IT Project Manager

Stefanini Group•Miami, FL

15h

About The Position

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 client's infrastructure leadership calls first.

Requirements

Bachelor's 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.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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 client's 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 client's CAB, and ensure back-out plans are documented and tested.
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 client's 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.
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.
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.