Financial Services - Data Center Infrastructure & Migration - Tech Consulting - Manager - NYC

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The opportunity

We are seeking a manager who has led complex data center (including co-lo) and Cloud infrastructure transformation or migration programs in financial services or a similarly controlled environment. The individual must understand the infrastructure stack, the information required to move business-critical workloads safely, and the governance needed to coordinate facilities, network, compute, storage, applications, cyber, recovery and operations. This is not a general PMO position.

The work is focused primarily on banking, capital markets, insurance and payments clients. Selected assignments may include other highly regulated or mission-critical organizations where resilience, control, and disciplined execution are central to the client's agenda.

Your key responsibilities

• Lead assessment of data center and Cloud hosted compute, virtualization, storage, network, load balancing, DNS/IPAM, backup, recovery, monitoring, security, platform and support dependencies.
• Define or validate hosting, workload-placement, consolidation, exit and migration strategies across enterprise-owned data centers, colocation and cloud environments.
• Direct discovery, CMDB reconciliation, dependency mapping, disposition decisions, migration-wave design, and detailed cutover planning.
• Establish migration-factory and control-tower governance, including entry/exit criteria, wave plans, readiness evidence, RAID management, decision forums and executive reporting.
• Lead planning for virtualization, physical, platform, storage, network, database and application moves, including rollback and continuity requirements.
• Drive go/no-go decisions based on testing, connectivity, replication, security, observability, support coverage, recovery, business validation and change approvals.
• Oversee cutover command, escalation, validation, hypercare, transition to operations, exit and decommission tracking.
• Connect data center capacity, rack/room readiness, network availability and facility commissioning milestones to migration sequencing.
• Advise leaders on service continuity, operational resilience, recovery objectives, concentration risk, dependencies and trade-offs.
• Lead EY and client teams, economics, quality, methods, accelerators, proposals and market development.

Required experience and qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or related discipline.
• At least 7 years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, data center or Cloud transformation, migrations, operations, resiliency or technology consulting.
• Leadership on at least one complex Cloud or data center consolidation, exit, colocation move or infrastructure migration involving business-critical workloads.
• Strong working knowledge across multiple infrastructure domains and the ability to identify cross-stack dependencies and operational risks.
• Ownership of migration governance, wave planning, readiness, cutover, rollback, hypercare and transition to operations.
• Public-cloud migration experience is relevant and is a substitute for data center infrastructure migration, consolidation and exit experience although experience with both is preferred
• Experience communicating with senior technology, risk, business and operations stakeholders in a controlled change environment.

Required software and technical tooling

• Hands-on experience using Service Now CMDB/ITSM/ITOM, BMC Helix or equivalent to validate configuration data, service relationships, change records, incidents and ownership.
• Practical use of discovery and dependency data from Service Now Discovery/Service Mapping, Device
  42, BMC Discovery, Dynatrace, App Dynamics or equivalent, including reconciliation and data limitations.
• Working knowledge of VMware vCenter and virtualization migration concepts; VMware HCX, vMotion/Live Migration or equivalent experience is preferred where applicable.
• Experience with Azure Migrate, AWS Migration Hub/Application Discovery Service or equivalent is preferred but does not replace data center migration experience.
• Applied use of Jira, Azure Dev Ops, Service Now, Microsoft Project or Smartsheet to manage waves,…