Migration Manager
1 day ago
New York
Role:- M365 Migration Project Manager Location:- New York 10004 Type of Hire: Contract Job Description: • The Project Manager will lead and coordinate the global migration of local and shared content including U drives, L drives, shared network folders, and legacy SharePoint sites' to Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint Online., • This role ensures a seamless transition to modern cloudbased storage by driving planning, execution, stakeholder alignment, governance, and risk management across multiple business units., • The ideal candidate is an experienced project manager with strong communication skills, deep familiarity with Microsoft 365, and the ability to navigate complex, cross functional environments. Key Responsibilities: Project Planning and Governance: • Develop and maintain the overall project plan, migration schedule, wave structure, communication strategy, and success metrics., • Define scope and prioritization for content migration across business units and geographic regions., • Lead day to day execution of migration waves including readiness checks, tool execution, validation, and cutover activities., • Coordinate work with other internal Technology teams, (Infrastructure, Collaboration Services, Information Security)., • Ensure all migration steps: including remediation of legacy features, permissions mapping, and content hygiene, are executed according to enterprise standards., • Drive pilot BU migrations and scale up phases while monitoring throughput, blockers, and performance of migration tooling. Stakeholder and Change Management: • Serve as primary liaison across business units, Site Owners, Technology Owners, and line of business leadership., • Facilitate workshops, readiness briefings, and migration governance calls to align expectations and communicate upcoming changes., • Deliver user focused communication including pre migration notices, post migration instructions, and targeted guidance for high impact groups., • Support end users and site owners through transition, coordinating with Service Desk and Support teams for issue resolution. Business Unit (BU) Risk Management: • Identify, document, and actively manage BU specific risks associated with the migration (e.g., data sensitivity, legacy workflows, regulatory exposure, access inconsistencies, operational dependencies)., • Conduct pre migration BU risk assessments to validate content types, special handling requirements, and business critical processes., • Work with BU Leadership, BU Risk Officers, and Technology Risk to ensure risks are properly logged, categorized, tracked, and mitigated before migration activities begin., • Communicate dependency based risks (e.g., disabling sync clients, addressing deprecated features, preparing critical applications) and drive timely BU action., • Maintain a structured BU level risk register with clear owners, due dates, mitigation plans, and escalation paths., • Validate that post migration access controls, retention rules, audit readiness, and governance policies meet corporate standards before sign off. Quality, Compliance and Documentation: • Ensure that migration activities comply with data governance, retention policies, entitlements standards, and regulatory requirements., • Maintain documentation of all major decisions, cutover steps, mapping files, and validation reports., • Track and report quality KPIs such as content success rates, remediation completion, user adoption, and error reduction., • Capture lessons learned for continuous improvement across future migration cycles. Required Qualifications: • 5 plus years of experience, preferably in enterprise technology, end user computing, digital transformation, or infrastructure programs., • Proven experience leading migration projects, • Strong working knowledge of OneDrive, SharePoint Online, permissions, content lifecycle, retention, and collaboration patterns., • Excellent communication skills with the ability to manage diverse stakeholder groups, including executives, technical teams, and end users., • Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams, deadlines, and dependencies., • BA Degree required. Preferred Qualifications: • Experience with large scale enterprise migrations, including phased/pilot approaches, cross region rollouts, and highvolume entitlement changes. -Familiarity with Microsoft Migration Manager, SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT), or third-party migration solutions., • Understanding of information security, data classification, and regulatory compliance frameworks., • Experience partnering with BU Risk, Compliance, and Governance teams.