Financial Services - Data Center Infrastructure & Migration - Tech Consulting - Manager - NYC

EY•New York, NY

1d•$166,900 - $278,100•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a manager who has led complex data center (including co-lo) and Cloud infrastructure transformation or migration programs in financial services or a similarly controlled environment. The individual must understand the infrastructure stack, the information required to move business-critical workloads safely, and the governance needed to coordinate facilities, network, compute, storage, applications, cyber, recovery and operations. This is not a general PMO position. The work is focused primarily on banking, capital markets, insurance and payments clients. Selected assignments may include other highly regulated or mission-critical organizations where resilience, control, and disciplined execution are central to the client's agenda.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or related discipline.
At least 7 years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, data center or Cloud transformation, migrations, operations, resiliency or technology consulting.
Leadership on at least one complex Cloud or data center consolidation, exit, colocation move or infrastructure migration involving business-critical workloads.
Strong working knowledge across multiple infrastructure domains and the ability to identify cross-stack dependencies and operational risks.
Ownership of migration governance, wave planning, readiness, cutover, rollback, hypercare and transition to operations.
Public-cloud migration experience is relevant and is a substitute for data center infrastructure migration, consolidation and exit experience although experience with both is preferred
Experience communicating with senior technology, risk, business and operations stakeholders in a controlled change environment.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience using ServiceNow CMDB/ITSM/ITOM, BMC Helix or equivalent to validate configuration data, service relationships, change records, incidents and ownership.
Practical use of discovery and dependency data from ServiceNow Discovery/Service Mapping, Device42, BMC Discovery, Dynatect, AppDynamics or equivalent, including reconciliation and data limitations.
Working knowledge of VMware vCenter and virtualization migration concepts; VMware HCX, vMotion/Live Migration or equivalent experience is preferred where applicable.
Experience with Azure Migrate, AWS Migration Hub/Application Discovery Service or equivalent is preferred but does not replace data center migration experience.
Applied use of Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, Microsoft Project or Smartsheet to manage waves, dependencies, change, defects, readiness and cutover actions.
Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; working use of Visio or equivalent for dependency, wave, network or operating-model views. Power BI is preferred for control-tower reporting.
Exposure to monitoring/observability, backup/recovery, IPAM/DNS, network management and automation tooling sufficient to evaluate readiness and coordinate specialists.
Experience applying Microsoft Copilot, GitHub Copilot or comparable enterprise AI tools to support infrastructure analysis, dependency review, migration planning, documentation, reporting, testing support or workflow automation is preferred.
Ability to demonstrate validation, traceability, confidentiality controls, and professional judgment when using AI-generated outputs in a regulated environment.
Banking, capital markets, insurance or payments infrastructure with stringent availability, latency, recovery or change-control requirements.
Mainframe and distributed infrastructure, storage replication, network segmentation, load balancing, database, or middleware migration.
Operational resilience, business continuity, disaster recovery, cyber recovery, third-party risk or regulatory remediation.
Colocation transition coordinated with facility build, commissioning, rack integration and circuit delivery.
Relevant credentials such as PMP, ITIL, SAFe, Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) or infrastructure architecture certifications are preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

Lead assessment of data center and Cloud hosted compute, virtualization, storage, network, load balancing, DNS/IPAM, backup, recovery, monitoring, security, platform and support dependencies.
Define or validate hosting, workload-placement, consolidation, exit and migration strategies across enterprise-owned data centers, colocation and cloud environments.
Direct discovery, CMDB reconciliation, dependency mapping, disposition decisions, migration-wave design, and detailed cutover planning.
Establish migration-factory and control-tower governance, including entry/exit criteria, wave plans, readiness evidence, RAID management, decision forums and executive reporting.
Lead planning for virtualization, physical, platform, storage, network, database and application moves, including rollback and continuity requirements.
Drive go/no-go decisions based on testing, connectivity, replication, security, observability, support coverage, recovery, business validation and change approvals.
Oversee cutover command, escalation, validation, hypercare, transition to operations, exit and decommission tracking.
Connect data center capacity, rack/room readiness, network availability and facility commissioning milestones to migration sequencing.
Advise leaders on service continuity, operational resilience, recovery objectives, concentration risk, dependencies and trade-offs.
Lead EY and client teams, economics, quality, methods, accelerators, proposals and market development.