Project Manager II

• *Role description** ***Who we are:***

At UST, we help the world’s best organizations grow and succeed through transformation. Bringing together the right talent, tools, and ideas, we work with our client to co\-create lasting change. Together, with over 30,000 employees in over 25 countries, we build for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process. Visit us at .

• **The Opportunity****:*

UST is looking for Senior Project Manager \- Data Platform Transformation Business MSD Services Function Service Innovation \& Transformation Duration Approximately 18 months Location\-India Position Summary: We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead the planning and delivery of the implementation and migration program. The role will coordinate cross\-functional teams across MSD Services and Corporate IT/Enterprise Data Platform teams to ensure the transformation is delivered to agreed scope, schedule, budget and quality. The role requires strong technology transformation and migration experience, with sufficient knowledge of cloud and modern data platforms to effectively manage technical teams, risks and dependencies. Key Responsibilities \& Deliverables Project Planning \& Governance • Own the integrated implementation and migration plan, including milestones, dependencies, resources and critical path. • Establish project governance, RACI, delivery cadence and executive reporting. • Maintain RAID, decision and change\-control processes. • Track delivery against scope, schedule, budget and agreed outcomes. • Manage resource and capacity requirements across participating teams. Implementation \& Migration Delivery • Coordinate readiness of the Data Platform for production workloads. • Lead planning and execution of D2i (device telemetry) and BI/data warehouse migrations. • Establish migration waves, priorities, entry/exit criteria and delivery milestones. • Coordinate activities across Prepare, Design, Plan, Migrate, Go Live and Aftercare. • Manage testing, data reconciliation, UAT, defect resolution and production readiness. • Own integrated cutover planning, migration runbooks and go/no\-go governance. • Coordinate legacy decommissioning following successful migration. Stakeholder \& Dependency Management • Act as the central coordination point across MSD Services, EDP/Corporate IT and technical teams. • Manage cross\-team dependencies, decisions, risks and escalations. • Facilitate planning sessions, delivery reviews and steering meetings. • Provide clear and concise status reporting to senior leadership. • Ensure business continuity and stakeholder requirements are considered throughout migration. Operational Transition • Ensure operational readiness is incorporated into migration planning. • Coordinate documentation, runbooks and knowledge transfer. • Manage handover to the long\-term Run \& Maintain / DevOps organization. • Ensure appropriate support and monitoring arrangements are established before go\-live. Key Skills \& Experience Essential • 8\+ years project/program management experience delivering complex enterprise technology transformations. • Demonstrated experience leading data, cloud, data warehouse or application migration programs. • Strong project planning, critical\-path, dependency and risk\-management skills. • Experience managing multi\-workstream programs with distributed/onshore\-offshore delivery teams. • Strong financial, resource and delivery management capability. • Proven experience managing testing, production cutover and operational transition. • Strong stakeholder management across business, engineering and enterprise IT organizations. • Ability to drive accountability and delivery across teams without direct organizational authority. Technical Knowledge Sufficient technical knowledge to effectively manage and challenge engineering teams, preferably covering: • Modern data platforms / Lakehouse architecture. • Databricks and AWS or comparable technologies. • Data lakes, data warehouses and ETL/ELT. • Data migration, testing and reconciliation. • CI/CD and DevOps. • Data governance, security and data quality. Technical architecture or engineering expertise is not required; the role is accountable for successful program delivery. Key Measures of Success • Delivery against agreed scope, schedule and budget. • Successful migration of D2i and BI workloads. • Predictable milestones, resource requirements and financial forecasts. • Effective management of cross\-team dependencies and risks. • Production cutovers with minimal business/customer disruption. • Successful operational handover and knowledge transfer. • Controlled retirement of legacy capabilities following migration. Preferred Qualifications • Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience. • PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent project\-management certification preferred. • Agile / SAFe experience desirable. • Previous experience delivering a major data\-platform or cloud transformation within a large global organization strongly preferred.

• **What we believe****:*

• We’re proud to embrace the same values that have shaped UST since the beginning. Since day one, we’ve been building enduring relationships and a culture of integrity. And today, it's those same values that are inspiring us to encourage innovation from everyone, to champion diversity and inclusion and to place people at the centre of everything we do.*

• **Humility:***

• We will listen, learn, be empathetic and help selflessly in our interactions with everyone.*

• **Humanity:***

• Through business, we will better the lives of those less fortunate than ourselves.*

• **Integrity:***

• We honour our commitments and act with responsibility in all our relationships.*

• **Equal Employment Opportunity Statement***

• UST is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences, such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, religion, or sexual orientation.*

• All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, colour, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.*

• UST* *reserves the right to periodically redefine your roles and responsibilities based on the requirements of the organization and/or your performance.*

• *Skills**

AWS, Agile, Application Migration, Cloud Data Warehousing,

• *Databricks** **AWS** or comparable cloud technology **Lakehouse / Data Lakes****Data Warehouses** **ETL/ELT**

• *About UST**

UST is a global digital transformation solutions provider. For more than 20 years, UST has worked side by side with the world’s best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people and led by purpose, UST partners with their clients from design to operation. With deep domain expertise and a future\-proof philosophy, UST embeds innovation and agility into their clients’ organizations. With over 30,000 employees in 30 countries, UST builds for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process.