Financial Services - Data Center Infrastructure & Migration - Tech Consulting - Manager - NYC

The opportunity

We are seeking a manager who has led complex data center (including co-lo) and Cloud infrastructure transformation or migration programs in financial services or a similarly controlled environment. The individual must understand the infrastructure stack, the information required to move business-critical workloads safely, and the governance needed to coordinate facilities, network, compute, storage, applications, cyber, recovery and operations. This is not a general PMO position.

The work is focused primarily on banking, capital markets, insurance and payments clients. Selected assignments may include other highly regulated or mission-critical organizations where resilience, control, and disciplined execution are central to the client's agenda.

Your key responsibilities

• Lead assessment of data center and Cloud hosted compute, virtualization, storage, network, load balancing, DNS/IPAM, backup, recovery, monitoring, security, platform and support dependencies.
• Define or validate hosting, workload-placement, consolidation, exit and migration strategies across enterprise-owned data centers, colocation and cloud environments.
• Direct discovery, CMDB reconciliation, dependency mapping, disposition decisions, migration-wave design, and detailed cutover planning.
• Establish migration-factory and control-tower governance, including entry/exit criteria, wave plans, readiness evidence, RAID management, decision forums and executive reporting.
• Lead planning for virtualization, physical, platform, storage, network, database and application moves, including rollback and continuity requirements.
• Drive go/no-go decisions based on testing, connectivity, replication, security, observability, support coverage, recovery, business validation and change approvals.
• Oversee cutover command, escalation, validation, hypercare, transition to operations, exit and decommission tracking.
• Connect data center capacity, rack/room readiness, network availability and facility commissioning milestones to migration sequencing.
• Advise leaders on service continuity, operational resilience, recovery objectives, concentration risk, dependencies and trade-offs.
• Lead EY and client teams, economics, quality, methods, accelerators, proposals and market development.

Required experience and qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or related discipline.
• At least 7 years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, data center or Cloud transformation, migrations, operations, resiliency or technology consulting.
• Leadership on at least one complex Cloud or data center consolidation, exit, colocation move or infrastructure migration involving business-critical workloads.
• Strong working knowledge across multiple infrastructure domains and the ability to identify cross-stack dependencies and operational risks.
• Ownership of migration governance, wave planning, readiness, cutover, rollback, hypercare and transition to operations.
• Public-cloud migration experience is relevant and is a substitute for data center infrastructure migration, consolidation and exit experience although experience with both is preferred
• Experience communicating with senior technology, risk, business and operations stakeholders in a controlled change environment.

Required software and technical tooling

• Hands-on experience using ServiceNow CMDB/ITSM/ITOM, BMC Helix or equivalent to validate configuration data, service relationships, change records, incidents and ownership.
• Practical use of discovery and dependency data from ServiceNow Discovery/Service Mapping, Device42, BMC Discovery, Dynatrace, AppDynamics or equivalent, including reconciliation and data limitations.
• Working knowledge of VMware vCenter and virtualization migration concepts; VMware HCX, vMotion/Live Migration or equivalent experience is preferred where applicable.
• Experience with Azure Migrate, AWS Migration Hub/Application Discovery Service or equivalent is preferred but does not replace data center migration experience.
• Applied use of Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, Microsoft Project or Smartsheet to manage waves, dependencies, change, defects, readiness and cutover actions.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; working use of Visio or equivalent for dependency, wave, network or operating-model views. Power BI is preferred for control-tower reporting.
• Exposure to monitoring/observability, backup/recovery, IPAM/DNS, network management and automation tooling sufficient to evaluate readiness and coordinate specialists.

AI-enabled delivery

• Experience applying Microsoft Copilot, GitHub Copilot or comparable enterprise AI tools to support infrastructure analysis, dependency review, migration planning, documentation, reporting, testing support or workflow automation is preferred.
• Ability to demonstrate validation, traceability, confidentiality controls, and professional judgment when using AI-generated outputs in a regulated environment.

Preferred experience

• Banking, capital markets, insurance or payments infrastructure with stringent availability, latency, recovery or change-control requirements.
• Mainframe and distributed infrastructure, storage replication, network segmentation, load balancing, database, or middleware migration.
• Operational resilience, business continuity, disaster recovery, cyber recovery, third-party risk or regulatory remediation.
• Colocation transition coordinated with facility build, commissioning, rack integration and circuit delivery.
• Relevant credentials such as PMP, ITIL, SAFe, Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) or infrastructure architecture certifications are preferred but not required.

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure and the dependencies between applications, platforms, facilities, and operations.
• Ability to manage risk and service continuity within large-scale migration and modernization programs.
• Ability to translate technical findings into practical decisions for business and technology stakeholders.
• Experience coordinating multiple workstreams, teams and vendors in controlled environments.
• Clear stakeholder management and communication across technical, operational, and executive audiences.
• Practical problem-solving skills and sound delivery judgment in complex migration environments.

What we offer you
At EY, we harness our collective strength to empower you to shape your future with confidence through professional growth, personal fulfillment and an inclusive culture. Learn more at ey.com/us/careers.

• We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business.  The base salary range for this job is: 
• • New York City, Boston, and Washington DC Metro Areas, Washington State, and Southern California offices – $166,900 to $278,100
  • Bay Area California offices – $173,800 to $289,700
  • All other offices locations in the US, including Sacramento – $139,100 to $254,900
• Individual salaries within these ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography.  In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.
• Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.                                              

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