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Project Manager - Contingent

Job in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 28202, USA
Listing for: Pinnacle Technical Resources
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-10
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    IT Project Manager
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Project Manager 4 - Contingent
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...

| PowerPoint], [August I ...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 Tech Op...P_ | 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 I ...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.…
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