Project Manager Data Center Migration

Description of Project

• The Minnesota Department of Information Technology Services (MNIT) partnering with the Minnesota Department of Revenue is seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to lead a datacenter migration project.
• Revenue manages a datacenter which contains essential data and applications related to taxes and Revenue operations.
• A dedicated project team will be formed to oversee the tasks of migrating off the local and backup datacenters to Azure Cloud other clouds and an alternate data center.
• Stakeholders will collaborate to analyze document and prepare for the migration.
• At a high level the resource will assume the role of project manager leading overseeing and coordinating the activities essential for the successful completion of this data center migration project.
• They may also work with other project managers of sub projects to coordinate the overall program of migration projects.

Sample Tasks

• Define the project scope objectives and success criteria.
• Identify key stakeholders including IT and agency representatives.
• Develop a project charter that outlines roles and responsibilities.
• Develop a detailed migration plan including timelines and milestones. This may include creating subprojects in order to distribute some work to additional Project Managers.
• Working with stakeholders and architects determine where individual applications and data will migrate to.
• Develop a plan to track subprojects related to the overall effort including overseeing subproject schedules/scopes/risks/issues and regularly coordinating with communicating with other PMs assigned to subprojects.
• Establish clear communication channels with IT and agency stakeholders.
• Hold regular meetings to update stakeholders on project progress.
• Collaborate with agency stakeholders to verify the accuracy of critical data.
• Coordinate and track the development of a comprehensive testing plan.
• Coordinate and track the thorough testing of data integrity access controls and functionality.
• Coordinate and track the creation of ongoing support and documentation including architectural diagrams and support documentation for both IT and business users.
• Schedule coordinate and track the actual migration of data and applications.
• Monitor the migration process to ensure data integrity and minimal downtime.
• Evaluate the success of the migration against the defined success criteria.
• Create a final project report summarizing the entire migration process.

Desired Skills

• Five (5) years experience performing IT Project Management functions.
• Two (2) years experience performing IT Program Management functions.
• Two (2) engagements lasting more than six (6) months successfully managing a project involving the migration of large data centers to the cloud to another data center or a combination.
• Ability to manage and mediate stakeholder requirements and input as they relate to a project scope and objectives.
• Critical thinking skills to analyze project requirements and inputs and make decisions that result in high quality project outputs.
• Hands on experience with cloud or data center migrations.
• Ability to lead project teams using Agile and traditional project management methods.