Overview
The Infrastructure Migration Lead will oversee the coordination of complex infrastructure migrations within a major European M&A integration programme. In this hands-on role, the contractor will work closely with internal teams, third-party suppliers, and business stakeholders to ensure successful delivery across multiple locations, handling everything from planning to post-migration support while managing technical dependencies and stakeholder engagement.
Responsibilities
- Lead the planning and coordination of infrastructure migrations across multiple European locations.
- Manage site readiness, migration waves, cutover activities, rollback planning, and hypercare.
- Coordinate internal teams, local IT, third-party suppliers, and managed service providers to ensure successful delivery.
- Work closely with Azure, Microsoft 365, networking, infrastructure, and security teams to manage technical dependencies.
- Drive stakeholder engagement across business and technical teams, providing regular updates on progress, risks, and migration readiness.
- Proactively identify risks, blockers, and dependencies, driving issues through to resolution.
- Maintain migration documentation including runbooks, RAID logs, cutover plans, and status reporting.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading large-scale infrastructure migration or integration programmes.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Active Directory, Entra ID, Intune, and core infrastructure technologies.
- Experience coordinating multiple teams and third-party suppliers within complex matrix environments.
- Strong understanding of networking, cloud infrastructure, identity, EUC, and migration planning.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Comfortable travelling extensively across Europe.
- Desirable experience in delivering M&A infrastructure integrations or multi-site transformation programmes.
- Knowledge of Azure Migrate, Azure Monitor, Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, ServiceNow, and tenant-to-tenant Microsoft 365 migrations.