Migration Engagement Lead

Capability definition

Responsible for all technical deliverables related to solutioning, designing/planning, and executing a client’s IT migrations from point A to point B (includes migration across/within datacenters, server states, user bases, operating systems, HW/SW versions, platforms, workplaces, delivery teams, etc.). Provides overall design/engineering direction and support for migration across all towers to ensure the program meets the contractual obligations and operational standards, as well as the client’s business imperatives.

Responsibilities

• Manages the assigned resources, related to all Migration activities (design, solutioning, planning, discovery
& analysis, execution).
• Manages the migration design/planning and oversees execution, ensuring that all data required to plan/execute the migration is collected, validated, and updated in the SSoT (Single-Source-of-Truth) data repository to ensure all data is 3C-data (correct, current, complete) for all Source workloads (apps/servers) at all times; all move-groups, workload placement, migration methods, and migration tools are selected correctly; and all technical resources are engaged and tasked for execution
• Ensures the Migration Service Delivery Model standards, capabilities and best practices are used to optimize
the migration of workload
• Identifies changes/additions to Source environment, and triggers scope-change-control when/where necessary
• Ensures prerequisites are in-place, test-plans are in-place (technical & UAT), technical resources are available, and technical escalation paths are in-place for successful migration waves
• Triggers and manages technical escalations to ensure the right technical resources are brought-to-bear to resolve issues during the cutover window
• Ensures workload migration occurs on-scope, on-schedule, on-budget, on-quality and manages client/account communications as related to the migration
Responsibility details
• Detailed design/planning of migration scope, approach, dependencies, risks, wave schedule, resources,
and finances

• Wave schedules to include validation of:
o wave content, source/target mapping, server groupings/dependencies, clustering, etc.
o All prerequisites (upgrades prior to migrations, driver loads/updates, etc.)
o All components (servers, storage (local and leveraged), applications, users, etc.)
o All participants (DXC, Client, Vendors, etc.)
o Pre- and post- migration testing validation

• All types of migrations in-scope
o P2P, P2V, P2C, V2V, V2C, SameBox/Lift-n-Shift, etc.
o Within datacenter, across datacenters, from/to Cloud
o Replication via network

• Validation of all dependencies:
o Hardware build-out/configuration
o Business/application outage windows
o Resource allocations/commitments

• Generation of detailed playbook/checklist including:
o Key milestones
o Milestone owners
o Link of key milestones to owners’ detailed playbooks/checklists
o Expected start/end date/time for each milestone
o Dependencies and durations
o Critical-path with cushion time to address unforeseen issues and back-out
o Step-by-step detailed technical instructions
o Go/no-go criteria
o Critical-path flagging, with rollback/back-out procedures
o Severability of wave components (i.e., components that can be backed out, allowing remainder of wave to complete successfully)
o Change requests
o Steady-state turnover criteria
o Turnover to steady state
o Post-migration validation/audit (monitoring, BUR, etc.) by the corresponding teams
o Release of resources

• Projecting demand of all key resources
o All key milestone owners (DXC, Client, 3rd party Vendors) for all roles (Engineers, SAs, testers, Application Owners, etc.)
o Contact info for all participants
o Backups for all participants (turnover for windows > 8 hours, or successive)
o Escalation path for all participants
o Hardware
o Software
o Tools
o Outage/change windows
o Walk-through playbook/checklist with all key milestone owners prior to execution

Education and experience required
• 8+ years of relevant industry experience with between 3 and 5 years at the Master level with a consistent record
of significant contribution level, leadership and impact to the business, the company services technical community, and/or the industry
• Agile methodology
• KANBAN
• SAFE Agile methodology
o PMP certification is a plus
o ITIL certification is a plus

Technical Skills and Experiences:
• Meets degree educational requirements or has equivalent work experience for job code.
• 5+ years’ experience in technical IT & 3+ years’ experience related to datacenter migrations

• Has strong technical project leadership capabilities involving virtual teams across regions and time zones
• Able to deal with complex issues involving customers and vendors
• Prior experience with application or infrastructure development projects
• Ability to manage projects within scope of responsibility.
• Strong estimating skills
• Strong MS Excel skills
• Extensive data-management experience as it relates to server migration projects
• Required documentation (e.g., passport) and availability to travel to client site(s) globally as required

Additional skills desired but not essential:
• OpenText, Vmotion, Azure Migrate, AWS native tools
• MS SharePoint, MS Project
• Wintel, Linux, AIX, HP-UX, OpenVMS and their various versions
• ETL and/or data-mgmt tools
• SQL, Oracle

Non-technical skills and experiences:
• Fluent English
• German is a big advantage
• Demonstrates strong communication skills (written and oral)
• Has strong technical project leadership capabilities involving virtual teams across regions and time zones
• Proven ability to work in cross-cultural environments
• Strong client interfacing skills
• Demonstrated ability to aggregate, assimilate, rationalize, and normalize data from multiple sources
• Ability to interact with customers regarding business and technical information and issues
• Ability to work in international teams
• Ability to work under pressure, switching priorities and changing circumstances
• Demonstrates strong team building skills - ability to work as a team
• Demonstrate strong initiative to learn with minimal direction
• Self-starter
• Keeps the stakeholders informed using appropriate methods and media
• Shares relevant or useful information in a timely manner



WE OFFER:

• Basic salary ranging from 3,500€ gross/per month (depending on your experience and responsibilities)

• Employment contract for an unlimited period
• 400€ in Benefit Plus based on your choice (sport, health care, education, wellness, shops, etc.)
• Flexible working hours
• Work from home
• 3 paid sick days
• 3 extra vacation days
• Meal subsidy fully paid by employer
• 80€ for your tram pass (even if you work from home)
• Parking spot
• Employee referral program
• etc.