Cloud Migration Program Manager

RESPONSIBILITIES

Kforce has a client that is seeking a Cloud Migration Program Manager in Chicago, IL.

Key Tasks

• Provide end-to-end program leadership for a large-scale enterprise cloud migration and/or data center transformation initiative
• Develop and maintain the integrated program roadmap, migration strategy, milestones, dependencies, and delivery schedule
• Coordinate application discovery and portfolio assessment activities to establish migration scope, ownership, technical requirements, and migration readiness
• Drive application and infrastructure dependency mapping to identify upstream/downstream systems, integrations, network requirements, data dependencies, and potential migration risks
• Lead the development and execution of migration-wave plans, grouping applications and workloads based on business criticality, technical dependencies, migration approach, and organizational readiness
• Coordinate detailed cutover planning and sequencing, ensuring application, infrastructure, security, network, database, and business teams are aligned prior to migration events
• Manage program-level risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and critical decisions, proactively escalating items that could impact scope, schedule, cost, or business operations
• Partner closely with cloud architects, infrastructure engineering, application teams, cybersecurity, networking, database teams, and business stakeholders to ensure successful technical delivery
• Establish and manage program governance, including executive steering meetings, delivery reviews, RAID management, status reporting, and decision-making processes
• Develop concise, executive-level reporting that clearly communicates program health, progress, risks, financials, dependencies, and decisions required
• Manage complex relationships across multiple vendors, including cloud hyperscalers, systems integrators, managed service providers, and technology partners

REQUIREMENTS

• 10-15+ years of IT program and/or project management experience, including leadership of highly complex enterprise technology initiatives
• Direct experience leading a large-scale enterprise cloud migration, data center migration, data center exit, or infrastructure modernization program
• Strong experience working within Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and/or complex hybrid cloud environments
• Demonstrated experience managing the lifecycle of cloud migration programs, including: Application discovery and portfolio assessment; Application and infrastructure dependency mapping; Migration readiness; Migration-wave planning; Cutover planning and sequencing; Testing and validation; Risk and issue management; Post-migration stabilization
• Experience coordinating delivery across applications, infrastructure, networking, cybersecurity, data, cloud engineering, and business teams
• Experience managing hyperscalers, systems integrators, consulting partners, and/or managed service providers
• Demonstrated experience managing program budgets, forecasts, vendor spend, and financial performance
• Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure and cloud concepts, with the ability to effectively communicate and coordinate with architects and technical engineering teams
• Strong program governance capabilities, including RAID management, dependency management, milestone tracking, executive reporting, and escalation management
• Strong executive communication and presentation skills with the ability to translate technical program details into clear business-level updates
• Strong leadership, communication, facilitation, organizational, and problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to manage large, complex programs involving multiple internal and external delivery partners
• Ability to manage competing priorities and make sound decisions within a fast-paced, highly matrixed enterprise environment