Senior IT Project Manager​/Transition Lead

Senior It Project Manager / Application Transition Lead

NTT Data is seeking an experienced Senior IT Project Manager / Application Transition Lead to provide IT leadership, oversight, and coordination across a portfolio of business application transition initiatives associated with a large-scale acquisition carve-out. The individual will serve as the primary IT point of accountability for assigned applications, ensuring each initiative has clear business and IT ownership, an appropriate project or workplan, accountable delivery leadership, identified IT activities, and a well-defined path through implementation and operational support.

This role is broader than traditional project management. Individual application initiatives may be managed by dedicated IT Project Managers, business leads, or other delivery owners. The Application Transition Lead will work effectively across these different delivery models, providing IT oversight and readiness assurance without unnecessarily duplicating the responsibilities of the assigned Project Manager or Business Lead. The successful candidate will combine strong project/program management discipline, application delivery knowledge, stakeholder leadership, and hands-on problem-solving skills.

The role requires the ability to operate at a portfolio level while diving into application-level details when necessary to identify gaps, resolve dependencies, coordinate IT activities, and drive transition readiness.

Key Responsibilities

• Application Transition Leadership
• Serve as the primary IT lead and point of accountability for an assigned portfolio of application transition and implementation initiatives.
• Ensure each assigned application has:
• Clear business and IT ownership
• Appropriate delivery leadership
• A defined project plan or workplan
• Clear milestones and dependencies
• Identified IT activities and resources
• A defined implementation approach
• Clear operational and support ownership
• Assess the delivery model and determine the appropriate level of IT involvement required for each application initiative.
• Provide IT oversight across both IT-led and business-led initiatives, adapting the level of involvement based on project complexity, risk, and delivery structure.
• Ensure applications progress through the transition lifecycle with appropriate governance, ownership, planning, and readiness.
• Project & Program Oversight
• Partner with assigned Project Managers and Business Leads to maintain visibility into project plans, milestones, risks, dependencies, decisions, resources, and outstanding IT actions.
• Provide oversight and readiness assurance without duplicating the day-to-day responsibilities of dedicated Project Managers.
• Review project and application plans to identify gaps, missing activities, unclear ownership, dependencies, and potential delivery risks.
• Drive unresolved IT actions and decisions to closure in partnership with appropriate stakeholders.
• Ensure appropriate escalation and intervention when applications lack sufficient planning, ownership, resources, decisions, or readiness.
• Coordinate multiple concurrent initiatives while maintaining appropriate prioritization and focus.
• Application-Level Readiness & Delivery
• Dive into application-level details as required to identify delivery gaps, clarify requirements, confirm dependencies, establish ownership, and resolve outstanding issues.
• Assess and confirm readiness throughout the application transition lifecycle, including, as applicable:
• Business and technical requirements
• Solution approach and architecture
• Infrastructure and hosting
• Security and access
• Data requirements
• Interfaces and integrations
• Environment readiness
• Testing and validation
• Deployment and cutover
• Documentation
• Knowledge Transfer (KT)
• Operational support and ownership
• Coordinate and drive completion of required IT activities, particularly for business-led initiatives that do not have a dedicated IT Project Manager.
• Identify cross-application dependencies and coordinate resolution with appropriate business and technology teams.
• Confirm that applications have a clear path from transition planning through implementation and ongoing operational support.
• Stakeholder &…