Senior Project Manager - Atlassian Cloud Migration

NTT DATA Services•Upper Merion Township, PA

1d•$106,575 - $177,625

About The Position

NTT DATA is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead large-scale Atlassian Data Center-to-Cloud migration programs involving Jira, Jira Service Management, Confluence, Marketplace applications, integrations, identity, testing, cutover, and post-migration stabilization. The role involves managing complex enterprise platform migrations across multiple technical workstreams, external vendors, customer stakeholders, business users, and strict production cutover timelines. The Project Manager is responsible for end-to-end planning and governance, dependency and risk management, stakeholder coordination, financial tracking, migration wave planning, UAT governance, cutover readiness, and hypercare. The role requires sufficient familiarity with Atlassian migration terminology and architecture to manage technical teams and challenge assumptions, while partnering with the Atlassian Architect and technical leads. The position is based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. NTT DATA states that roles may offer remote or hybrid options, subject to client requirements and business needs; in-office attendance near an office or client site may be required for meetings or events.

Requirements

At least 8 years of experience in end-to-end planning and governance of large-scale Data Center-to-Cloud migration programs, preferably involving Atlassian platforms and related applications, integrations, identity, testing, cutover, and stabilization, or similar programs.
At least 8 years of experience in large-scale program dependency and risk management, stakeholder coordination, financial tracking, migration wave planning, UAT governance, cutover readiness, and hypercare.
At least 8 years of experience developing and maintaining detailed integrated project plans using MS Project Plan (.mpp) or similar tools.
At least 8 years of internal and external stakeholder management, including customer management, and the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, architects, business owners, third-party vendors, and executives.
At least 4 years of experience managing enterprise platform or SaaS transformation programs.
At least 4 years of proven experience with Data Center-to-Cloud migrations.
At least 4 years of experience managing multi-workstream programs.
At least 3 years of proven experience managing two or more fixed-price or fixed-capacity engagements.
Experience working with globally distributed teams.
Strong written and executive communication skills.
Ability to lead complex programs across multiple technical and business teams, with strong planning, tracking, execution, and risk-management capabilities.
Sufficient understanding of Atlassian migration concepts to identify unrealistic assumptions and challenge delivery teams.
Commercial awareness of fixed-price delivery, scope boundaries, assumptions, and change control.
Cutover leadership skills, including the ability to run a structured production command center and drive rapid decisions under pressure.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience managing migration programs involving Jira, Jira Service Management, Confluence, Atlassian Cloud, Marketplace applications, ScriptRunner, Identity/SSO, Atlassian Guard, JCMA, or CCMA.
Understanding of Atlassian concepts including projects, spaces, issues, workflows, custom fields, Marketplace applications, migration assistants, ScriptRunner, user migration, SSO, SCIM, UAT waves, migration rehearsals, and cutover.

Responsibilities

Own delivery management for the Atlassian Data Center-to-Cloud migration across Jira, Jira Service Management, Confluence, Marketplace applications, identity and access management, enterprise integrations, ScriptRunner/customization remediation, data migration, testing, business validation, cutover, and hypercare.
Develop and manage integrated program plans for discovery, assessment, remediation, environment readiness, migration rehearsals, pilot migration, UAT, production migration waves, transition, and stabilization.
Maintain a detailed integrated project plan covering technical and application assessment, data cleanup, plugin and script remediation, identity and integration readiness, migration tooling, testing, UAT, cutover, production migration, and hypercare.
Identify and manage the critical path, dependencies, milestones, entry and exit criteria, decision points, and go/no-go gates; ensure plans align with the technical migration strategy.
Manage migration waves from planning through closure.
Own cutover planning and governance, ensuring production cutovers have clear accountability and decision authority.
Maintain a structured RAID (risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies) framework.
Establish appropriate governance forums and coordinate with CIO/CTO organizations, enterprise architects, platform owners, business owners, security teams, procurement, Atlassian, Marketplace vendors, and external delivery partners.
Coordinate with business teams on application owner identification, project and space ownership, business criticality classification, cleanup, data validation, UAT, business acceptance, downtime communications, and migration scheduling.
Establish scope governance and maintain formal change request governance.
Manage financial and commercial matters, resources and capacity, quality and readiness governance, and communications.
Lead structured production command-center activity and drive timely decisions under pressure.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance with an employer contribution.
Flexible spending or health savings account.
Life and AD&D insurance.
Short- and long-term disability coverage.
Paid time off.
Employee assistance program.
401(k) program with company match.
Additional voluntary or legally required benefits.
The position may be eligible for incentive compensation based on individual and/or company performance.

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