faceted situations requiring solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements that meet deliverables.
• Strategically collaborate and consult with client personnel.

Required Qualifications:

• 5 plus years of Project Management experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.

Pay Range: $60.00 - $68.00/hr on W2

The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. Our full-time consultants have access to benefits including medical, dental, vision and 401K contributions as well as any other PTO, sick leave, and other benefits mandated by appliable state or localities where you reside or work.

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