Migration Manager

Harvey Nash GmbH supports many of Germanys leading organisations to source, recruit and manage the highly skilled IT and engineering talent they need to succeed in an increasingly technology-driven world. We offer some of the most interesting and challenging roles where you get to work with the latest IT Technologies with some of the biggest clients in Germany.

For our client, a global company that provides a portfolio of IT services, software, and technology, we are currently looking for Migration Managers on a Freelance basis (m/f).

Project Start: ASAP
Project duration: 18 Months
Location: Hamburg (initially), then remote + travel

Tasks:
* Migrate users and applications into a new IT environment from a multitude of client site and environments
* Managing and distributing teams going off to collecting data on client sites
* Management of the teams not the technical execution
* Project management: scheduling, phase planning and coordination
* Communicate with client; detail timings, discuss system availability and unavailability and its impacts on daily business with users
* Representation/Business & CXO level communication
* Travel to client sites (25%)
* Run several projects in several phases at the same time

Skills:
* Experience in data centre and application server, user, and active directory migrations (300+ servers, up to 2000 users+)
* Project Management Skills (Prince2/PMI/APM/IPMA/PPM)
* Experience leading large, mixed (supplier/client) project teams
* People Management Skills
* Nice to have: Unix skills

Languages:
Written and spoken English and German know-how is demanded.

If you are interested in this vacancy, we would be pleased to receive your updated CV, availability and your hourly rate.

Reference: 342243

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.