We are looking for an experienced Azure Project Manager to support a 4-5 month contract opportunity in Toronto, Ontario. This position will guide cloud migration initiatives by aligning business needs, technical teams, and delivery timelines across complex enterprise environments. The successful candidate will play a key role in planning, coordination, reporting, and readiness activities to help ensure successful migration outcomes. This role is 1 day in office in Toronto, Ontario.
Responsibilities:
- Direct daily planning activities for Azure migration work, including timelines, key checkpoints, interdependencies, risks, and decision tracking.
- Partner with application owners, business leaders, Azure specialists, platform groups, and support teams to identify workload scope and migration needs.
- Monitor readiness across migration streams by confirming accountability, governance requirements, approvals, tagging standards, prerequisites, and cost allocation details.
- Organize migration wave scheduling and support cutover preparation, readiness reviews, go/no-go discussions, stakeholder updates, and follow-up activities after deployment.
- Develop concise status reporting for sponsors and senior leadership, highlighting progress, roadblocks, risk items, required decisions, and acceptance milestones.
- Coordinate operational handoff activities to ensure migrated services have clear support ownership, complete documentation, monitoring coverage, backup processes, and escalation procedures established.
- Demonstrated experience managing cloud-focused projects within large-scale enterprise environments.
- Strong business analysis capability, including gathering requirements and producing clear business requirement documentation.
- Hands-on understanding of Azure and broader cloud technologies, with the ability to coordinate technical and business stakeholders effectively.
- Background working with ERP and CRM platforms in consulting or transformation-focused roles.
- Familiarity with Microsoft technologies, including environments that may involve SharePoint workflows and related business systems.
- Knowledge of security considerations, governance controls, and readiness requirements associated with cloud migration initiatives.
- Technical awareness of client-side scripting and JavaScript concepts in support of application and platform-related discussions.
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