IT Project Manager

The Engagement Manager / Project Manager owns the plan the cadence and the truth of the Nutanix program. This is a hands-on delivery role not a status-collection role: the successful candidate builds and maintains the migration wave plan sequences application owners and change windows drives risks and dependencies to closure and gives both client leadership and Stefanini a single defensible view of progress. Because the engagement begins as staff augmentation and is intended to grow into managed services this role is also the commercial and relational front door - the person the clients infrastructure leadership calls first.

Planning and Migration Governance

• Build and maintain the end-to-end migration wave plan: workload grouping application dependency sequencing cutover windows freeze periods and rollback checkpoints aligned to the clients VMware exit timeline.
• Run the intake and readiness process for each wave - confirming assessment complete application owner sign-off obtained backup and DR coverage verified and validation criteria agreed before a wave is scheduled.
• Own the RAID log (risks assumptions issues dependencies) with named owners dates and mitigation actions reviewed at a defined cadence rather than at escalation time.
• Coordinate change management: prepare and submit change records represent the migration at the clients CAB and ensure back-out plans are documented and tested.

Stakeholder Management and Communication

• Serve as the single point of coordination between client infrastructure application network security and backup teams and the Stefanini engineering pod.
• Produce a weekly status package - waves complete VMs migrated defects open risks next-window plan - and a monthly executive summary suitable for the clients IT leadership.
• Facilitate cutover bridge calls: pre-cutover go/no-go live coordination during the window and post-cutover validation confirmation.
• Manage expectations proactively - surface schedule and scope pressure early with options not after the date has slipped.

Delivery Resource and Commercial Management

• Coordinate day-to-day assignment of the migration support and automation engineers; manage utilization coverage for on-call and maintenance windows and PTO/handoff planning.
• Track engagement financials appropriate to a staff augmentation model: hours timesheet accuracy burn against approved allocation and change-order triggers when the client requests work outside agreed scope.
• Enforce quality gates - no wave is declared complete without validation evidence updated documentation and application owner acceptance.
• Own onboarding and offboarding of Stefanini resources: access provisioning client training compliance knowledge transfer and clean exit documentation.

Transition to Managed Services

• Capture operational data during migration - ticket volumes incident patterns effort per workload type recurring failure modes - that informs the managed services scope SLA design and pricing model.
• Drive the hypercare exit criteria and the handover from project delivery into steady-state support including runbook completeness and support model definition.
• Identify and qualify expansion opportunities - additional clusters DR backup modernization automation platform managed services - and route them to the Stefanini account team with sufficient technical detail to shape a proposal.

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology Engineering Business or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of IT project or program management with at least 3 years leading infrastructure programs - virtualization hyperconverged infrastructure data center migration or hosting/platform transitions.
• Demonstrated experience managing at least one enterprise virtualization migration or data center move of comparable complexity with responsibility for cutover planning and execution.
• Working technical fluency in virtualization and infrastructure concepts - clusters hypervisors storage networking backup and DR - sufficient to challenge estimates spot risk and hold a credible conversation with engineers without relaying every question.
• Experience managing distributed or blended delivery teams including offshore resources across time zones.
• Hands-on proficiency with project and ITSM tooling - Microsoft Project Smartsheet or Jira for planning and ServiceNow or equivalent for change and incident tracking.
• Experience operating under formal change control in a regulated environment; healthcare/HIPAA experience strongly preferred.

• PMP PRINCE2 Practitioner or PMI-ACP; ITIL v4 Foundation.
• Prior experience in a professional services or systems integrator environment with awareness of scope margin and change-order dynamics.
• Familiarity with Nutanix or VMware platform terminology and migration tooling; direct Nutanix program experience is a differentiator.