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# Cloud Migration Program Manager

- **Company:** Kforce Inc.
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Cyber Security, Databases, Data Centers, RAID, Migration Manager, Systems Integration, Google Cloud, HybridCloud, Cloud Migration
- **Published:** November 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/10e2de82-72a9-4e72-8b4e-9f920326fb0d

## About the Role

* 10-15+ years of IT program and/or project management experience, including leadership of highly complex enterprise technology initiatives
 * Direct experience leading a large-scale enterprise cloud migration, data center migration, data center exit, or infrastructure modernization program
 * Strong experience working within Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and/or complex hybrid cloud environments
 * Demonstrated experience managing the lifecycle of cloud migration programs, including: Application discovery and portfolio assessment; Application and infrastructure dependency mapping; Migration readiness; Migration-wave planning; Cutover planning and sequencing; Testing and validation; Risk and issue management; Post-migration stabilization
 * Experience coordinating delivery across applications, infrastructure, networking, cybersecurity, data, cloud engineering, and business teams
 * Experience managing hyperscalers, systems integrators, consulting partners, and/or managed service providers
 * Demonstrated experience managing program budgets, forecasts, vendor spend, and financial performance
 * Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure and cloud concepts, with the ability to effectively communicate and coordinate with architects and technical engineering teams
 * Strong program governance capabilities, including RAID management, dependency management, milestone tracking, executive reporting, and escalation management
 * Strong executive communication and presentation skills with the ability to translate technical program details into clear business-level updates
 * Strong leadership, communication, facilitation, organizational, and problem-solving skills
 * Proven ability to manage large, complex programs involving multiple internal and external delivery partners
 * Ability to manage competing priorities and make sound decisions within a fast-paced, highly matrixed enterprise environment

## Description

Kforce has a client that is seeking a Cloud Migration Program Manager in Chicago, IL.

Key Tasks:

 * Provide end-to-end program leadership for a large-scale enterprise cloud migration and/or data center transformation initiative
 * Develop and maintain the integrated program roadmap, migration strategy, milestones, dependencies, and delivery schedule
 * Coordinate application discovery and portfolio assessment activities to establish migration scope, ownership, technical requirements, and migration readiness
 * Drive application and infrastructure dependency mapping to identify upstream/downstream systems, integrations, network requirements, data dependencies, and potential migration risks
 * Lead the development and execution of migration-wave plans, grouping applications and workloads based on business criticality, technical dependencies, migration approach, and organizational readiness
 * Coordinate detailed cutover planning and sequencing, ensuring application, infrastructure, security, network, database, and business teams are aligned prior to migration events
 * Manage program-level risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and critical decisions, proactively escalating items that could impact scope, schedule, cost, or business operations
 * Partner closely with cloud architects, infrastructure engineering, application teams, cybersecurity, networking, database teams, and business stakeholders to ensure successful technical delivery
 * Establish and manage program governance, including executive steering meetings, delivery reviews, RAID management, status reporting, and decision-making processes
 * Develop concise, executive-level reporting that clearly communicates program health, progress, risks, financials, dependencies, and decisions required
 * Manage complex relationships across multiple vendors, including cloud hyperscalers, systems integrators, managed service providers, and technology partners