Project Manager (Cloud Migration)
Posted 5 days ago by MRJ Recruitment
£70 Per hour
Undetermined
Undetermined
United Kingdom
Summary: The Project Manager will lead a significant cloud migration initiative, transitioning applications and services from legacy servers to AWS Cloud. This role involves coordinating with various stakeholders and technical teams to ensure successful delivery within a major M&A-driven transformation program. The position requires strong project management skills and experience in cloud migration, particularly to AWS. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in shaping the integration and modernization of the business post-acquisition.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end delivery of an application migration programme from legacy infrastructure to AWS
- Build and manage project plans, milestones, budgets, risks, dependencies and RAID logs
- Coordinate cross-functional teams (engineering, architecture, security, operations, business stakeholders, third parties)
- Drive governance, reporting and stakeholder communication at programme and exec level
- Ensure migration readiness: discovery, assessment, cutover planning, testing and go-live coordination
- Manage integration requirements and timelines within an M&A environment, balancing speed with control
- Oversee vendor performance and ensure deliverables meet agreed quality, security and compliance standards
- Support change management activities to ensure smooth adoption and operational transition
Key Skills:
- Proven experience as a Project Manager delivering cloud migration programmes (ideally to AWS)
- Strong track record migrating multiple applications from legacy/on-prem environments to cloud platforms
- Experience working within complex transformation programmes, ideally within M&A or post-merger integration
- Solid understanding of cloud migration approaches (rehost, replatform, refactor) and migration lifecycle
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical teams
- Strong governance, reporting and planning capability; confident managing multiple workstreams
- Familiarity with security, compliance and operational considerations in cloud environments
- Project management certification (PRINCE2, PMP, Agile/SAFe) beneficial but not essential
Salary (Rate): £70.00/hr
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Role: Project Manager
Project: Migrate multiple application and services from Legacy server estate to AWS Cloud Estate
Length: 6 months
We’re supporting a major organisation through an exciting M&A-driven transformation programme and are looking for an experienced Project Manager to lead a large-scale cloud migration. You’ll play a pivotal role in moving a portfolio of applications from legacy/on-prem servers to AWS, coordinating delivery across multiple stakeholders, vendors and technical teams. This is a highly visible position where you’ll help shape how the business integrates, modernises and scales post-acquisition.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end delivery of an application migration programme from legacy infrastructure to AWS
- Build and manage project plans, milestones, budgets, risks, dependencies and RAID logs
- Coordinate cross-functional teams (engineering, architecture, security, operations, business stakeholders, third parties)
- Drive governance, reporting and stakeholder communication at programme and exec level
- Ensure migration readiness: discovery, assessment, cutover planning, testing and go-live coordination
- Manage integration requirements and timelines within an M&A environment, balancing speed with control
- Oversee vendor performance and ensure deliverables meet agreed quality, security and compliance standards
- Support change management activities to ensure smooth adoption and operational transition
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Project Manager delivering cloud migration programmes (ideally to AWS)
- Strong track record migrating multiple applications from legacy/on-prem environments to cloud platforms
- Experience working within complex transformation programmes, ideally within M&A or post-merger integration
- Solid understanding of cloud migration approaches (rehost, replatform, refactor) and migration lifecycle
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical teams
- Strong governance, reporting and planning capability; confident managing multiple workstreams
- Familiarity with security, compliance and operational considerations in cloud environments
- Project management certification (PRINCE2, PMP, Agile/SAFe) beneficial but not essential
Next steps | shortlisting
If you’re an experienced Project Manager with a strong cloud migration background and thrive in fast-paced M&A environments, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now or contact MRJ Recruitment for a confidential conversation.